What you are today is the choice you made yesterday. – Tsem Tulku Rinpoche

Nothing in samsara is healthy. Blackmail samsara. – Tsem Tulku Rinpoche The quote above is extracted from a short teaching that Rinpoche gave to us earlier today. I love it because it’s so simple and logical, and yet subtly aggressive. Above all, it’s not that difficult to accomplish. I say ‘not that difficult’ because it […]

Do not PAY FOR HAPPINESS OR WHITE TEETH. One is free and the other doesn’t matter. Hehe. – Tsem Tulku Rinpoche

Reincarnation is knowing that death isn’t going to kill you. – Tsem Tulku Rinpoche

Seeing myself in others and others in myself…who could I harm, who could I exploit? – Tsem Tulku Rinpoche

I don’t believe in simple one-off solutions [in religion], like if you do good, you go to heaven. Because if that’s the case, why are our sufferings so complicated? – Tsem Tulku Rinpoche

If you’re brave enough to be sneaky, if you’re brave enough to lie, if you’re brave enough to steal, if you’re brave enough to be all that – then be brave enough to deal with things when the consequences come back to you – Tsem Tulku Rinpoche