Do not fight the reality with weak mind, because the more you do, the more you suffer. Instead, one should first cultivate a strong mind before taking on all suffering in life. Only then suffering be transcended and possibly transformed into happiness as well.

~ Depicted from "The Four Seasonal Quotes from Khenpo"

The Buddha said, “Human’s sense of sight, hearing and sense of smell are all inaccurate, neither are that of taste , touch and man’s consciousness.” If these senses were all correct, how would the path of the enlightened benefit anyone ?

~ Depicted from "The Four Seasonal Quotes from Khenpo"

Some say that Buddhism seeks happiness only for next life and none for this life. This is not true. Buddha just asked that we should not ruin our next lives for the pursuit of pleasure of this life, nor should we destroy our future path for the easy comport of today.

~ Depicted from "The Four Seasonal Quotes from Khenpo"

People are all afraid of suffering, want to avoid suffering and adopt every possible means to prevent suffering, but they only succeed in bringing more suffering upon themselves in the end. The Buddhist way is to know what suffering is, face it, overcome it and finally eradicate suffering altogether.

~ Depicted from "The Four Seasonal Quotes from Khenpo"

Our sense organ with their many flaws are like defective tools. It would be fundamentally wrong to ascertain the truth of life and the world through sense perceptions. What we should trust is the transcendent wisdom of the Buddha, instead of relying totally on our senses.

~ Depicted from "The Four Seasonal Quotes from Khenpo"

What we should repudiate are not view of the non-Buddhists or the atheists but our own attachment. Once attachment is eliminated, no amount of heterodox ideas can affect us anymore. To someone who has attained realization, those ideas, no matter how extravagantly they may sound, make no difference at all. And the way to completely eradicate attachment is by developing renunciation, bodhicitta and, most importantly, the view of emptiness.

~ Depicted from "The Four Seasonal Quotes from Khenpo"

To love family and friends is a lesser love. To love sentient beings is greater love. The nature of the lesser love is selfishness and hence the cause of all suffering and dissatisfaction. The nature of great love is dedication and hence be capable of generating  immense happiness and fulfillment. To exchange lesser love for great love is the right way for humans to find happiness.  

~ Depicted from "The Four Seasonal Quotes from Khenpo"

The Buddha did say that samsara is suffering, but it doesn’t mean that he denied the existence of joy and happiness in life, he just wanted to point out the temporary and relative nature of worldly happiness. One should not be so blinded  by such happiness as to forget the future.

"The Four Seasonal Quotes from Khenpo"

Life in essence is a book of truth. It tells of many truths through the events happening around us - the varying tastes of life associated with cyclic existence, the illusive and dream-like nature of all nature phenomena. But we never pay much attention to the actual state of things, hence remain ignorant to this day.

~ Depicted from "The Four Seasonal Quotes from Khenpo"