Venerable Khangser Rinpoche

The first step in attaining happiness is to cultivate tranquility of mind. And how do we cultivate tranquility? We often tell people to “calm down,” but it doesn’t work if we don’t also tell them how to calm down. If you just tell yourself to calm down, without actually knowing how to do it, it won’t work. To attain inner tranquility, you have to start by reducing negative emotions and ways of thinking, and this has nothing to do with religion; whether or not you do it is entirely up to you.

By Khangser Rinpoche