You could then use the dream to learn more about yourself, others, the world, and the nature of life. You can come awake in the matrix and realize yo….

If your enemy is happy, then why would they be bothered to be your enemy? Being someone's enemy is no fun. It does not add to happiness..

People in Tibet have an expression. When you reach a certain degree of venerableness and age, and people ask, "How are you?," there is an expression ….

When people are dying, they call their old enemies and try to forgive them and try to be forgiven by them. They call their old friends and affirm the….

This question, Is loving your enemy a life practice?, I like that question. It is a life practice, certainly, for everyone. It relates to the idea of….

What makes me fully alive is anything. Really just being alive is enough..

All the things you need in the death transition, you need now in the life transition, because life is a transition, it is a between state. Therefore,….

People are afraid that if they let go of their anger and righteousness and wrath, and look at their own feelings-and even see the good in a bad perso….

Therefore, what you do as a spiritual practitioner in this life shapes that. To seek and find this beautiful, continuing existence, where there can b….

Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like. Remember, it is not the size of a gift, it is its quality ….

Those caught in the cycle of self-concern suffer helplessly, while the compassionate are more free and, implicitly, more happy..

I think about the trends at the moment in the planet and how it looks for my grandchildren. I don't panic over it, even though rationally maybe I sho….

The Buddhists think that, because we've all had infinite previous lives, we've all been each other's relatives. Therefore all of you, in the Buddhist….

So that's the process of understanding, and through that process, if you have a deep realization of the selflessness in regard to your absolute self,….

Within our own society, we jail more prisoners than any other country in the world, 85 percent of them people of nonwhite races — red, black, brown, ….

If someone gets a bigger house, does that automatically make them happy? Maybe for a second. But then they worry about the bigger house and how to ta….

In Buddhism, we say reincarnation is the conscious taking of rebirth by a Bodhisattva, or by a high being, whereas rebirth, is what most people do. R….

Whether or not enlightenment is a plausible goal for us is a vital question for our lives. If it is possible for us to attain such perfect enlightenm….

I think humans will find their humanity sometime, somehow..

The person who is tormenting the Tibetans feels they have to get rid of the Tibetans in order to be happy..

A possession can't make you happy..