If the world is crazy, maybe it needs a few sane people in the middle of it. Why do monks lock themselves up in monasteries? What's the good of solvi….

Do not speak unless you can improve on silence, said a Buddhist sage..

The practice is enlightenment. Some people find this idea not to their liking. They want to get enlightenment in a flash. This way they become attach….

You know, the very strength of science is that it keeps us from the errors of mythos, from getting committed to a set of memes that we adopt because ….

Without faith you can't see a miracle; you just see unexplained events..

I truly believe that I have been given a second chance at life. I never expected the results I have had..

Even without his robes an arahant is recognized simply by the effect his metta has in a crowd..

A few days ago Tan Casipo said to me, 'Some people come here with so much dust in their eyes it's unbearable to talk to them.' What does that say abo….

You cannot teach a bird to fly, only how to let go his branch and begin to fall..