Anything that is created must sooner or later die. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it..
I get up at sunrise. I'm a Buddhist, so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together, but then it's list-making time. I have ca….
By amending our mistakes, we get wisdom. By defending our faults, we betray an unsound mind..
Compassion has nothing to do with achievement at all. It is spacious and very generous. When a person develops real compassion, he is uncertain wheth….
I've noticed that the more flooding there is, the more bullshit gets talked. I mean it was very noticeable in the Asian tsumai. It happened around Ch….
There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But t….
Not just Christians and Jews, but also Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and the followers of many other religions believe in values like peace, respect, to….
In criticizing, the teacher is hoping to teach. That's all..
The Mind cannot be confused, but it is confusion..
When we bear witness, when we become the situation - homelessness, poverty, illness, violence, death - the right action arises by itself. We don't ha….
The Dalai Lama acknowledges that he's met Westerners who to some extent are clearly Easterners at heart, and he would never want them not to become B….
Buddhists have a long-standing tradition of believing that at some level we always know what the best course of action is in any given situation. We ….
The entire cosmos is a cooperative. The sun, the moon, and the stars live together as a cooperative. The same is true for humans and animals, trees, ….
Whatever we once were, we are no longer just a Christian nation; we are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and….
Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, thou….
Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter..
If you exchanged wedding vows, tape them to your bathroom mirror and read them aloud to yourself every morning along with the ritual brushing of teet….
The word mantra comes from two Sanskrit words man, ("to think") and tra ("tool'). So the literal translation is "a tool of thought." And that's how m….
We could become quite satisfied with ourselves because we are sitting in meditation and are endeavoring to practice the spiritual path. Such satisfac….
To believe straight away is foolishness, to believe after having seen clearly is good sense. That is the Buddhist policy in belief; not to believe st….
If we do not create inner peace, outer peace is not possible..