Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.

When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by.

If it shouldn't happen, it wouldn't happen.

We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.

These days people don't search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living, raise families and look after themselves, that's all. To them, being smart is more important than being wise!

Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If you lift up the whole log, both sides come up at once. Which is concentration and which is insight? Just this mind.

You say that you are too busy to meditate. Do you have time to breathe? Meditation is your breath. Why do you have time to breathe but not to meditate? Breathing is something vital to peoples lives. If you see that Dhamma practice is vital to your life, then you will feel that breathing and practising the Dhamma are equally important.