Do something that scares you every day. You have nothing to lose but fear itself.

From a certain point of view our real enemy, the true troublemaker, is inside.

As people alive today, we must consider future generations: a clean environment is a human right like any other. It is therefore part of our responsibility toward others to ensure that the world we pass on is as healthy, if not healthier, than we found it.

Buddha was speaking about reality. Reality may be one, in its deepest essence, but Buddha also stated that all propositions about reality are only contingent.

Up to now my involvement in the Tibetan freedom struggle has been part of my spiritual practice, because the issues of the survival of the Buddha Teaching and the freedom of Tibet are very much related. In this particular struggle, there is no problem with many monks and nuns, including myself, joining.

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

The Dalai Lama should not be partisan either, should remain above.