True change is within; leave the outside as it is.

The Laws of Reasoning consist of the ground, the path, and the result. ...Suffering is in the mind. How we perceive happiness determines our suffering or not.

Looking at the pattern of our existence from birth to death, we can see the way in which we are fundamentally nurtured by other's affection.

What acts as a far more effective circumstance for generating compassion and what, in fact, rouses us from our comfortable meditation seat is actually seeing or hearing others - encountering others directly, not just conceptually in our imagination.

Once your mind is calm and full of love, there is no room for hatred or fear. Others will trust you because of your open heart.

True compassion is not just an emotional response but a firm commitment founded on reason.

I have found a much greater appreciation of Buddhism because I couldn't take it for granted here in exile.