The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger.

We are social animals. Others' suffering is ultimately your suffering; their happiness is ultimately your happiness.

The practice of love can be expressed in one sentence: 'Do not harm others.'

One Mongolian leader became a very, very brutal dictator and eventually became a murderer. Previously, he was a monk, and then he became a revolutionary. Under the influence of his new ideology, he actually killed his own teacher. Pol Pot's family background was Buddhist. Whether he himself was a Buddhist at a young age, I don't know. Even Chairman Mao's family background was Buddhist. So one day, if the Dalai Lama becomes a mass murderer, he will become the most deadly of mass murderers.

Happiness in simplicity can be achieved with a flexible mindset and nine hours sleep each night.

Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

I would like to explain the meaning of compassion, which is often misunderstood. Genuine compassion is based not on our own projections and expectations, but rather on the rights of the other: irrespective of whether another person is a close friend