...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

All beings come from a mother's womb. We should have a clear realization of the oneness of all humanity.

Through meditative techniques, one can free the mind of delusions and attain what we call enlightenment.

One of the expressions of Western over-reliance on technology can be seen in the lack of patience in industrial society. When you deal with technology, everything happens at the touch of a button. This conditions you to become so impatient that when you have an emotional or personal crisis, you don't allow time for the solution to take effect. This leads to all sorts of rash responses, like quarrels, fights and so on.

If we try to secure the well-being of others, we will, at the same time, create the conditions for our own.

We need to find secular ways to cultivate warm-heartedness. We need secular ways to educate ourselves about inner values. The source of a happy life is within us. Trouble makers in many parts of the world are often quite well educated, so it is not just education that we need. We need to pay attention to inner values.