The greater the force of your compassion, the greeater your resilience in confronting hardships.

If the basic human nature was aggressive, we would have been born with animal claws & huge teeth -- but ours are very short, very pretty, very weak! That means we are not well equipped to be aggressive beings. Even the size of our mouth is very small. So I think the basic nature of human beings should be gentle.

Don't use Buddhism to become a Buddhist. Use Buddhism to become better at whatever else in your life you are doing already.

Like the lotus which thrives in mud, the potential for realization grows in the rich soil of everyday life

Forgiveness doesn't mean forget what happened. If something is serious and it is necessary to take counter-measures, you have to take counter-measures.

We believe in self creation. That's why Buddhists believe in the Four Noble Truths.

Morally speaking, we should be concerned for our whole environment.