Love and compassion benefit both ourselves and others. Through kindness to others, your heart and mind will be peaceful and open.

Peace and the survival of life on earth as we know it are threatened by human activities which lack a commitment to humanitarian values. Destruction of nature and nature's resources result from ignorance, greed and lack of respect for the earth's living things.

Compassion automatically brings happiness and calmness. Then, even if you receive disturbing news, it will be easier to take, as your mind is still.

Each of us has the potential to contribute... You have a great opportunity to make a new shape of the world.

To be extremely self-centred, only interested in your own satisfaction, always brings negative consequences in the long run.

It is felt that a disciplined mind leads to happiness and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering, and in fact it is said that bringing about discipline within one's mind is the essence of the Buddha's teaching.

The training of the mind is an art. If this can be considered art, one's life is art.