Once you encourage the thought of compassion in your mind, once it becomes active, then your attitude towards others changes automatically.

To reduce destructive emotions we need to strengthen constructive emotions. For example, to counter anger we cultivate love and compassion.

My message is the practice of compassion, love and kindness.

There is nothing that does not get easier through cultivation. The buddhas of the past started out as ordinary beings. They were not buddhas in the beginning. The path to buddhahood is traversed only through gradually developing more and more courage and DETERMINATION -then it is attained.

Compassion instills a sense of calm, inner strength, and a deep confidence and satisfaction

I think governments can't do much.

Once a year go somewhere you have never been before.