I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend. This gives me a genuine feeling of happiness. It is the practice of compassion.

By being inattentive to the needs of others, inevitably we end up harming them.

Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

There can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality, oppression, environmental degradation, and as long as the weak and small continue to be trodden by the mighty and powerful.

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

Misunderstanding may arise by confusing the Buddhist and scientific definitions of death. Within the scientific system you spoke quite validly of the death of the brain and the death of heart. Different parts of the body can die separately. However, in the Buddhist system, the word death is not used in that way. You'd never speak of the death of a particular part of the body, but rather of the death of an entire person. When people say that a certain person died, we don't ask, "Well, which part died?"

On a certain day, month and year one should observe the ceremony of tree-planting. Thus, one fulfils one's responsibilities, serves one's fellow-beings which not only brings happiness but benefits all.