Sometimes, whether a desire is excessive or negative depends on the circumstances or society in which you live in.

Try to improve. Don't expect too much, but don't feel discouraged either; keep up your enthusiasm; you will make progress.

As people alive today, we must consider future generations: a clean environment is a human right like any other. It is therefore part of our responsibility toward others to ensure that the world we pass on is as healthy, if not healthier, than we found it.

If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims.

The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth.

Self-rule means that China must stop its intensive effort to colonize Tibet with Chinese settlers and must allow Tibetans to hold responsible positions in the government of Tibet.

There must be a way of promoting human values without involving religion, based on common sense, experience and recent scientific findings.