Limitless like the ocean are your excellent qualities.

Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path.

One Mongolian leader became a very, very brutal dictator and eventually became a murderer. Previously, he was a monk, and then he became a revolutionary. Under the influence of his new ideology, he actually killed his own teacher. Pol Pot's family background was Buddhist. Whether he himself was a Buddhist at a young age, I don't know. Even Chairman Mao's family background was Buddhist. So one day, if the Dalai Lama becomes a mass murderer, he will become the most deadly of mass murderers.

To seek solitude like a wild animal. That is my only ambition.

The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life.

Looking at the pattern of our existence from birth to death, we can see the way in which we are fundamentally nurtured by other's affection.

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