Appreciate how rare and full of potential your situation is in this world, then take joy in it, and use it to your best advantage.

I want to show that there are indeed some universal ethical principles which could help everyone to achieve the happiness we all aspire to.

When you hate someone intensely, 80% of what you think is delusion.

A good motivation is what is needed: compassion without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters and respecting their human rights and dignities. That we humans can help each other is one of our unique human capacities.

I am simply just one monk. That's all.

No material object, however beautiful or valuable, can make us feel loved, because our deeper identity and true character lie in the subjective nature of the mind.

If we can manage to refrain from harming others in our everyday actions and words, we can start to give more serious attention to actively doing good, and this can be a source of great joy and inner confidence. We can benefit others through our actions by being warm and generous toward them, by being charitable, and by helping those in need.