When our mind is calm, we’re better able to find peace of mind and live a joyful life.

According to Buddhist psychology most of our troubles stem from attachment to things that we mistakenly see as permanent.

Our greatest duty and our main responsibility is to help others. But please, if you can't help them, would you please not hurt them.

Material development alone does not yield genuine inner peace.

Up to now my involvement in the Tibetan freedom struggle has been part of my spiritual practice, because the issues of the survival of the Buddha Teaching and the freedom of Tibet are very much related. In this particular struggle, there is no problem with many monks and nuns, including myself, joining.

The proper use of our intelligence and knowledge is to effect changes from within to develop a good heart.

If we choose an external marker as the measure of our inner worth, whether it is the amount of money we make, or others' opinion of us, or the success of some project we're involved in, sooner or later we're bound to be battered by life's inevitable changes. After all, money comes and goes, and thus is an unstable source of self-esteem, an unreliable foundation upon which to build our identity.