Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

Along with selfishness, anger is one of the most serious problems facing the world today

We have made a great effort to maintain all levels of Buddhist education; it has helped us have a kind of renaissance, really.

In our own case, we don't consider the loss of a monastery or a monument the end of our entire way of life. If one monastery is destroyed, sometimes it happens.

When young we have a vivid sense of basic values like trust and warm-heartedness, which we tend to neglect in today's competitive world as we grow up, yet from birth we all have a need for affection. The emotions we experience today have not changed much over the last few thousand years, but the interest increasing numbers of people are showing in their inner world and how their emotions work is a sign of maturity.

As you breathe in, cherish yourself. As you breathe out, cherish all Beings.

We need an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and those without.