Attachment constrains our vision so that we are not able to see things from a wider perspective.

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

My overriding belief is that it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its very finality the death penalty contradicts this.

My message is the practice of compassion, love and kindness.

Even a small act of compassion grants meaning and purpose to our lives.

On the philosophical level, both Buddhism and modern science share a deep suspicion of any notion of absolutes, whether conceptualize as a transcendent being, as an eternal, unchanging principle such as soul, or as a fundamental substratum of reality. ... In the Buddhist investigation of reality, at least in principle, empirical evidence should triumph over scriptural authority, no matter how deeply venerated a scripture may be.

Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we diminish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones.