Life can be pleasant or miserable. To lead a fruitful life, and to make it positive, practice analytical meditation.

In most cases, my visits to the West are for promotion of human values and religious harmony.

Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free. True peace with oneself and with the world around us can only be achieved through the development of mental peace.

If you shift your focus from yourself to others, extend your concern to others, and cultivate the thought of caring for the well being of others, then this will have the immediate effect of opening up your life and helping you to reach out.

I could justify violence only in this extreme case, to save the last living knowledge of Buddhism itself.

We share the earth not only with our fellow human beings, but with all the other creatures.

Let us have that kind of effort from all, except those child or handicapped or too old. But the many people, they sort of have the opportunity to create trouble or to create a good thing, now should think more seriously, should not indulge any work to create more problems.