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

If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, if you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness, compassion, and respect, then you can carry on any kind of work, in any field, and function more effectively.

It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.

A spoon cannot taste of the food it carries. Likewise, a foolish man cannot understand the wise man´s wisdom even if he associates with a sage.

If we can cultivate a concern for others, keeping in mind the oneness of humanity, we can build a more compassionate world.

The immediate source of a mind... must be a mind which existed before the conception took place; the mind must have a continuity from a previous mind. This we hold to prove the existence of a past life.

The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.