Sin contains its own judgement and punishment.

In the past, destruction of your neighbour might have been considered a victory, but today we are all interdependent. We live in a global economy; we face problems like climate change that affect us all. The 7 billion human beings alive today belong to one human family. In the context that others' interests are in our interest and our interest is in their interest, the use of force is self-destructive.

Friends, genuine friends, have much more to do with whether we have a warm heart, not money or power.

You are the people who are shaping a better world. One of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of compassion.

If you resort to violent methods because the other side has destroyed your monastery, for example, you then have lost not only your monastery, but also your special Buddhist practices of detachment, love, and compassion.

Once you encourage the thought of compassion in your mind, once it becomes active, then your attitude towards others changes automatically.

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.