I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.
The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience.
Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace.
There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.
Children are our greatest untapped resource.
The only clear thing is that we humans are the only species with the power to destroy the earth as we know it. The birds have no such power, nor do the insects, nor does any mammal. Yet if we have the capacity to destroy the earth, so, too, do we have the capacity to protect it.