Life is learning how to deal with traffic. It requires patience, a good sense of timing, and sometimes not giving in to the traffic but reshaping your life.

A person who doesn't dress well, who doesn't spend time and attention with their physical being, has a very loose being.

The self plays among the waves of existence. It surfaces, it comes up for a while, and then it disappears again.

As Buddhist monks, our task is to bring ourselves resolutely more and more into light, to forgive and forget, to forget those who create problems for us because to remember them is only to keep problems is mind.

When you live a life devoid of ritual and convention, with honesty and self-effacement, then you are on the road to freedom.

Clothes can have a very refined vibration. An ochre robe can be extremely refined and so can a wonderful satin gown or a silk brocade coast.

Without humility, all spiritual progress stops.