In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. This is a helpful pointer for our everyday presence-practice. Can you catch yourself angrily defending your point of view or attacking the other person's? There's the ego.

Beings are owners of their action, heirs of their action.

At the bottom of things, most people want to be understood and appreciated.

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha is in our hearts. Buddha is in our mouths. Buddha is in our daily lives.

Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.

The only way to bring peace to the earth is to learn to make our own life peaceful.