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.

Dignity and quiet joy in all that we do are the expression of perfect concentration and perfect wisdom.

For innumerable reasons, Mahamati, the Bodhisattva, whose nature is compassion, is not to eat any meat.

It is ignorance that smothers, and it is carelessness that makes it invisible. The hunger of craving pollutes the world, and the pain of suffering causes the greatest fear.

I teach about suffering and the way to end it

Letting go of our suffering is the hardest work we will ever do.

You must use the hook of precepts to quickly remove it.