Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.

Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way.

Since we are already Buddhas, happy and suffering Buddhas, wise and confused Buddhas, we are already Buddha.

All are interconnected...the environment; rights of the dying; care of caregivers; education and medical care for peoples of the Himalayas; prison work; those living on the margins of society, particularly kids.

My test for veracity has always been: How this will settle with a person who is dying? Boundlessness seemed to me to open the door to the true nature of mind that is pointed to in the Heart Sutra.

For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind.

We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.