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

[Kaz] is a great scholar, very funny - a true man of no rank!

My work has been in the field of engaged Buddhism. That is my own practice, which began in 1965 that formed the base for the work I was doing in the civil rights and anti-war movement.

Buddhist practice is the grounding for this work, this life, this way.

Kaz came to Switzerland where I was teaching to share with me [Heart Sutra] wondrous insight. There he and I worked on this new translation - with my part being to help render it into a verse form that would be good to chant. Since I have worked with many dying people over the years and often share the Heart Sutra with them, I found this new version that we created together to be so much more accessible to those who were facing death.

No single answer can hold the truth of a good heart.

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