In accepting death as inevitable, we don't label it as a good thing or a bad thing. As one of my teachers once said to me, “Death happens. It is just death, and how we meet it is up to us.

Kaz's art is a powerful example of discipline and freedom. His classical calligraphy captures the inner movement and stillness of the brush and mind.

Yes, creation is moving toward us; life is moving toward us all the time. We back away, but it keeps pushing toward us. Why not step forward and greet it.

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

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

Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

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