It is often said that the Buddha's teaching is only a raft to help you cross the river, a finger pointing to the moon. Don't maistake the finger for the moon. The raft is not the shore. If we cling to the raft, if we cling to the finger, we miss everything. We cannot, in the name of the finger or the raft kill each other. Human life is more precious than any ideology, any doctrine.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

Eating mindfully is a most important practice of meditation. We can eat in a way that we restore the cookie of our childhood. The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.

Without full awareness of breathing, there can be no development of meditative stability and understanding.

I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight... I have to deal with my anger with care, with love, with tenderness, with nonviolence.

The necessary condition for the existence of peace and joy is the awareness that peace and joy are available.

Each thought, each action in the sunlight of awareness becomes sacred.