When you love someone, the best you can offer is your presence.

What happens in the present moment? In the present moment, you are producing thought, speech, and action. And they continue in the world.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

The bad things, don't do them. The good things, try to do them. Try to purify, subdue your own mind. That is the teaching of all buddhas.

Contemplating the bowl, it is possible to see the interdependent elements which give rise to the bowl.

Looking deeply into the wrong perceptions, ideas, and notions that are at the base of our suffering is the most important practice in Buddhist meditation.

Fear is born from ignorance. We think that the other person is trying to take away something from us. But if we look deeply, we see that the desire of the other person is exactly our own desire - to have peace, to be able to have a chance to live.