When your mind is liberated, your heart floods with compassion.

While drinking, while talking, while writing, while watering our garden, it's always possible to practice living in the here and the now.

I am in the present. I don't think of the past. I don't think of the future.

Each time you look at a tangerine, you can see deeply into it. You can see everything in the universe in one tangerine. When you peel it and smell it, it’s wonderful. You can take your time eating a tangerine and be very happy.

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.

Even if we cannot be completely non-voilent, by being vegetarian we are going in the direction of non-voilence

Silence is essential. We need silence just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light. If our minds are crowded with words and thoughts, there is no space for us.