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

In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.

Meditation is offering your genuine presence to yourself in every moment.

When we shout at the oak tree, the oak tree is not offended. When we praise the oak tree, it doesn't raise its nose. We can learn the Dharma from the oak tree; therefore, the oak tree is part of our Dharmakaya. We can learn from everything that is around, that is in us.

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena. To see one in all and all in one is to break through the great barrier which narrows one's perception of reality.

To develop understanding, you have to practice looking at all living things with the eyes of compassion.