Even if you only stop and focus on your breathing for a few breaths, or for a minute or two, its very valuable.

My actions are my only true belongings.

In every country in the world, killing human beings is condemned. The Buddhist precept of non-killing extends even further, to include all living beings.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

We may not have done anything but when we are relaxed, when we are peaceful, when we are able to smile and not to be violent in the way we look at the system, at that moment there is a change already in the world.

The practice of Zen is to eat, breathe, cook, carry water, and scrub the toilet — to infuse every act of body, speech, and mind — with mindfulness, to illuminate every leaf and pebble, every heap of garbage, every path that leads to our mind's return home.

Before you do something to help, your presence already can bring some relief.