Meditation is not to get out of society, to escape from society, but to prepare for a reentery into society.

If you are capable of brushing your teeth in mindfulness, then you will be able to enjoy the time when you take a shower, cook your breakfast, sip your tea.

Let us look at wealth and poverty. The affluent society and the deprived society inter-are. The wealth of one society is made of the poverty of the other. "This is like this, because that is like that." Wealth is made of non-wealth elements, and poverty is made by non-poverty elements. [...] so we must be careful not to imprison ourselves in concepts. The truth is that everything contains everything else. We cannot just be, we can only inter-be. We are responsible fo everything that happens around us.

Many of us worry about the situation of the world . . . We need to remain calm, to see clearly. Meditation is a means to be aware, and to try to help.

You have to do it by yourself. You can not do it alone.

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

Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death.