Buddhism has to do with your daily life, with your suffering and with the suffering of the people around you.

Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.

If you do not give right attention to the one you love, it is a kind of killing. When you are in the car together, if you are lost in your thoughts, assuming you already know everything about her, she will slowly die.

With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

In April, we cannot see sunflowers in France, so we might say the sunflowers do not exist. But the local farmers have already planted thousands of seeds, and when they look at the bare hills, they may be able to see the sunflowers already. The sunflowers are there. They lack only the conditions of sun, heat, rain and July. Just because we cannot see them does not mean that they do not exist.

The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.

We try to live every moment like that, dwelling peacefully in the present moment, and respond to events with compassion.