"I am breathing in and liberating my mind. I am breathing out and liberating my mind." One practices like this.

To educate people for peace, we can use words or we can speak with our lives.

To be loved means to be recognized as existing.

Contemplating the bowl, it is possible to see the interdependent elements which give rise to the bowl.

If you get angry easily, it may be because the seed of anger in you has been watered frequently over many years, and unfortunately you have allowed it or even encouraged it to be watered.

If we are at war with our parents, our family, our society, or our church, there is probably a war going on inside us also, so the most basic work for peace is to return to ourselves and create harmony among the elements within us - our feelings, our perceptions, and our mental states. That is why the practice of meditation, looking deeply, is so important.

Compassion is our most important practice. Understanding brings compassion. Understanding the suffering that living beings undergo helps liberate the energy of compassion. And with that energy you know what to do.