If you have a friend who suffers, you have to help him.«My dear friend, you are on safe ground. Everything is okay now. Why do you continue to suffer? Don't go back to the past. It's only a ghost; it's unreal». And whenever we recognize that these are only movies and pictures, not reality, we are free. That is the practice of mindfulness.

Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself

Preventing war is much better than protesting against the war. Protesting the war is too late.

The Noble Eight-Fold Path is the path of living in awareness. Mindfulness is the foundation. By practicing mindfulness, you can develop concentration, which enables you to attain understanding. Thanks to right concentration, you realize right awareness, thoughts, speech, action, livelihood and effort. The understanding which develops can liberate you from every shackle of suffering and give birth to true peace and joy.

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.

We inter-breath with the rain forests, we drink from the oceans. They are part of our own body.