Buddhism is in your heart. Even if you don't have any temple or any monks, you can still be a Buddhist in your heart and life.

A teacher cannot give you the truth The truth is already in you You only need to open yourself – body, mind and heart- so that his or her teachings will penetrate your own seeds of understanding and enlightenment If you let the words enter you, the soil and the seeds will do the rest of the work

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.

We can help many people suffer less and realize a lot of happiness without being rich or influential. If love and compassion are in out hearts, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.

Happiness is not an individual matter.

The most important thing that we can do for the healing of our world is to hear inside ourselves, the sounds of the earth crying.