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.

When we change our daily lives - the way we think, speak and act - we change the world.

If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper. Without a cloud, there will be no rain; without rain, the trees cannot grow; and without trees, we cannot make paper. The cloud is essential for the paper to exist. If the cloud is not here, the sheet of paper cannot be here either. So we can say that the cloud and the paper inter-are.

While drinking, while talking, while writing, while watering our garden, it's always possible to practice living in the here and the now.

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.

Just breathing and smiling can make us very happy, because when we breathe consciously we recover ourselves completely and encounter life in the present moment.

Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. Whenever your mind becomes scattered, use your breath as the means to take hold of your mind again.