Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything.

It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.

How do you want to create peace, if there is no peace inside yourselves?

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available - more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more.

There may be a time when a country will have to wake up from a vision of happiness, when they have to realize that theirs is not the perfect idea, that there are many aspects that do not correspond to the reality of what is there, the real need and aspirations of the people.

We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.