Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death.

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.

No one is more worthy of your kindness and compassion than you are.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

We will not just say, "I love him very much," but instead, "I will do something so that he will suffer less." The mind of compassion is truly present when it is effective in removing another person's suffering.

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

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