The raft is used to cross the river. It isn't to be carried around on your shoulders. The finger which points at the moon isn't the moon itself.

One hour of compassionate deep listening can bring about transformation and healing.

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

Meditation is not to get out of society, to escape from society, but to prepare for a reentery into society.

If we practice mindfulness, we always have a place to be when we are afraid.

It's like a mother, when the baby is crying, she picks up the baby and she holds the baby tenderly in her arms. Your pain, your anxiety is your baby. You have to take care of it. You have to go back to yourself, to recognize the suffering in you, embrace the suffering, and you get a relief.

The root-word "buddha" means to wake up, to know, to understand; and he or she who wakes up and understands is call a Buddha. It is as simple as that. The capacity to wake up, to understand, and to love is called Buddha nature.