If we take something to be the truth, we may cling to it so much that when the truth comes and knocks on our door, we won't want to let it in.

A bodhisattva is someone who has compassion within himself or herself and who is able to make another person smile or help someone suffer less. Every one of us is capable of this.

One day I saw a picture of the Buddha on a Buddhist magazine and he was sitting on the grass, and he was sitting on the grass, very peaceful, smiling, and I was impressed. Around me people were not like that, so I had the desire to be someone like him. I nourished that kind of desire until the age of sixteen, when I had the permission from my parents to go and ordain as a Buddhist monk.

Don't think you have to be solemn to meditate. To meditate, well, you have to smile a lot.

When you enter deeply into this moment, you see the nature of reality, and this insight liberates you from suffering and confusion. Peace is already there to some extent: the problem is whether we know how to touch it.

We need to move beyond the idea of 'environment' and fall back in love with Mother Earth.

You must be completely awake in the present to enjoy the tea.