Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.

As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.

We are determined not to take as the aim of our life fame, profit, wealth, or sensual pleasure, nor to accumulate wealth while millions are hungry and dying. We are committed to living simply and sharing our time, energy, and material resources with those who are in need.

To educate people for peace, we can use words or we can speak with our lives.

Meditation is not to escape from society, but to come back to ourselves and see what is going on. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. With mindfulness, we know what to do and what not to do to help.

The sangha is a community where there should be harmony and peace and understanding. That is something created by our daily life together. If love is there in the community, if we've been nourished by the harmony in the community, then we will never move away from love.

You would not cry if you knew that by looking deeply into the rain you would still see the cloud.