I would not be happy if I had not become a monk.

When you have a stomach ache you don't tell your stomach to go away.

Only the present moment contains life.

Happiness does not come from consumption of things.

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

We try many ways to be awake, but our society still keeps us forgetful. Meditation is to help us remember.

We have to understand in order to be of help. We all have pain, but we tend to suppress it, because we don't want it to come up to our living room. the most important thing is that we need to be understood. We need someone to be able to listen to us and to understand us, then we will suffer less, but everyone is suffering, and no one wants to listen. We don't know how to express ourselves so that people can understand. because we suffer so much, the way we express our pain hurts other people, and they don't want to listen.