Allow situations in your life to become your teacher.

As Buddhism moved from one culture to another, it always adapted.

To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.

All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.

Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you could just contemplate the fact that there is a larger alternative to either of those, a more tender, shaky kind of place where you could live.

Just pausing for two to three breaths is a perfect way to stay present. This is a good use of our life. Indeed, it is an excellent, joyful use of our life. Instead of getting better and better at avoiding, we can learn to accept the present moment as if we had invited it, and work with it instead of against it, making it our ally rather than our enemy.

Tonglen practice begins to dissolve the illusion that each of us is alone with this personal suffering that no one else can understand.