Take the example of people who are being most unrealistic - people who are beating monks to death and torturing them. Why shouldn't you be angry or hate that person? Well, the person who is doing that is very unhappy. They are being ordered by a higher-up.

More than whether you live or die, it's how you are living or dying that is important.

Take the example of people who are being most unrealistic - people who are beating monks to death and torturing them. Why shouldn't you be angry or hate that person? Well, the person who is doing that is very unhappy. They are being ordered by a higher-up.

Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal, something we want to become.

Wisdom is tolerance of cognitive dissonance.

When all is lost, when all is let go of, when all is abandoned, what you are left with is an ocean of bliss.

The Chinese people absolutely need good spiritual examples. They also could use a citizen of their own, who is free and happy, and pleased with them, and represents them in a positive way to the world. Especially now that they're becoming this mega-power, and no longer known as a puppet in the game, or strictly business people.