What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat

Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food.

If we had kept the vision of interconnectedness, we would not have created the kind of environmental crisis facing the world today.

It doesn't matter where or how it is grown as long as it is packaged in plastic, put on the supermarket shelves, and bought as a commodity. In the New Story food is not commodity. Food is sacred. We need to be connected with soil, with animals that we take care of.

If we go on using the Earth uncaringly and without replenishing it, then we are just greedy consumers.

All the big problems of the world today are routed in the philosophy of separateness and dualism.

It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads.