That was my real education in the world - I learned politics, the social and cultural life of India, Hindu tradition and religion, and Buddhism.

I want New Story education to be skilling human beings and young people to provide basic human needs. Technology and all other things are icing on the cake.

We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused

If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.

The scientific world, the materialistic world, the world of commerce, the world of business, the world of individualism, the world of capitalism, world of communism - all these worlds are the old story now. Where we think we exploit nature, we exploit people. Market rules, profit rules, money rules. We work for name, fame, power, money, profit. That's the old story.

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

Quality and perfection are achieved with time. You do not create a perfect painting or a perfect poem by hurrying. Time is always coming.