This is a time that calls for extreme restraint. In a world of outright aggression and violence there can be no winners. To respond to violence with counter-violence only throws oil on the fire.

We need to be sincere in our practice, but at the same time we can't take ourselves too seriously.

We don't want to go to heaven. We want to be reborn so that we can keep going and realize the dharma so we can benefit other beings, endlessly. It's a very different thing.

The real spiritual power is enabling beings to realize the nature of the mind. That's the power of Buddha activity.

First you have to help yourself.

Until you are open, you cannot receive.

Our relative being is what rules our relative world.