Buddhist meditation doen't necessarily mean sitting cross-legged with your eyes closed. Simply observing how your mind is responding to the sense world as you go about your business - walking, talking, shopping, whatever - can be a really perfect meditation and bring a perfect result.

When you check your own mind properly, you stop blaming others for your problems.

Don't think that examining and knowing the nature of your mind is just an Eastern trip. That's a wrong conception. It's your trip.

There's a big difference between being able to explain religion intellectually and transforming that knowledge into spiritual experience.

We completely deny the existence of a self-existent I, or a permanent, independent soul. Every aspect of your body and mind is impermanent: changing, changing, changing.

Knowing your own mind is the solution to all our problems.

First of all, merely by living a simple life with a heart dedicated to overcoming self-cherishing, we automatically benefit others.