Mindfulness must be engaged. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what’s the use of seeing?
The roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives – the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and consume goods.
When our beliefs are based on our own direct experience of reality and not on notions offered by others, no one can remove these beliefs from us.
Preventing war is much better than protesting against the war. Protesting the war is too late.
The present moment is the only moment available to us and it is the door to all other moments.
Breathing in, I know I am breathing in. Breathing out, I know I am breathing out.
Being rich is an obstacle to loving. When you are rich, you want to continue to be rich, and so you end up devoting all your time, all your energy, in your daily life to stay rich.
When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.
If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.
If you’re a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism.
Anyone can practice some nonviolence, even soldiers. Some army generals, for example, conduct their operations in ways that avoid killing innocent people; this is a kind of nonviolence.
The electron is first of all your concept of the electron.
An oak tree is an oak tree. That is all it has to do. If an oak tree is less than an oak tree, then we are all in trouble.
Do not say that I’ll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive.
When it comes to health and well-being, regular exercise is about as close to a magic potion as you can get.
People kill and are killed because they cling too tightly to their own beliefs and ideologies. When we believe that ours is the only faith that contains the truth, violence and suffering will surely be the result.
When we are present, life is also present.
To meditate with mindful breathing is to bring body and mind back to the present moment so that you do not miss your appointment with life.
Because if the manifestations that happen in the present moment are beautiful and good, their continuation in the future will be also good and beautiful.
Water flows from high in the mountains Water runs deep in the Earth Miraculously, water comes to us, And sustains all life.