Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.
Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.
Happiness is the cessation of suffering.
I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.
If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.
If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.
When we have peace, then we have a chance to save the planet. But if we are not united in peace, if we do not practice mindful consumption, we cannot save our planet.
To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides.
Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.
Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.
One Buddha is not enough; we need to have many Buddhas.
Mother Earth is very talented. She has produced Buddhas, bodhisattvas, great beings.
Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.
Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.
In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living species are in danger.
If you are motivated by loving kindness and compassion, there are many ways to bring happiness to others right now, starting with kind speech.
We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.
Each time you look at a tangerine, you can see deeply into it. You can see everything in the universe in one tangerine. When you peel it and smell it, it’s wonderful. You can take your time eating a tangerine and be very happy.
You would not cry if you knew that by looking deeply into the rain you would still see the cloud.
When you look deeply into your anger, you will see that the person you call your enemy is also suffering. As soon as you see that, the capacity of accepting and having compassion for them is there.