When you feel anger arising, remember to return to your breathing and follow it. The other person may see that you are practicing, and she may even apologize.
At the moment of waking up, before getting out of bed, get in touch with your breath.
Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself.
If you really know how to live, what better way to start the day than with a smile?
Without collective awakening the catastrophe will come. I think people in the mass media, journalists, film makers and others, you can contribute to the collective awakening if you are awake and then your life will embody that awakening.
In Zen Buddhism, the greater your doubt, the greater will be your enlightenment. That is why doubt can be a good thing. If you are too sure, if you always have conviction, then you may be caught in your wrong perception for a long time.
May we awaken from forgetfulness and realize our true home.
Today, you can decide to walk in freedom. You can choose to walk differently. You can walk as a free person, enjoying every step.
They criticize the silent ones. They criticize the talkative ones. They criticize the moderate ones. There is no one in the world who escapes criticism.
When you enter deeply into this moment, you see the nature of reality, and this insight liberates you from suffering and confusion. Peace is already there to some extent: the problem is whether we know how to touch it.
Nirvana is the complete silencing of concepts.
Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.
Eating mindfully is a most important practice of meditation. We can eat in a way that we restore the cookie of our childhood. The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.
Maybe we have enough technology to save the planet but it is not enough because the people are not ready.
Our walking is not a means to an end. We walk for the sake of walking.
If things were not impermanent, life would not be possible.
That is why those who are not capable of being there in the present moment, they don’t really live their life – they live like dead people.
Be peace, don’t just talk about it.
When the energy of compassion and love touches us, healing establishes itself.
Knowing that anger makes me ugly, I smile instead. I return to myself and meditate on love.