Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it ( Read more... )

Some students of religion postpone their lives and then wake up one day and say, "Wait a minute, here I am forty years old and I dont have a spouse or a career. What am I going to do when I grow up? They have let things back up as they wait to be enlightened, or to be settled in mind. This shows a misunderstanding of the nature of practice. Right ( Read more... )

Renunciation does not have to be regarded as negative. I was taught that it has to do with letting go of holding back. What one is renouncing is closing down and shutting off from life. You could say that renunciation is the same thing as opening to the teachings of the present moment.... Renunciation is realizing that our nostalgia for wanting to ( Read more... )

The fool who thinks he is a fool is for that very reason a wise man ( Read more... )

Awakening entails economic pursuits that foster self-respect and self-reliance and that serve to integrate, rather than disperse, the energies of the local community. From the perspective of the Dharma, economic goals include not only production and profit, but also their human and environmental impact. The conservation of material resources, their ( Read more... )

Why our society becomes chaotic and scary? It is because human minds lack contentment, mutual gratitude and care ( Read more... )

Ordinary life and Buddhahood have no distinction. Great knowledge is not different from ignorance. Why should one seek outwardly for a treasure, when the field of the body has its own bright jewel ( Read more... )

The emperor of China asked a renowned Buddhist master if it would be possible to illustrate the nature of self in a visible way. In response, the master had a sixteen-sided room appointed with floor-to-ceiling mirrors that faced one another exactly. In the center he hung a candle aflame. When the emperor entered he could see the individual candle ( Read more... )

I wandered for alms ( Read more... )

There are those who do not realise that one day we all must die ( Read more... )