Immeasurable love and compassion towards all beings
In Buddhism, when we hear about generating immeasurable love and compassion towards all beings, it literally means all beings without …
Wishing happiness for others
All the joy the world contains has come through wishing happiness for others. All the misery the world contains has …
Seeing dharma he sees me.
“Even if a monk should seize the hem of my garment and walk behind me step for step, yet if …
Be forbearing
The fool thinks one has won a battle when one bullies with harsh speech, but knowing how to be forbearing …
Push your body, speech and mind to virtue.
Think of your body as a servant or a thing to carry you about, Do not allow it to rest …
Whatever we have, wherever we are — that is the place we can start from.
Interdependence and emptiness show us that there are no fixed starting points. We can start from nothing. Whatever we have, …
Overcome the psychological and biological habits
“Theoretical understanding alone is simply not enough to overcome the psychological and biological habits that create so much headache and …
What Buddhists mean by ‘happiness’
“Gradually I began to recognize how feeble and transitory the thoughts and emotions that had troubled me for years actually …
How to deal with difficult people
“We have so many concepts about others, and sometimes even before we know that person, we’ve already given them this …
How should we understand the term spiritual teacher?
“How should we understand the term spiritual teacher?” the Karmapa questioned. “This person is not necessarily someone whose name is …