Category: Quotes

[561] Being responsible for your state of mind, so as to train and transform your mind is the first step…

[551] Apathy is the sleeping of compassion. Bodhicitta is the awakening of compassion. [552] Relatively good physical medicine alleviates suffering….

[541] The unmindful confuse wants as needs. The mindful differentiate wants from needs. [542] When we learn none of the Dharma,…

[531] Compassion is always far from perfection if one is always reluctant to keep animals far from the mouth for…

[521] Why fret the under-challenging? Why fret the over-challenging? Why not simply face worthy challenges? [522] True compassion is towards…

[511] There is grief from losing the precious, and ironically no grief from not knowing the precious is lost. Then…

[501] No water pressure, no swim. No land friction, no walk. No air resistance, no flight. [502] With personal shamelessness, there…

[491] When we take advantage of one another, everyone eventually gets disadvantaged. [492] May we practise diligently to further purify…

[471] May there always be timely collective positive karma from more for timely positive weather for more. [472] Action due to…

[461] If we are somewhat reluctant to observe even the five precepts, we are somewhat reluctant to become better people…

[451] We are bound by vice. We are freed by virtue. [452] Even having the ‘best’ external critics is not…

[441] First, it is wisdom to watch yourself well, lest no one watches you, and you fall prey to your…

[431] Good efforts of the individual must never be belittled as good efforts of the masses only arise from many…

[421] If integrity has to be sustained by high rewards, such integrity is not very high in the first place,…

[411] To waste time is to waste life, but saved time not used well is still a waste of life….

[401] The systematic industrialisation of greed is the steady depletion of humanity. [402] Worse than being ignorant which is just…

[391] Vegetarianism is great kindness. Veganism is greater kindness. [392] When it comes to dilemmas of conscience, it is not…

[381] If you learnt nothing from your suffering, you suffered for nothing. [382] So long as we are not yet…

[371] More dangerous than one not knowing at all, is to think one already knows it all. [372] The meat…

[361] Try hard but not too hard. Take it easy but not too easy. [Walk the Middle Path] [362] A…