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"We must look deeply. When we buy something or consume something, we may be participating in an act of killing. This precept [non-killing] reflects our determination not to kill, either directly or indirectly, and also to prevent others from killing."
"To meditate is to be aware of what is going on - in our bodies, our feelings our minds, and in the world. When we settle into the present moment, we can see the beauties and wonders before our eyes."
"If things were not impermanent, life would not be possible."
"'Emptiness' means empty of a separate self. It is full of everything, full of life. The word emptiness should not scare us. It is a wonderful word. To be empty does not mean non-existent. Emptiness is the ground of everything. Thanks to emptiness, everything is possible."
"With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment."
"Meditation is not to get out of society, to escape from society, but to prepare for a reentery into society."
"Happiness is the cessation of suffering."
"Breath is aligned with both body and mind and it alone can bring them together."
"At the moment of waking up, before getting out of bed, get in touch with your breath"
"If we have fear and despair in us, we cannot remove the suffering in society."
"The Buddha always reminds us that our afflictions, including our fear and our desiring, are born from our ignorance. That is why in order to dissipate fear, we have to remove wrong perception."
"Loving ourselves means loving our community. When we are capable of loving ourselves, nourishing ourselves properly, not intoxicating ourselves, we are already protecting and nourishing society."
"If the people who hurt us have anger or desperation within them then they suffer. When you see that someone suffers, you might be motivated by a desire to help him not to suffer anymore."
"What happens in the present moment? In the present moment, you are producing thought, speech, and action. And they continue in the world."
"I know that we do not know enough. We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality."
"When you climb a ladder and arrive on the sixth step and you think that is the highest, then you cannot come to the seventh. So the technique is to abandon the sixth in order for the seventh step to be possible. And this is our practice, to release our views. The practice of nonattachment to views is at the heart of the Buddhist practice of meditation."
"Compassion is our most important practice. Understanding brings compassion. Understanding the suffering that living beings undergo helps liberate the energy of compassion. And with that energy you know what to do."
"In every one of us there are good seeds and bad. We have the seed of brotherhood, love, compassion, insight. But we have also the seed of anger, hate, dissent."
"Happiness is the cessation of suffering. Well-being."
"To be free, first of all, is to be free from wrong views that are the foundation of all kinds of suffering and fear and violence."