The importance of having a kind heart is something His Holiness would start with, talk about in the middle, and end with. He made precious human life, ethics, and everything else fit around the theme of having a kind heart, because…

Live as best as you can in the five lifelong precepts, praised by the Buddha as the basis of lay life. Take the eight one-day precepts at times and guard them dearly.

If somebody is telling me about some other people, “Oh they’re this and this,” I want to get to know them so I can see what they really are like. That is because in the religion I grew up with a lot of holy figures who had a lot of excellent qualities, but…

Idle talk occurs when we are just jabbering for the sake of jabbering, on and on about inconsequential things that often are objects of attachment for us. Like sales and where to buy cheap things. Politics can devolve…

From bad will come the long and unbearable pain of the three lower realms; from good the higher, happier realms from which to swiftly enter the echelons of awakening. Know this and think upon it day after day.