In recent years, it began to dawn on me that most Buddhist practices, such as those on devotion and loving-kindness, lead meditators through four distinct stages.

According to Buddhism, peace is our birthright.  It is inherent in our mind. 

If we are serious about fostering world peace, we must first understand, generate, and experience real peace in our own mental stream.

As long as they are still under the karmic influence, rebirth is the inevitable future for every ordinary being and even for some accomplished meditators.

Every being inherits such a buddha-nature and qualities.

The trainings on the path of virtuous deeds that generate peace, joy, and wisdom in our mind-stream are the indispensable means of uncovering our own enlightened nature and qualities,

Enlightened aspiration is the vow or commitment to dedicate one’s thoughts and activities to serving all beings without any selfish motivation.

Every positive or negative volitional act—mental, vocal, or physical—will produce its commensurate effects in the form of pleasant or painful results.

Unless one is omniscient or at least enjoys some degree of clairvoyance, no one can judge others.

At the end of the meditation session dedicate all the merit or positive karma, the deeds of the meditation and prayers, to others

The first step to bringing peace is not to try to eliminate all external hostile forces, which is impossible anyway, but rather, to work with our own mind.

When meditating, here is a way to bring your mind back to the body.

In meditation, we focus to retune and refine the mind and mental qualities

“Enlightened mind,” is the aspect of the mind that the Enlightened Ones, fully accomplished meditators, have realized.

In order to help others, first we must make ourselves into a proper tool for serving others by improving our own qualities.

If we do not have devotional trust, even if the Healing Buddha in person were standing in front of us, we would receive hardly any benefit.

Death can be a fearful time, because we are leaving behind our bodies and everything else that we know.