‘Compassion, love, kindness, a sense of brotherhood or sisterhood, a sense of altruism — these are key areas for human development in the future as well as today.’ Dalai Lama

‘I Mo Ko. I Mo Ko. What is this? What is this? When we practise hua t’ou meditation, we are simply trying to generate doubt: What is this? Sometimes the `this’ is crying, sometimes laughing, sometimes feeling depressed, sometimes being excited.’ Jisu Sunim

‘If a major fear or worry arises, tell it you’ll give it attention later. Remarkably, this works. The mind, like a restless child, often settles once it knows it will be heard.’ Everyday Buddhism

‘To experience the Buddha directly is to be fully present with what is, without clinging or resistance. It is to engage with the moment, each thought, each feeling, as an expression of the Dharma.’ Everyday Buddhism

‘Please consider this: right now, you have a body, a voice and a mind, don’t you? Of these, mind is the most important.’ Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

‘The easiest and most harmful place for practitioners to find themselves in is the discursive mind — discrimination, analysing, categorising this and that, good and bad, here and now.’ Jisu Sunim

I felt conflicted because there was a gulf between what I thought I should feel and what I was actually feeling. I should be grateful, I told myself, that I was a perfect match. It would significantly increase the chances that my brother’s body would not reject my...

When my niece’s invitation to her eighth birthday party said 1 p.m. at Skateland, I knew what that meant: Vietnamese Standard Time. Sure enough, my family strolled in late. Fifteen minutes late, to be exact. But that’s okay; by then, I’d already laced up my own...

Mindfulness brings many benefits, and perhaps the greatest of all is insight. Insight is knowing what is happening around us and inside us, why it is happening, and how to make it better.  These insights help us let go of the confusions and misunderstandings that make...

In September 2009, as back-to-school season raged around the nation, I found myself on the ledge of my eighteenth-floor apartment window, about to jump off. Looking at the Midtown Manhattan traffic below, I became aware of many stereotypes I’d been reduced to...