If you don't understand the Way as it meets your eyes, how can you know the Path as you walk?

- Shih-t'ou

I believe that to meet the challenges of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for oneself, one's own family or nation, but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace.

- His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Good friends, recite in unison what I say: I vow to save all sentient beings everywhere. I vow to cut off all the passions everywhere. I vow to study all the Buddhist teachings everywhere. I vow to achieve the unsurpassed Buddha Way.

- The Sutra of Hui-Neng, adapted from the translations by Philip Yampolsky and A.F. Price


When a person has lived properly and acted generously, he grasps the way things are. He is not dependent on attachments; he is free from anger and aversions; what he does becomes perfect action. The pureness of perfectly balanced action based on seeing the way things are--this is freedom and the ending of ignorance.

- Sutta Nipata


To disregard oneself, this is the best dharma. This is the best service to Buddha's religion. Practicing meditation for life is the best gift. To those sentient beings without protection.

- "Hundred Thousand Songs: Selections From Milarepa, Poet-Saint of Tibet"


Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion.

- His Holiness the Dalai Lama


You have always been one with the Buddha, so do not pretend you can ATTAIN to this oneness by various practices.

- Huang Po, Zen Teaching of Huang Po