Communication will bring understanding and understanding will cause harmonious mutual relationships which can establish peace and stability.

In the Buddhist learning process, we say three stages. The first is hearing, the second is contemplation, and the third is meditation.

Training and education is one and the same: that is, to train the mind through a discipline in order to awake the inner intelligence of the individuals.

Every religion or every philosophy is an outcome of the human search for liberation.

There's not a higher stake than someone having to face their own death.

Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.

You're taught from the day you start medical school that you're a god, that you can have power over life and death. So when your life starts to crumble, and the highest power you see is looking back in the mirror - and you know that power is flawed - it is very hard to get past that.

The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.