Calming the Fearful Mind: A Zen Response to Terrorism

Right Understanding involves understanding suffering and seeing what governments could do to make social justice, mutual respect, and tolerance a reality.

We all have to suffer less in order to restore some kind of balancewithin ourselves. Only then can we engage in meaningful and effective efforts to build peace in the world.

Despite what they sometimes believe, directors and actors aren't really concerned primarily with fame and wealth. The mind of love is very strong, and if they could touch this love, they would become bodhisattvas, and create films that lead people to awakening.

Only listen to and speak with people who nourish love and understanding in you, unless you are speaking with someone with the sole purpose of helping them to transform their suffering and violence.

Don't let your desire be small, it should be very great. If it is not a great desire you will be pulled away by many smaller desires.

Understanding suffering is the prerequisite to ending it. In order to understand suffering you have to practice deep, compassionate listening.

Meditation is no longer the work of individuals; meditation in our time should be a collective practice.

Appropriate political and social solutions can only arise when suffering is acknowledged and understood.

The Buddha is still helping us 2,6oo years later.