In reply to the question, 'What is the best that people can possess, what brings them truest happiness, what is the sweetest of the sweet, and what is the pleasantest life to live?' the Buddha answered: 'Trust is the best that people can possess; following the way brings happiness; truth is the sweetest of the sweet; and the practice of insight is the pleasantest way to live.'
- Sutta Nipata

Sincere prayers

Let's pray for world peace with our
deepest sincerity, and resolve hatred
with compassionate action.

It does not matter whether you are a theist or atheist, what matters is sincerity, forgiveness, and compassion.
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Life has no whence; it is carrying forth, and carrying forth again. Death has no whither; it is carrying away; and carrying away again. Ultimately how is it? If the mind does not differ, myriad things are one suchness.
- Dgen, "Rational Zen"

He whose senses are steadied like stallions well-trained by the charioteer, his conceit abandoned, free of effluent, Such: even devas adore him. Like the earth, he doesn't react-- cultured, Such, like Indra's pillar, like a lake free of mud. For him --Such-- there's no traveling on.
- Dhammapada 7, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

Humanity in medicine

A culture of humanity is needed to promote
senses of mission and ethics in medicine.

If you worship those worthy of worship, --Awakened Ones or their disciples-- who've transcended complications, lamentation, & grief, who are unendangered, fearless, unbound: there's no measure for reckoning that your merit's 'this much.'
- Dhammapada 13, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

Spiritual disasters

Since there are relieves available, tangible natural
disasters are not of the most destructive and dreadful,
but intangible spiritual disasters are.

Many people are afraid to empty their minds lest they may plunge into the Void. They do not know that their own Mind is the Void. The ignorant eschew phenomena but not thought; the wise eschew thought but not phenomena.
- Huang Po, Zen Teaching of Huang Po

I believe there is an important distinction to be made between religion and spirituality. Religion I take to be concerned with belief in the claims to salvation of one faith tradition or another--an aspect of which is acceptance of some form of meta-physical or philosophical reality, including perhaps an idea of heaven or hell. Connected with this are religious teachings or dogma, ritual, prayers and so on. Spirituality I take to be concerned with those qualities of the human spirit--such as love and compassion, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, contentment, a sense of responsibility, a sense of harmony, which bring happiness to both self and others.
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Real Bodhisattvas

Real Bodhisattvas are those volunteers who give
their days and nights with the mentality of using
physical life to grow wisdom life.

Peace and blessing

Only by respecting and following natural laws
can one live in peace and blessing.

Winning gives birth to hostility. Losing, one lies down in pain. The calmed lie down with ease, having set winning & losing aside.
- Dhammapada, 15, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.