To be a leader you must be able to create positive change.
It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha's discovery was happiness and bliss.
The tradition of nonviolence, optimism, concern for the individual, and unconditional compassion that developed in Tibet is the culmination of a slow inner revolution, a cool one, hard to see, that began 2,500 years ago with the Buddha's insight about the end of suffering. What I have learned from these people has forever changed my life, and I believe their culture contains an inner science particularly relevant to the difficult time in which we live.
The Buddhists think that, because we've all had infinite previous lives, we've all been each other's relatives. Therefore all of you, in the Buddhist view, in some previous life. . . have been my mother - for which I do apologize for the trouble I caused you.
Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the greatest teachers of our time. He reaches from the heights of insight down to the deepest places of the absolutely ordinary.
If you love your enemy, that means you want your enemy to be happy.
Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal, something we want to become.
I'm of the opinion that life doesn't always tie up neatly at the end of the episode.
At the end of the day, you want to be always the one that's one step ahead of everybody, and when it comes to hip-hop, culture and art, you want to be that signature guy.
A scientist builds in order to learn; an engineer learns in order to build.
Damn it, nobody knows what is beautiful and what is not. They do not understand new things.