Sometimes Religion Becomes Yet Another Source For

I Don't Know Whether The Universe, With Its Countless Galaxies, Stars And Planets, Has A Deeper Meaning Or Not, But At The Very Least, It Is Clear That We Humans Who Live On This Earth Face The Task Of Making A Happy Life For Ourselves. Therefore, It Is Important To Discover What Will Bring About The Greatest Degree Of Happiness.

We Need To Learn How To Want What We Have Not To Have What We Want In Order To Get Steady And Stable Happiness

In Today's Highly Interdependent World, Individuals And Nations Can No Longer Resolve Many Of Their Problems By Themselves. We Need One Another. It Is Our Collective And Individual Responsibility To Protect And Nurture The Global Family, To Support Its Weaker Members, And To Preserve And Tend To The Environment In Which We All Live.

There Is A True Feminist Movement In Buddhism That Relates To The Goddess Tārā. Following Her Cultivation Of Bodhicitta, The Bodhisattva's Motivation, She Looked Upon The Situation Of Those Striving Towards Full Awakening And She Felt That There Were Too Few People Who Attained Buddhahood As Women. So She Vowed, 'i Have Developed Bodhicitta As A Woman. For All My Lifetimes Along The Path I Vow To Be Born As A Woman, And In My Final Lifetime When I Attain Buddhahood, Then, Too, I Will Be A Woman.'

Forgiveness Is The Most Effective Way Of Dealing With Arguments; Altruism And Forgiveness Bring Humanity Together So That No Conflict, However Serious, Will Go Beyond The Bounds Of What Is Truly Human.