If we were able to control our desire there would be no basis to experience most of our daily problems.

We are always trying to escape from problems, even in our dreams. Buddhas teachings are the real method to solve human problems.

In reality, all the problems we experience day to day come from our self-cherishing and self-grasping misconceptions that exaggerate our own importance.

Buddha taught that the mind has the power to create all pleasant and unpleasant objects.

If we want to be free from problems, we must transform our mind.

Problems arise only if we respond to difficulties with a negative state of mind.

If we want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must learn how to control our mind.

Happiness and suffering are states of mind and so their main causes are not to be found outside the mind.

All functioning things our environments, enjoyments, body, mind and our self change from moment to moment.

Whenever we meet other people, instead of focusing on their delusions we should focus on the gold of their Buddha nature.

We should maintain renunciation the sincere wish to attain permanent liberation day and night. It is the door to liberation the supreme permanent peace of mind and the basis of more advanced realizations.

It often seems as if our mind is like a balloon in the windblown here and there by external circumstances. If we practice meditation eventually we will be able to stay happy all the time, even in the most difficult circumstances.

Bodhi means enlightenment and chitta means mind. Bodhichitta is a mind that spontaneously wishes to attain enlightenment to benefit each and every living being directly.

Compassion and wisdom are like the two wings of a bird with which we can fly to the state of full enlightenment.

By contemplating the many sufferings which humans experience, we should extend our compassion to animals.

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