Daily Life

If we are aware of the ten mental factors that are involved with every single moment of our experience, we can mold situations in such a way that they optimize the experience.

All of Buddha’s teachings are intended to help us overcome difficulties in life.

Using Buddhist logic can help us to overcome failure and ensure success, by using a realistic strategy based on reason.

We need to develop the determination to be free of our habitual routines that cause us stress and train ourselves in self-discipline, concentration, and discriminating awareness.

Dr. Berzin’s advice to Kalmyks on dealing with the massive changes in their lives resulting from the move from their traditional kibitkas (large ox carts with tents on them) to cities in standard flats.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama has been propounding nonviolence as a way to external as well as to internal peace all his life.

Buddha-family traits are factors that everybody has, which, when fully developed, enable everyone to become a Buddha. In this sense, we all belong to this one family.