Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.

Fifteen years ago, a business manager from the United States came to Plum Village to visit me. His conscience was troubled because he was the head of a firm that designed atomic bombs. I listened...

If you do not know how to take care of yourself, and the violence in you, then you will not be able to take care of others. You must have love and patience before you...

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our...