Sangharakkhita

The only three things that matter in life.

The fact that right now someone is taking his first breath as someone else is taking his last makes me look at every sunset, at every baby’s smile and every dying face with wonder and an unspeakable intensity. It makes me enjoy my every teacup as if it was my very last, as if it was…

KAIZEN, the practice of invincible warriors.

There is nothing that can teach you KAIZEN, the art of having a strong resolve and purpose better than a river. A river does not follow a straight line. Despite its many detours, it has one single goal and nothing can stop its course, hasten its speed or make it flow backward. It…

The art of listening with the heart.

It takes about two years to learn how to speak, but for most people, it takes more than sixty years to learn how to be truly. silent.

A mouth may be closed, with a mental noise thundering inside louder than a marketplace tumult. That is why some people. need to…

Romantic love: a distorted reality.

There is no field where Reality is distorted and colored in pink than in romantic loves. Almost everybody supposes without proof that love will make them happy.

The belief that romantic love makes one happy is just that: a belief, not necessarily a fact. But it is…

The first African Buddhist monk

I was born in Rwanda, a tiny country in the heart of Africa. There is no single Buddhist temple, no monastery and no monks in Rwanda, where the percentage of Buddhist population is 0%.

My childhood was a happy one, until the passing away of my father, which occurred…