“Training and education is one and the same: that is, to train the mind...” — Lobsang Tenzin Quote

Training and education is one and the same: that is, to train the mind through a discipline in order to awake the inner intelligence of the individuals.

For the exploitation of human greed, they have devised comparison and competition. Right from childhood on, we are indoctrinated to compare and compete, and there is a word, a phrase: 'free and fair competition.'

In the Buddhist learning process, we say three stages. The first is hearing, the second is contemplation, and the third is meditation.

Everyone needs an open mind and an accepting heart. With a combination of these two aspects, you will be able to communicate sensibly.

What I try to capture as a writer is the feeling of being alive, of being awake.

I always have to have mascara; otherwise, I feel like I don't look awake enough. It's like, 'I have eyes now!'

Sometimes I'll do something when I'm tired at night, and it'll sound hot. But in the morning, when I'm wide awake, I'll listen again and think it's way off. Nobody else would notice it, but I'm like, I've got to fix that!

Like most millennials, I have the bad, anxiety-inducing habit of grabbing my phone in the morning and scrolling through social media for 15, 20 minutes before I'm fully awake.

I am kept awake by the list of possibilities for shooting more photos and deciding what I must prioritise next.