A Positive State Of Mind Is Not

Here, The Certain Temple Rule, This Seems To Me To Have A Certain Responsibility To Look After The Well-being Of Society And Look After Buddhism And Culture. I Consider These Part Of The Practice Of Spirituality. There Is No Competition Between Spiritual Practice And Party Politics. That Is Outdated. We Already, Since 2001, Have Elected Political Position. My Position Is Semi-retired. I Am Looking Forward To Complete Retirement.

I Think Every Human Being, Born From Mother, And At Least The Next Few Years, You See, Received Immense Affection From Our Mother. So The Child's First Experience In This Lifetime At The Beginning, I Think That Immense Affection From Other Is In Our Blood. So Therefore, The Whole Rest Of Life, Other People Show You Smile, Genuine Sort Of Closeness Feeling. You Feel Happy. Even Animals Also Like That.

Of Course, When I Say That Human Nature Is Gentleness, It Is Not 100 Percent So. Every Human Being Has That Nature, But There Are Many People Acting Against Their Nature, Being False.

The Basic Condition Of Human Life Is Happiness.

My Overriding Belief Is That It Is Always Possible For Criminals To Improve And That By Its Very Finality The Death Penalty Contradicts This.