The Heart of the Revolution: The Buddha's Radical Teachings of Forgiveness, Compassion, and Kindness

It is not the mind that is the problem; it is our lack of understanding that the mind is conditioned to deal with craving and aversion in particular ways. The mind is not who we are. It is just another aspect of living in a human body.

An action from a confused and suffering being in the past doesn’t represent who that being is forever; it is only an expression of that being’s suffering.

The piles result in five different aspects of life that we tend to cling to as our fixed identity or misidentity: the body itself, the sense impression or feeling tones of the body, the mind or objects of the thinking mind (which include thoughts and the roots of emotions),

Hatred never ceases by hatred But by love alone is healed. This is the ancient and eternal law.