It may be that many people believe that applying Buddhism in their daily lives means to regularly perform volunteer work, or to donate property, blood, organs, and so forth, as well as to engage in the various acts advocated by the “Buddhist Vehicle of gods and men”.

Although we cannot deny that this is also applying Dharma in daily life, that type of love and compassion is also possessed by other religious believers, and even by ordinary kind-hearted people in society.  However, if one does not have compassion, altruism and the mind of renunciation, this can only be considered to be the most basic conduct that a Buddhist should have.

~ Luminous Wisdom Book Series 7