Apparently, even non-Buddhist practitioners with some spiritual realization may still be confused about the workings of cause and effect, not to mention people without any right view or understanding. These non-Buddhist practitioners are usually well learned; some may even have acquired a certain clairvoyance regarding worldly matters. However, they jumped to conclusions based only upon what they were able to see—virtuous people taking rebirth in the lower realms—and from that formed the view that cause and effect could not exist. Then books were written and theories developed based on this conclusion, which gradually formed into a sect after attracting enough followers. This is how nihilism was established.

The Buddha instructed us to follow the middle way —to avoid extreme measures in any situation. We need not be resentful, disgusted, or pessimistic in life, but we should not see life as perfect either. Wealth and relationships are neither good nor bad on their own; whether they become good or bad depends on the mind. If we look upon wealth, relationships, and other worldly pursuits with equanimity, our life will be that much happier.

~Luminous Wisdom Book Series 9: The Significance of Buddhist Philosophy Today

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

When we are very attached to a person, however that person acts might cause us at times to be happy, while at other times it might make us sad. The possibility that we might experience pain is far greater than that of feeling happiness. After the relationship between two people breaks apart, and to the extent that they then become like strangers to one another, such attachment disappears and they are brought back to a state of peacefulness. On the other hand, there are many other things that we never seem to care about, and it is those very things that would probably bring us more happiness.

~ Luminous Wisdom Book Series 10

We never believe, however, that this world is arising and ceasing moment to moment, but assume that time runs through the past and the future. We always consider getting off work and going home to be two different things. We never think that the only time we have is one ten thousandth of a second, and neither do we believe that this world is only one ten thousandth of a second. The reason we are unable to observe this with our naked eyes is because objects arise and cease extremely quickly.

We also cannot gather the past, present and future into the same point in time and space. If the past, present and future happened in that way, our concept of time would be mistaken. Then yesterday, today and tomorrow could also be gathered into the same point in time and space.  If such were to happen, our concept of time again would be in error.  Therefore，we live in a dream-like world.

~ Luminous Wisdom Book Series 3: The Illusory World

According to the sutras, great merit and virtue may be obtained by doing good deeds on ordinary auspicious days, and this is especially so during the four festivals. Doing any good deeds then such as chanting, accumulating prostrations, making offerings, offering vegetarian meals to the ordained sangha, keeping precepts, and practicing compassion and bodhicitta can ensure a billion times more merit and virtue; that is to say, only chanting a mantra once on such days can help us obtain the merit we would gain by chanting it a billion times on other days, and so on.

Therefore, we should be sure not to miss such great opportunities to do our best in doing good deeds such as eating vegetarian food, stopping killing, and releasing lives, which are all very important.

~ Luminous Wisdom Book Series 3

Buddhism should not be seen as an ordinary religion or a superstitious belief system, but rather as a culture. Described in modern language, a lot of Buddhist concepts are compatible with modern science, which itself is integral to our daily lives. Without these concepts, we will make various mistakes and act incorrectly. Because of a lack of understanding of the truth of the universe, our lives will unfold with all kinds of afflictions and suffering. It is therefore essential to introduce the Buddhist view of the world.

～ Luminous Wisdom Book Series 3: The Illusory World

People can never be fully satisfied with their lives if they do not know how to control their desires, since desires can grow and expand endlessly. No matter who you are, there will always be someone who is better than you. If your aim is to climb to the top social stratum, your whole life will be spent in the pursuit of such vanity. The consequence of chasing endless desires is never being happy. We can observe many such cases in daily life, either in our own experience or that of other people. It is therefore important to be content in our lives, harboring fewer desires.

~ Luminous Wisdom Book Series 6

Je Tsongkhapa mentioned in The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment that bodhicitta and the mind of renunciation are very important, but that depending on these alone would not overcome ignorance. In the end, we still need the view of emptiness. This is like going to the doctor to be treated for an illness—the key to curing the illness depends on whether or not its root cause is understood. If not, it is impossible to give the right prescription. Similarly, the reason that we are not liberated (from samsara), not at ease and not free, is not mere coincidence, nor an occurrence without any cause. Neither is it due to the will of an omnipotent God. The root cause indeed originates from attachment. 

~ Luminous Wisdom Book Series 10