I myself feel, and also tell other Buddhists that the question of Nirvana will come later.
There is not much hurry; if in day to day life you lead a good life, with honesty, with love, with compassion, with less selfishness, then automatically it will lead to Nirvana.
I dedicate the merit of the occasion to all beings. This gesture of universal friendship has been likened to a drop of fresh spring water. If we put it on a rock in the sunshine, it will soon evaporate. If we put it in the ocean, however, it will never be lost. Thus the wish is made that we not keep the teachings to ourselves but to use them to benefit others.
Whatever we do, we should see ourselves. Reading books doesn't ever give rise to anything. The days pass by, but we don't see ourselves. Knowing about practice is practising in order to know.
Even for non-believers the best thing and only way to create merit (good
karma) is compassion, as well as making offerings and prostrations to
holy objects and circumambulating them, even by chance. What gives all
beings a happy, satisfied, meaningful and successful life is compassion.
Generosity should always be exercised impartially toward all – the poor, the sick, the aged, and the traveller from afar – without discrimination between friend and stranger.
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
