If I had any position, I would thereby have a flaw. But since I have no position, I alone am without flaw.

The supreme path is not to fabricate anything. The supreme meditation is not to be distracted.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

The Buddha's teaching is not a philosophical system but a practical guide to living.

The dharma is not about collecting more beliefs but about becoming free from the power of belief itself.

The ultimate source of happiness is not money and power, but warm-heartedness.

When mindfulness becomes continuous, the distinction between the observer and the observed begins to break down.

Every moment of mindfulness is a step on the path to liberation. Each step is valuable, no matter how small.

The perfect moment is this one, not the one you're waiting for.

The person who clings to nothing of the past, present and future, who has no attachment and no aversion, has no conceptual imprints.

The nature of mind is the unity of awareness and emptiness.

True happiness is born of letting go of what is unnecessary.

We can learn to be present with whatever is happening in our lives, and in this way, we can begin to transform our relationship to difficulty.

Breathing in, there is only the present moment. Breathing out, it is a wonderful moment.

The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your actions will be.

Concentration develops naturally through continuous noting. Don't try to force concentration to arise.

Peace in oneself, peace in the world.

Our task is not to seek for love but to find all the barriers within ourselves that we have built against it.

Face your own anger and you will be free from anger. Face your own fears and you will be free from fear.

The only way to experience truth is to look within, to observe oneself.

When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.

True happiness is not about getting rid of all our problems, but about changing our relationship to them.

Just observe whatever arises. Don't try to create anything, and don't reject anything.

Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with them.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

The three characteristics - impermanence, suffering, and non-self - are not philosophical concepts but aspects of experience to be directly observed.

Zen in its essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's own being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom.

The Buddha taught us to leave alone the things that don't lead to awakening.

Although all phenomena are empty of inherent existence, they function perfectly well.

The practice of mindfulness leads naturally to concentration. Concentration leads naturally to wisdom.

The dharma is not in the books. If you want to find the dharma, look in your mind.

We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking.

Right View is not just a matter of intellectual understanding but of seeing things as they really are.