Though the view should be as vast as the sky, keep your conduct as fine as barley flour.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.

When you let go of trying to control everything, you can relax and enjoy life.

When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.

Appearances are mind, mind itself is emptiness, emptiness itself is spontaneous presence.

As a flower that is lovely and beautiful, but is scentless, even so fruitless is the well-spoken word of one who does not practice it.

Don't try to push away the darkness. Just light a lamp. The darkness will disappear by itself.

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.

Zen teaches nothing; it merely enables us to wake up and become aware. It does not teach, it points.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

External phenomena are like a dream, whatever appears is not real. Recognize the nature of dream-like phenomena to be dream-like.

The precious pot containing my riches becomes my teacher in the very moment it breaks.

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.

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

May all beings be happy, be peaceful, be liberated.

Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.

Wherever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear.

My father is the intrinsic awareness, Samantabhadra. My mother is the ultimate sphere of reality, Samantabhadri. I belong to the caste of non-duality of these two.

Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.

The practice of mindfulness begins in the small, remote cave of your unconscious mind and blossoms with the sunlight of your conscious life.

The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self.

The everyday practice is simply to develop complete acceptance and openness to all situations and emotions.

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

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

The essence of meditation is not something complicated or exotic. It is simply taking a break from our habitual patterns.

The archer ceases to be conscious of himself as the one who is engaged in hitting the bull's-eye which confronts him. This state of unconsciousness is realized only when, completely empty and rid of the self, he becomes one with the perfecting of his technical skill.

The master's introduction is direct recognition of one's own nature. Meditation is maintaining the continuity of this recognition.

The practice of mindfulness is simple: whatever you experience, you observe and note it.

The mind that notes and the object that is noted are both impermanent. Understanding this leads to liberation.

Insight knowledge comes from direct experience, not from intellectual understanding.

Like a dream, like an illusion, like a city of gandharvas, that's how birth, and that's how living, that's how dying are taught to be.

What we learn about the world is colored by the way we approach it.

Our own life has to be our message.