Zen proposes its solution by directly appealing to facts of personal experience and not to book-knowledge.

The way to overcome anger is to be too busy being kind to have time to be angry.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

The rising and falling of the abdomen is not the main object. The main object is to develop mindfulness, concentration, and insight.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.

Whoever told you that practice and enlightenment are separate?

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks.

Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone.

Right practice is steady practice. Whether you feel lazy or diligent, just keep practicing.

In true vipassana practice, there is no room for likes and dislikes. There is only observation.

Your own treasure house contains everything you need; why search outside?

Since all things are empty of inherent existence, anything is possible. If things had inherent existence, nothing would be possible.

The stages of insight unfold naturally when mindfulness is continuous. There is no need to desire them or try to make them happen.

If you want to understand suffering, you must look into the situation at hand. The teachings say that wherever a problem arises it must be settled right there.

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

World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.

The purpose of meditation is to gain right understanding of the true nature of mental and physical phenomena.

The greatest obstacle to meditation is our expectation about what it should be.

Loving-kindness is not something we need to manufacture. It's a natural expression of our awakened nature.

The problem is not the problem; the problem is your attitude about the problem.

In the moment of pure noting, there is no self - only the knowing and the known.

The Noble Eightfold Path is not a path of mere intellectual understanding but a path of practice, of inner transformation.

To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things.

The ultimate revolution is the spiritual revolution, where we learn to see reality as it truly is.

External seeking only leads to exhaustion. When you imitate others, you lose your own authenticity.

Mindfulness is the quality and power of mind that is aware of what's happening—without judgment and without interference.

The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.

The key to transformation is not to fight with our experience but to open to it with awareness.

Happiness is a skill that can be developed like playing an instrument or learning to read.

Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.