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

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

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Meditation is not about achieving anything. It's about letting go of everything.

When you practice zazen you should not try to attain anything. You should just sit in the complete calmness of your mind and not rely on anything.

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

The way to change others' minds is with affection, and not anger.

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

When we know the truth, we become people who don't have to think much, we become people with wisdom.

Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.

The more you understand yourself, the more you understand the world.

The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred.

Where is the place that your original face has not yet emerged?

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

The mind of the past is ungraspable; the mind of the future is ungraspable; the mind of the present is ungraspable.

Every experience is an opportunity to practice awareness.

Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind.

Emptiness is not nothingness. Emptiness is the space of possibility.

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

A pure mind is always full of love - real love for all others.

Happiness is not about getting what you want, but wanting what you've got.

The role of Zen is neither to stand above life nor to run away from it, but to face it with a spirit of determination.

The goal of the Buddhist path is not to add something to our existence but to discover something that has been there all along.

The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.

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

The biggest prison is the one we build in our own mind.

Nothing is permanent. Everything is subject to change. Being is always becoming.

When we develop patience, we find that we develop a reserve of calm and tranquility.

When you recognize that pain and suffering are impermanent, you become free.

The more we understand impermanence, the more we appreciate each moment of our lives.

What you are is what you have been. What you'll be is what you do now.

The mind has first to be attuned to the Unconscious.