The mind is like water. When it's turbulent, it's difficult to see. When it's calm, everything becomes clear.

The more we understand the nature of our mind, the more we understand the nature of our world.

Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes.

When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything. When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything.

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

If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer.

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

The true mark of a spiritual practitioner is that your own behavior is better, not that you can criticize others well.

Meditation is not about trying to change your experience; it's about changing your relationship to your experience.

Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.

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.

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

The knowledge of dissolution comes when you see both the noting mind and noted object dissolving together.

Neither from itself nor from another, nor from both, nor without a cause, does anything whatever, anywhere arise.

The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.

Kindness is the solution to all of life's problems.

Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.

Impermanence, suffering, and non-self are not philosophical concepts but realities to be directly perceived through mindfulness practice.

Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is relax.

Sankharas are the seeds of consciousness that manifest as sensations. By observing sensations equanimously, we stop creating new sankharas.

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

The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.

Awareness is the basis, or what you might call the "support," of the mind. It is steady and unchanging, like the pole to which the flag of ordinary consciousness is attached.

Enlightenment is not the end of change but the end of resistance to change.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

The practice is simply this: keep coming back to your breath during the day. This will give your mind a steadiness and your life a balance.

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

We need to learn to let our emotions pass through us like waves, without getting caught in their undertow.

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

Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment.

When we recognize that our thoughts are just thoughts, we can choose whether or not to follow them.

Enlightenment is the realization that we were never really separate from one another or from all of life.

Enlightenment is not about becoming something special, but about realizing what we already are.