Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

The path is not about moving from one place to another. It's about recognizing where we already are.

Maintain the state of undistractedness and distractions will fly away.

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

Liberation is not found by running away from our experience but by looking deeply into it.

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

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

The four foundations of mindfulness are not separate practices but different aspects of the same practice of clear awareness.

Change is the nature of every phenomenon. Accept this truth and you will live a happy life.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

The mind is intrinsically empty. It's empty of all that we perceive as being intrinsically "me" and "mine."

The most profound meditation is to think nothing at all.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

This very body is the Buddha. And this very earth the lotus paradise.

The mind that sees its own nature becomes free from all extremes.

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

Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.

Instead of having a deep understanding of the teaching, we need a strong confidence in our teaching, which says that originally we have Buddha nature.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.

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

The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes.

The highest truth cannot be taught except through the conventional truth.

When concentration is developed, wisdom arises. When wisdom arises, one becomes disenchanted with the five aggregates.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Real peace comes from seeing things as they really are, not as we want them to be.

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

The practice of metta begins with oneself, for only when we have developed loving-kindness towards ourselves can we truly offer it to others.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

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

The victorious ones have said that emptiness is the relinquishing of all views. Those who are possessed of the view of emptiness are said to be incurable.