The mind is the source of all happiness and the source of all suffering.

The Four Noble Truths are not merely theoretical propositions but a framework for understanding and transforming our experience.

Peace in oneself, peace in the world.

Through violence, you may solve one problem, but you sow the seeds for another.

All that appears and exists, all of samsara and nirvana, has one ground, two paths, and two results. This is the magical display of awareness and unawareness.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

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

When I run from suffering, it follows me. When I face suffering with equanimity, it runs from me.

When you understand that all phenomena are impermanent, unsatisfactory, and non-self, attachment naturally falls away.

Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what's happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what's happening.

Buddhist practice is not to eliminate life's problems but to grow with them patiently and with compassion.

The nature of all things is like a magical illusion, a mirage, a dream, a reflection of the moon in water.

In the spring, hundreds of flowers; in autumn, a harvest moon; in the summer, a refreshing breeze; in winter, snow will accompany you. If useless things do not hang in your mind, any season is a good season for you.

Even if you speak of 'understanding,' this understanding is not a matter of knowledge. It is what fills the entire body and mind.

The deepest form of happiness comes from discovering the natural peace of our own awareness.

Observe the reality as it is, not as you wish it to be.

If you forget yourself, you become the universe.

Silence is sometimes the best answer.

In the gap between thoughts, nonconceptual wisdom shines continuously.

Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have - it is an inner quality that unfolds as we learn to trust our own deepest experience.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Maintain the state of undistractedness and distractions will fly away.

The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life.

The more we understand impermanence, the more we understand that we can't hold on to anything.

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

Although all phenomena are empty of inherent existence, they function perfectly well.

What Zen wants us to do is to acquire an entirely new point of view whereby to look into the mysteries of life and the secrets of nature.

Peace and negativity cannot coexist just as light and darkness cannot coexist.

The only thing that we truly have control over is our attitude toward experience.

The menu is not the meal.

The true understanding is that the practice itself is enlightenment.

Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.

What is the sound of one hand clapping?