The path to liberation requires both understanding and practice, both pariyatti and patipatti.

One moment can change a day, one day can change a life, and one life can change the world.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.

The everyday practice is simply to develop complete acceptance and openness to all situations and emotions.

What is the sound of one hand clapping?

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

Meditation is the road to happiness.

The signs of practice are not in extraordinary experiences but in extraordinary awareness of ordinary experiences.

Real freedom is not about controlling our experience, but about being free within our experience.

In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.

Do not mistake understanding for realization, and do not mistake realization for liberation.

Just as the wise do not take a mirage to be water, nor an echo to be a voice, so the enlightened do not take the world to be real.

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.

Nothing can harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home.

The Buddha's teaching is not a philosophical system but a practical guide to living.

Don't be a bodhisatta; don't be an arahant; don't be anything at all. Being something makes you suffer.

The moment you note a thought, it disappears. The noting mind keeps the hindrances away.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.

The basic teaching of Buddhism is the teaching of transiency, or change.

The essence of Buddhist practice is to reduce our selfishness and to work for the benefit of others.

Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

Don't expect or desire anything. Just keep noting whatever arises in the present moment.

Love is not a feeling. It's a capability.

The practice of mindfulness is simple: whatever you experience, you observe and note it.

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

Those who grasp at things as truly existent are like someone trying to catch the reflection of the moon in water.

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

The nature of mind is the unity of awareness and emptiness.

Zen is not necessarily against words, but it is well aware of their limitations.

Mindfulness is the key to the present moment. Without it we cannot see the world clearly, and we cannot make the wisest choices in our lives.

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