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

Short moments, many times. That is the essence of meditation practice.

The mind is like a wild monkey, jumping here and there. But through meditation, we learn to see whatever arises in our mind with more spaciousness and clarity.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

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

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

My religion is to live and die without regret.

As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself.

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

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

The cultivation of loving-kindness has the power to transform enmity into amity, hostility into hospitality.

Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don't serve them tea.

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

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

If it isn't good, let it die. If it doesn't die, make it good.

The spiritual journey is not about heaven and finally getting to a place that's really swell.

The nature of mind is like a mirror. It is not affected by whatever appears in it, yet it never fails to reflect everything perfectly.

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.

Meditation is not about getting away from it all. It's about getting into it all.

Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness.

The Buddha's teaching is not a philosophy or a religion; it is a method of practice.

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

Meditation is not an escape from reality but a way to understand reality as it truly is.

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.

Try to be mindful and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool.

The development of wisdom requires both study and practice, both learning and direct experience.

When things fall apart and we're on the verge of we know not what, the test of each of us is to stay on that brink and not concretize.

The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.

A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.

All beings by nature are Buddha, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddha.

Knowledge must be stabilized by meditation. Without meditation, knowledge is like a child in battle.

Craving and aversion are the roots of suffering. Observe them with equanimity.

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth.