The ultimate source of happiness is not money and power, but warm-heartedness.

When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.

In the gap between thoughts, nonconceptual wisdom shines continuously.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay.

The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds.

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

By understanding emptiness, one understands all phenomena. Without understanding emptiness, one understands nothing.

In the moment of love, awareness is very strong. Use that awareness, that strength of consciousness, to look into yourself.

My father is the intrinsic awareness, Samantabhadra. My mother is the ultimate sphere of reality, Samantabhadri. I belong to the caste of non-duality of these two.

True happiness is not found through the multiplication of desires but through their simplification.

To carry yourself forward and experience myriad things is delusion. That myriad things come forth and experience themselves is awakening.

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

Buddhas and ordinary beings are not two. Enlightenment and delusion are not different paths.

The key to the Buddha's teaching is not grasping, not trying to hold onto things that are essentially impermanent and unstable.

Those who cling to perceptions and views wander the world offending people.

The past is just a memory. The future is just a dream. Be here now.

The way we look at the world is the way the world looks.

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

When the heart is still, it can be kind. When the mind is still, it can see clearly.

The goal of Buddhist practice is not to escape from the world but to transform our relationship with it.

Face your own anger and you will be free from anger. Face your own fears and you will be free from fear.

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

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

The mind itself is the maker of all happiness and misery; yet beings do not understand this and blame external conditions.

The dharma is not outside of you. Looking for it elsewhere is like placing a Buddha on your head while searching for him everywhere else.

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

In true vipassana practice, there is no room for likes and dislikes. There is only observation.

Whatever precious jewel there is in the heavenly worlds, there is nothing comparable to one who is awakened.

The yogi's joy is in the solitude of mountains, where all distractions naturally dissolve into emptiness.

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

Hope and fear come from feeling that we lack something; they come from a sense of poverty. We can't simply relax with ourselves. We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.

Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as your capacity to ground your attention in the present moment.

Zen teaches nothing; it merely enables us to wake up and become aware. It does not teach, it points.