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

When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

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

Just know what is happening in your mind - not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer, see it, know it, be empty.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.

The more you give, the more you have. That's the economics of kindness.

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

The defilements of the mind are temporary visitors. Pure awareness is your true home.

Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes.

The supreme path is not to fabricate anything. The supreme meditation is not to be distracted.

Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy, and happiness is found in benefiting others.

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

Meditation is not about getting rid of thoughts; it's about changing the way we relate to them.

Life is available only in the present moment.

Our defilements are like tame tigers. If you feed them, they're tame. If you stop feeding them, they'll eat you up.

The more you understand, the more you love; the more you love, the more you understand.

Birth and death are neither two things nor one thing. Life is not an appearance, death is not a disappearance.

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

In our struggle for freedom, truth is the only weapon we possess.

In meditation, we are continuously discovering who and what we are.

Better to have one moment of genuine meditation than to perform religious activities for a thousand years.

The path is the goal. Every step of the journey is the journey.

The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

The path of practice moves from faith through understanding to direct realization.

Zen in its essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's own being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom.

The practice of ethics is not about following rules but about developing inner purity and freedom.

Wisdom is not about accumulating knowledge, but about seeing through all knowledge.

The practice of meditation is not about achieving states of bliss but about seeing things as they really are.

In the beginning, nothing comes, in the middle nothing stays, in the end nothing goes.