The true understanding is that the practice itself is enlightenment.

When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.

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

The best way to solve a problem is to help someone else solve their problem.

Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

When you note effectively, there is no time for defilements to arise. The mind becomes pure through noting.

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

The biggest prison is the one we build in our own mind.

It is never too late to turn on the light.

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back, and reasons to stay.

Those who understand interdependent origination understand suffering, its origin, its cessation, and the path.

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

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

When one sees with wisdom that all phenomena are empty of inherent existence, one is liberated from suffering.

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

The practice of Zen mind is beginner's mind. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.

The essence of the teaching is emptiness and compassion. Without emptiness, compassion can become attachment. Without compassion, emptiness can become cold and distant.

If you want to climb a mountain, begin at the top.

To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma.

The truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals.

Let go of what has passed. Let go of what may come. Let go of what is happening now. Don't try to figure anything out. Don't try to make anything happen. Relax, right now, and rest.

Insight knowledge comes from direct experience, not from intellectual understanding.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

The first noble truth of the Buddha is that life contains suffering. The second noble truth is that the cause of suffering is craving.

The Buddha's path is not about becoming somebody different but about becoming more and more who you really are.

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.

When walking, just walk. When sitting, just sit. Above all, don't wobble.

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

Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone.

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

The root of suffering is not in the world outside us but in our own minds.