All experiences are preceded by mind, led by mind, made by mind. Speak or act with a corrupted mind, and suffering follows as the wagon wheel follows the hoof of the ox.

Just to be alive is enough.

Do everything with a mind that lets go. Don't accept praise or gain or anything else. If you let go a little, you will have a little peace; if you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace.

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

The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain.

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

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

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.

When you practice zazen you should not try to attain anything. You should just sit in the complete calmness of your mind and not rely on anything.

Freedom is not found in the absence of difficulty, but in our relationship to it.

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

The Buddha and all sentient beings are nothing but expressions of the one mind. There is nothing else.

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.

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

Without darkness, there is no light. Without the path, there is no arrival.

The essence of mind is empty like space; yet it contains all things, like a mirror.

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 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.

The whole path of mindfulness is about letting go. We let go of our attachment to our views, our attachment to our opinions, our attachment to our ideas.

Enlightenment is not the end of change but the end of resistance to change.

Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.

Neither from itself nor from another, nor from both, nor without a cause, does anything whatever, anywhere arise.

Mindfulness means keeping one's consciousness alive to the present reality.

If you forget yourself, you become the universe.

As a flower that is lovely and beautiful, but is scentless, even so fruitless is the well-spoken word of one who does not practice it.

A pure mind is always full of love - real love for all others.

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.

You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can't solve your own doubts. Investigate yourself to find the truth - inside, not outside.

The essence of Buddhist practice is to bring everything onto the path. Every experience becomes an opportunity for awakening.

The heart of the path is quite simple. No need for long explanations. Give up clinging to love and hate, just rest with things as they are.

Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.

Concentration develops naturally through continuous noting. Don't try to force concentration to arise.