If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything.

Loving-kindness is not something we need to manufacture. It's a natural expression of our awakened nature.

Don't think that only sitting with the eyes closed is practice. If you do think this way, then quickly change your thinking.

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

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

We should find perfect existence through imperfect existence.

The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.

When the iron bird flies and horses run on wheels, the Tibetan people will be scattered like ants across the face of the earth.

The more you suffer the deeper grows your character, and with the deepening of your character you read the more penetratingly into the secrets of life.

We can learn to be present with whatever is happening in our lives, and in this way, we can begin to transform our relationship to difficulty.

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

The most important factor in achieving happiness is the mind. Happiness and suffering are mental states and therefore depend on the mind.

The practice is simply this: keep coming back to your breath during the day. This will give your mind a steadiness and your life a balance.

Equanimity is not indifference. It is the balanced state of mind.

Metta is the ability to embrace all parts of ourselves, as well as all parts of the world.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.

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

The measure of success in spiritual life is how peaceful you are.

Just as the wise do not take a mirage to be water, nor an echo to be a voice, so the enlightened do not take the world to be real.

The mind is the source of all happiness and the source of all suffering.

In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.

The mind that sees its own nature becomes free from all extremes.

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

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

The Buddha never taught a sectarian religion; he taught Dhamma - the way to liberation - which is universal.

The key to meditation is to recognize the nature of your mind rather than trying to change it.

The difference between being caught in thoughts and being mindful of thoughts is like the difference between being in a movie and watching a movie.

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

The master's introduction is direct recognition of one's own nature. Meditation is maintaining the continuity of this recognition.

The everyday practice is simply to develop complete acceptance and openness to all situations and emotions.

The practice of mindfulness transforms the mind from a place of suffering into an instrument of enlightenment.

My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground upon which I stand.

There are many ways to meditate. But at the heart of them all is mindfulness.