Nothing can harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

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

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

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

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

This very body is the Buddha. And this very earth the lotus paradise.

The movement of love is what creates the beauty in our lives.

The essence of all phenomena is empty and clear like space. The nature of mind is awareness-emptiness like the sun and sky.

When we see the nature of the mind, we see that we are not our thoughts.

The Buddha's teaching is not a philosophical system but a practical guide to living.

What you are is what you have been. What you'll be is what you do now.

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

Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don't serve them tea.

When you find your place where you are, practice occurs, actualizing the fundamental point.

The first step toward faith is to admit that we don't know everything.

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

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

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

The way to change the world is to change your own mind.

When you are you, Zen is Zen. Big mind is just big mind.

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

Compassion is not mere sentiment but a powerful force that can transform both ourselves and others.

Sleep is the best meditation.

The greatest obstacle to meditation is our expectation about what it should be.

Only one book is worth reading: the heart.

When you understand that all phenomena are impermanent, unsatisfactory, and non-self, attachment naturally falls away.

The more you understand yourself, the more you understand the world.

The mind is like a wild monkey, jumping here and there. But through meditation, we learn to see whatever arises in our mind with more spaciousness and clarity.

Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.

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

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

For whom emptiness is possible, everything is possible. For whom emptiness is not possible, nothing is possible.

The only thing that we truly have control over is our attitude toward experience.