If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

The six realms of existence are like a dream, why build a prison for yourself?

The way to overcome anger is to be too busy being kind to have time to be angry.

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

Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.

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

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

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

The Buddha's teaching is a middle way between all extremes, between eternalism and annihilationism, between self-indulgence and self-torture.

To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things.

One moment can change a day, one day can change a life, and one life can change the world.

Mindfulness is attention to life, and life itself is sacred.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Though the view should be as vast as the sky, keep your conduct as fine as barley flour.

In the gap between thoughts, nonconceptual wisdom shines continuously.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.

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.

Our emotions are like waves in the ocean. We can't stop the waves, but we can learn to surf.

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

The restraint of the senses is not a matter of suppression but of wise attention to our experience.

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

When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick. Every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead, be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower.

Every moment of mindfulness is a step on the path to liberation. Each step is valuable, no matter how small.

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

Rather than letting our negativity get the better of us, we could acknowledge that right now we feel like a piece of shit and not be squeamish about taking a good look.

Meditation is the road to happiness.

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

To see directly is to be free of hope and fear. Hope and fear are like a cloud before the sun.

The dharma is not in the books. If you want to find the dharma, look in your mind.

Hope and fear come from feeling that we lack something; they come from a sense of poverty. We can't simply relax with ourselves. We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.

The nature of everything is empty and clear, and the mind is beyond both existence and nonexistence.

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

The Buddha's teachings are not a religion, but a science of mind.