Right practice is steady practice. Whether you feel lazy or diligent, just keep practicing.

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

If you want to find peace, then look at that point where you find you're dissatisfied and investigate what's really going on.

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

Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us.

The Buddha taught that wealth does not bring happiness and security. The pursuit of wealth is a matter of living in balance.

Whatever is dependently co-arisen, that is explained to be emptiness. That, being a dependent designation, is itself the middle way.

Study the Buddha's teaching which is present in every moment.

Wisdom arises when you see the true characteristics of phenomena through direct experience.

Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity than thinking.

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

As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home.

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

True peace comes not from controlling the world, but from letting go of control.

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.

The development of wisdom does not occur in isolation but requires the cultivation of the entire Noble Eightfold Path.

The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds.

The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.

If it isn't good, let it die. If it doesn't die, make it good.

Meditation is not an escape from life but a way to fully engage with life.

Concentration and insight are like two wings of a bird: both are necessary for the flight to liberation.

The mind is like water. When it's turbulent, it's difficult to see. When it's calm, everything becomes clear.

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

Just observe whatever arises. Don't try to create anything, and don't reject anything.

Genuine happiness comes from having developed basic human qualities, such as attention, emotional balance, and generosity.

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time.

It is never too late to turn on the light.

To be attached to a thing means that mind and the thing meet and grow into each other.

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

The basic idea of Zen is to come in touch with the inner workings of our being, and to do this in the most direct way possible, without resorting to anything external or superadded.

The defilements of the mind are temporary visitors. Pure awareness is your true home.

Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness.