Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

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

The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred.

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both. Appreciating the gloriousness inspires us, encourages us, cheers us up, gives us a bigger perspective, energizes us. We feel connected. But if that's all that's happening, we get arrogant and start to look down on others, and there is a sense of making ourselves a big deal and being really serious about it, wanting it to be like that forever. The gloriousness becomes tinged by craving and addiction. On the other hand, wretchedness--life's painful aspect--softens us up considerably. Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person.

The practice is not about achieving special states but about seeing ordinary experience with extraordinary clarity.

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.

If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.

The practice of mindfulness leads naturally to concentration. Concentration leads naturally to wisdom.

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth.

You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.

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

The goal of Buddhist practice is not to escape from the world but to transform our relationship with it.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

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.

Don't try to change the world. First, change yourself.

Zen teaches nothing; it merely enables us to wake up and become aware. It does not teach, it points.

Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.

The dharma is not about collecting more beliefs but about becoming free from the power of belief itself.

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

The truth of suffering is not to be feared but to be understood through direct observation.

The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.

Just know what is happening in your mind - not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer, see it, know it, be empty.

The practice of meditation requires both energy and patience, both effort and relaxation.

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

Devotion is the head of meditation, as is often said. When you are inspired by some spiritual teacher, you can have a very strong connection with that person, and thereby the blessings can enter.

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

Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past could have been any different.

Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.

The eye with which I see Buddha is the same eye with which Buddha sees me.

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.

When we are mindful, deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled with acceptance, joy, peace and love.