The basic teaching of Buddhism is the teaching of transiency, or change.

Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken! Take heed, do not squander your life.

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

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

Enlightenment is not the end of change but the end of resistance to change.

The essence of the spiritual journey is the uncovering of what is always already present.

When mindfulness is weak, defilements are strong; when mindfulness is strong, defilements are weak.

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

The Noble Eightfold Path is a path of training: training in ethical conduct, training in mental discipline, and training in wisdom.

When the mind is ready to understand, the truth will come to meet it.

There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live.

The Buddha taught us to leave alone the things that don't lead to awakening.

The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your actions will be.

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

Compassion is not something we develop. It arises naturally as we see the truth of what is.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

The mind of the past is ungraspable; the mind of the future is ungraspable; the mind of the present is ungraspable.

The past is for learning from, not for living in.

In Zen there must be satori; there must be a general mental upheaval which destroys the old accumulations of intellection and lays down the foundation for a new life.

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

The true path is not difficult; just avoid picking and choosing.

Meditation is not about trying to change your experience; it's about changing your relationship to your experience.

The mind is intrinsically empty. It's empty of all that we perceive as being intrinsically "me" and "mine."

We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking.

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

In the moment of pure noting, there is no self - only the knowing and the known.

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

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.

The door of your heart can only be opened from the inside.

Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.