The root of suffering is attachment.

The purpose of meditation is to make our mind calm and peaceful. If our mind is peaceful, we will be free from worries and mental discomfort.

Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

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

The everyday practice is simply to develop complete acceptance and openness to all situations and emotions.

External phenomena are like a dream, whatever appears is not real. Recognize the nature of dream-like phenomena to be dream-like.

Mindfulness is not just bare attention but wise attention that leads to understanding and insight.

The highest mantra is to be without deception. The highest medicine is to have few desires. The highest meditation is not to be attached.

The person who clings to nothing of the past, present and future, who has no attachment and no aversion, has no conceptual imprints.

Try to be mindful and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool.

The essence of meditation is not something complicated or exotic. It is simply taking a break from our habitual patterns.

The more you give, the more you have. That's the economics of kindness.

What Zen wants us to do is to acquire an entirely new point of view whereby to look into the mysteries of life and the secrets of nature.

Not by hatred is hatred conquered, but by love alone. This is an eternal law.

Zen proposes its solution by directly appealing to facts of personal experience and not to book-knowledge.

Meditation is not about achieving anything. It's about letting go of everything.

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

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

The root of all mind is your own present pure awareness. Rest in that essence without seeking elsewhere.

Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile.

The instant you speak about a thing, you miss the mark.

Real peace comes from seeing things as they really are, not as we want them to be.

You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can't solve your own doubts. Investigate yourself to find the truth - inside, not outside.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Sankharas are the seeds of consciousness that manifest as sensations. By observing sensations equanimously, we stop creating new sankharas.

Sleep is the best meditation.

Each moment of mindfulness is a moment of purification.

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

There are many ways to meditate. But at the heart of them all is mindfulness.

There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment.