If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer.

Don't be a bodhisatta; don't be an arahant; don't be anything at all. Being something makes you suffer.

Do everything with a mind that lets go. Don't accept praise or gain or anything else. If you let go a little, you will have a little peace; if you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace.

People who study a lot but don't practice are like a ladle in a soup pot. It's in the soup every day, but it doesn't know the taste of the soup.

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

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

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

Trees, mountains, and vines all exist in nature according to their own truth. They are born and die following their nature. They remain this way because that's what they are. They don't practice meditation or do anything special.

Whatever we do, we should see ourselves. Reading books doesn't show us our defilements. Watch yourself. Watch your mind.

If you want to understand suffering, you must look into the situation at hand. The teachings say that wherever a problem arises it must be settled right there.

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

Only one book is worth reading: the heart.

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

We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things.

The heart of one who practices is like the earth. No matter what they throw on it, the earth remains unchanged.

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

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

When the heart is still, it can be kind. When the mind is still, it can see clearly.

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

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.