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

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. If you let go completely, you will have complete peace.

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

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

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

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

Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: you won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.

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

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

The heart of the path is quite simple. No need for long explanations. Give up clinging to love and hate, just rest with things as they are.

When we know the truth, we become people who don't have to think much, we become people with wisdom.

The water in the ocean can be rough or calm. It can be clear or murky. But the water itself doesn't mind.

Meditation is like catching a fish. If you try to catch it quickly, you'll miss it. If you have patience and know how to wait, the fish will come.

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.

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.

Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher.

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

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