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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Only one book is worth reading: the heart.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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