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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.