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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Only one book is worth reading: the heart.

Don't think that only sitting with the eyes closed is practice. If you do think this way, then quickly change your thinking.

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.

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

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.

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.