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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

Only one book is worth reading: the heart.

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

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

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

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

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

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