Only one book is worth reading: the heart.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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