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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Only one book is worth reading: the heart.

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.

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

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

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

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