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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Only one book is worth reading: the heart.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.