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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Only one book is worth reading: the heart.

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

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