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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

Only one book is worth reading: the heart.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.