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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Only one book is worth reading: the heart.