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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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