Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.