Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water. The moon does not get wet, nor is the water broken.

Real peace comes from seeing things as they really are, not as we want them to be.

The practice of vipassana is the study of the self. When you study physical and mental phenomena, you are studying the truth about yourself.

The Buddha taught that wealth does not bring happiness and security. The pursuit of wealth is a matter of living in balance.

The path of awakening is not about becoming who we think we should be, but about unbecoming who we are not.

The mind is the source of all happiness and the source of all suffering.

To carry yourself forward and experience myriad things is delusion. That myriad things come forth and experience themselves is awakening.

When one sees with wisdom that all phenomena are empty of inherent existence, one is liberated from suffering.

The farther you enter into truth, the deeper it is.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

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

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.

Expectations are the thieves of joy.

We should find perfect existence through imperfect existence.

The nature of mind is the unity of awareness and emptiness.

The Buddha's teaching is a teaching of self-reliance, of being one's own master, one's own refuge.

The purpose of meditation is to gain right understanding of the true nature of mental and physical phenomena.

The Four Noble Truths are not merely theoretical propositions but a framework for understanding and transforming our experience.

Don't try to push away the darkness. Just light a lamp. The darkness will disappear by itself.

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.

The world is its own magic.

Although all phenomena are empty of inherent existence, they function perfectly well.

Instead of having a deep understanding of the teaching, we need a strong confidence in our teaching, which says that originally we have Buddha nature.

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

The mind that notes and the object that is noted are both impermanent. Understanding this leads to liberation.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

When we understand others, we understand ourselves. When we love others, we love ourselves.

The nature of life is change. The nature of change is painful. The nature of pain is temporary.

Only one book is worth reading: the heart.

Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.

The path to liberation is through understanding the true nature of mind and matter through direct observation.

Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.

The root of suffering is not in the world outside us but in our own minds.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

The mind of the past is ungraspable; the mind of the future is ungraspable; the mind of the present is ungraspable.

Life is available only in the present moment.

The more you understand impermanence, the more you appreciate every moment.

The time of the past becomes the present, the time of the present becomes the future, the time of the future becomes the present, and the time of the present becomes the past.

To live – is that not enough? To love – is that not everything?

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

The Noble Eightfold Path is not a path of mere intellectual understanding but a path of practice, of inner transformation.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.

The true person is not anyone in particular. But like the deep blue color of the limitless sky, it is everyone, everywhere in the world.

The Buddha's teachings are not a religion, but a science of mind.

The Buddha never taught a sectarian religion; he taught Dhamma - the way to liberation - which is universal.

The Buddha's teaching is not a philosophy or a religion; it is a method of practice.

Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

The path of practice requires both faith and wisdom, both devotion and understanding.

The law of nature is the law of cause and effect. As you sow, so shall you reap.

The root of all suffering is ignorance. The antidote to ignorance is wisdom that realizes emptiness.

The nature of everything is illusory and ephemeral, those with dualistic perception regard suffering as happiness, like they who lick the honey from a razor's edge.

The ocean does not reject any water; therefore it is great. The mountain does not select its stones; therefore it is great.

The realization of impermanence leads not to despair but to a deeper appreciation of the preciousness of each moment.

The highest truth cannot be taught except through the conventional truth.

All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births in death.

Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.