Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.

The nature of everything is empty and clear, and the mind is beyond both existence and nonexistence.

The key to the Buddha's teaching is not grasping, not trying to hold onto things that are essentially impermanent and unstable.

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Past thoughts are traceless, clear, and empty. Future thoughts are unborn and fresh. The present moment abides naturally and unconstructed.

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

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

The purpose of life is to be happy, to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is not to be well known, cited, or powerful.

Real freedom is not about controlling our experience, but about being free within our experience.

Happiness is not the pursuit of an endless succession of experiences but an attitude toward life.

The biggest prison is the one we build in our own mind.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy, and happiness is found in benefiting others.

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

Those who understand interdependent origination understand suffering, its origin, its cessation, and the path.

The more you understand, the more you love; the more you love, the more you understand.

Craving and aversion are the roots of suffering. Observe them with equanimity.

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

Our true nature is like a diamond - pure, brilliant, and indestructible. No matter how much dirt covers it, its essential nature remains unchanged.

Loving-kindness is not something we need to manufacture. It's a natural expression of our awakened nature.

All experiences are preceded by mind, having mind as their master, created by mind.

Change is possible because there is nothing inherently permanent about our disturbing emotions.

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

Everybody has the light of Buddha within, but they don't look for it.

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

The mind that sees its own nature becomes free from all extremes.

The root of suffering is attachment.

The Four Noble Truths are not mere doctrinal propositions but a framework for understanding and transforming our lives.

Life is like a cup of tea. It's all in how you make it.

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.

Each moment of clear seeing is a moment of freedom from the illusion of permanence, satisfaction, and self.

Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.

Whatever precious jewel there is in the heavenly worlds, there is nothing comparable to one who is awakened.

The quality of every moment depends on the state of our minds.

True freedom is a freedom from the tyranny of our own thoughts and afflictive emotions.

The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not.

Dependent origination is not a theory about the origin of the world but a teaching that shows how suffering originates in dependence on our own mental processes.

Like a dream, like an illusion, like a city of gandharvas, that's how birth, and that's how living, that's how dying are taught to be.

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

All beings by nature are Buddha, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddha.

Real happiness comes from having an unshakable connection to the deep wellspring of peace and happiness that is not dependent on external conditions.

As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself.

The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.

The Buddha's teaching is a middle way between all extremes, between eternalism and annihilationism, between self-indulgence and self-torture.

The knowledge of dissolution comes when you see both the noting mind and noted object dissolving together.

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

The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.

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

True happiness is born of letting go of what is unnecessary.

If you want to know your past life, look into your present condition; if you want to know your future life, look into your present actions.

The goal of Buddhist practice is not to escape from the world but to transform our relationship with it.

What we call "I" is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale.

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

The past is for learning from, not for living in.

The more we understand impermanence, the more we understand that we can't hold on to anything.

Awareness is always with us. We don't need to create it or achieve it - we just need to recognize what's already there.

What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil.

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

Life is an art, and like perfect art it should be self-forgetting.

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth.

In the moment of pure noting, there is no self - only the knowing and the known.