Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.

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

Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.

The path of insight is a path of discovery, not a path of creation. We are discovering what is already there.

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

Right View is not just a matter of intellectual understanding but of seeing things as they really are.

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

The path is not about moving from one place to another. It's about recognizing where we already are.

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

The secret of happiness is to want what you already have.

The eye with which I see Buddha is the same eye with which Buddha sees me.

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

When we understand that peace is not dependent on external conditions, we can find it in the midst of any circumstance.

This very body is the Buddha. And this very earth the lotus paradise.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

External phenomena are like a dream, whatever appears is not real. Recognize the nature of dream-like phenomena to be dream-like.

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

The truth of suffering is not to be feared but to be understood through direct observation.

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

The instant you speak about a thing, you miss the mark.

When you walk in the mist, you get wet.

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

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

Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, just as ice and water are of the same substance.

If I had any position, I would thereby have a flaw. But since I have no position, I alone am without flaw.

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

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

The nature of the mind is like the sky, and our thoughts, emotions, and experiences are like clouds passing through it.

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure.

Life is available only in the present moment.

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

The only things that are truly mine are my actions and their results.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

True happiness is not about getting rid of all our problems, but about changing our relationship to them.

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

Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.

The six realms of existence are like a dream, why build a prison for yourself?

Whatever is dependently co-arisen, that is explained to be emptiness. That, being a dependent designation, is itself the middle way.

The five aggregates are not a theoretical model but a description of lived experience to be investigated through mindfulness.

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

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

To live fully is to let go and die with each step.

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

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

The Dhamma is not a collection of doctrinal formulas but a path leading to direct insight into the nature of reality.

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

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

The path of practice moves from faith through understanding to direct realization.

Happiness is found in the simplest of things. It is not in the things you own, but in the love you share.

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

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.

Don't take life too seriously. No one gets out alive anyway.

There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.

The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.

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.

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

The spiritual journey begins with the recognition that beneath our surface happiness there lies a deep inner pain.

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

There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.