The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

When you recognize that pain and suffering are impermanent, you become free.

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

The water in the ocean can be rough or calm. It can be clear or murky. But the water itself doesn't mind.

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

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

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

Nothing is permanent. Everything is subject to change. Being is always becoming.

The ultimate purpose of Buddhism is to serve and benefit humanity.

The more we understand impermanence, the more we appreciate each moment of our lives.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

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

If you forget yourself, you become the universe.

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

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

The essence of the teaching is emptiness and compassion. Without emptiness, compassion can become attachment. Without compassion, emptiness can become cold and distant.

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

If you want to know your past life, look at your present condition. If you want to know your future life, look at your present actions.

The present moment is the only moment available to us, and it is the door to all moments.

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

All that appears and exists, all of samsara and nirvana, has one ground, two paths, and two results. This is the magical display of awareness and unawareness.

Impermanence, suffering, and non-self are not philosophical concepts but realities to be directly perceived through mindfulness practice.

The dharma wheel turns from the beginning. There is neither excess nor deficiency. The whole universe is moistened with nectar, and the truth is ready to harvest.

The most important factor in achieving happiness is the mind. Happiness and suffering are mental states and therefore depend on the mind.

The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment.

Neither from itself nor from another, nor from both, nor without a cause, does anything whatever, anywhere arise.

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

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

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.

The path to liberation requires both understanding and practice, both pariyatti and patipatti.

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.

Every being has the potential of becoming a Buddha. Our true nature is Buddha nature.

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.

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

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

In our struggle for freedom, truth is the only weapon we possess.

The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience, which in its very nature transcends linguistics.

Expectations are the thieves of joy.

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

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

Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.

The goal of the Buddhist path is not to add something to our existence but to discover something that has been there all along.

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

The difference between buddhas and sentient beings is that buddhas recognize their nature while sentient beings fail to recognize it.

The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life.

Enlightenment is not the end of change but the end of resistance to change.

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

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

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

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

When you understand that all phenomena are impermanent, unsatisfactory, and non-self, attachment naturally falls away.

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

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

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

The purpose of Buddhist practice is not to become a Buddhist but to awaken to the nature of reality.

People who study a lot but don't practice are like a ladle in a soup pot. It's in the soup every day, but it doesn't know the taste of the soup.

The Buddha and all sentient beings are nothing but expressions of the one mind. There is nothing else.

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

The ultimate source of happiness is not money and power, but warm-heartedness.

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