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

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

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

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

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

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

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

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

The teaching of the Buddha is based on two truths: conventional truth and ultimate truth. Without understanding the relationship between these two, the deeper meaning of the Buddha's teaching cannot be understood.

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

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

Enlightenment is not a state of perfection but of authenticity.

Ethical conduct is not a constraint upon our freedom but a condition of our freedom.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Those who grasp at things as truly existent are like someone trying to catch the reflection of the moon in water.

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.

The deepest form of happiness comes from discovering the natural peace of our own awareness.

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.

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

The root of suffering is attachment.

Recognize the emptiness of all phenomena, but do not become attached to emptiness itself.

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

The experience of emptiness engenders compassion.

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

To live is enough.

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

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

Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?

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

The dharma is not about collecting more beliefs but about becoming free from the power of belief itself.

Suffering comes from our resistance to what is. Peace comes from our acceptance of what is.

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

When concentration is developed, wisdom arises. When wisdom arises, one becomes disenchanted with the five aggregates.

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

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.

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

Since all things are empty of inherent existence, anything is possible. If things had inherent existence, nothing would be possible.

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

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

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

The Buddha's teaching is not about belief but about investigation, not about accepting but about examining.

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

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.

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.

Peace is not found by changing the world, but by changing your attitude to the world.

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

Don't be a bodhisatta; don't be an arahant; don't be anything at all. Being something makes you suffer.

The Buddha's teaching challenges us to master the art of living, to live in a way that leads to the extinction of suffering.

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

Suffering is not the end of the story; it is the middle of the story.

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

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

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

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