The path to liberation requires both individual effort and the support of the spiritual community.

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

Enlightenment is not about becoming divine. Instead, it's about becoming more fully human.

Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.

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

The practice of Buddhism is fundamentally a practice of expanding our happiness and diminishing our suffering.

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

Sankharas are the seeds of consciousness that manifest as sensations. By observing sensations equanimously, we stop creating new sankharas.

The sign of wisdom is constant joy.

The first noble truth of the Buddha is that life contains suffering. The second noble truth is that the cause of suffering is craving.

Without darkness, there is no light. Without the path, there is no arrival.

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

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

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

The secret of happiness lies not in getting what we want, but in learning to want what we already have.

When you realize the emptiness of all phenomena, compassion will arise in your heart for all sentient beings who do not understand this truth.

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

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

Buddhas and ordinary beings are not two. Enlightenment and delusion are not different paths.

The menu is not the meal.

When you are you, Zen is Zen. Big mind is just big mind.

The ultimate revolution is the spiritual revolution, where we learn to see reality as it truly is.

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

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

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

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

The mind is the forerunner of all things. Our present life is the result of our past thoughts, and our future life will be the result of our present thoughts.

True happiness is not found through the multiplication of desires but through their simplification.

The defilements of the mind are temporary visitors. Pure awareness is your true home.

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

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

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

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

To live is enough.

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

Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.

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

Altruism is not a luxury, it is a necessity for the survival of humanity.

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

The spiritual journey is not about heaven and finally getting to a place that's really swell.

The three characteristics - impermanence, suffering, and non-self - are not philosophical concepts but aspects of experience to be directly observed.

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

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

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

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

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

If you forget yourself, you become the universe.

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

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

Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.

Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.

Emptiness is not nothingness. Emptiness is the space of possibility.

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

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.

To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things.

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

My father is the intrinsic awareness, Samantabhadra. My mother is the ultimate sphere of reality, Samantabhadri. I belong to the caste of non-duality of these two.

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

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

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.