The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

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

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?

To see the truth, do not be for or against. The struggle between for and against is the mind's worst disease.

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

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

The victorious ones have said that emptiness is the relinquishing of all views. Those who are possessed of the view of emptiness are said to be incurable.

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

Change is the nature of every phenomenon. Accept this truth and you will live a happy life.

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.

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

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

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

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

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

The menu is not the meal.

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

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

The law of nature is the law of cause and effect. As you sow, so shall you reap.

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

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

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

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.

The deepest happiness comes from having an enduring sense of purpose, one that gives our lives meaning beyond the endless pursuit of pleasure and success.

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

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

Our basic nature is pure awareness that simply cognizes experience. Everything else is temporary and adventitious.

The essence of mind is empty like space; yet it contains all things, like a mirror.

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

Wisdom is not something we have to strive to acquire. Rather, wisdom arises naturally as we open our hearts to the truth of what is.

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

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

To live – is that not enough? To love – is that not everything?

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

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

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

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

Just to be alive is enough.

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

Real happiness lies within. It cannot be found in external objects or achievements.

Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.

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

In Zen there must be satori; there must be a general mental upheaval which destroys the old accumulations of intellection and lays down the foundation for a new life.

The sign of wisdom is constant joy.

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

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

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

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

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

To live is enough.

Love is the wish that others be happy, and compassion is the wish that they be free from suffering.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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