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

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

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

What we call "I" is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale.

The one who grasps at existence suffers in samsara, while the one who grasps at non-existence will find no liberation.

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

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.

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.

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

Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.

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

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

The experience of emptiness engenders compassion.

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

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

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

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

The root of suffering is attachment.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

True freedom is not the absence of commitment but the presence of choice.

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.

Wisdom is not about accumulating knowledge, but about seeing through all knowledge.

What we learn about the world is colored by the way we approach it.

When the iron bird flies and horses run on wheels, the Tibetan people will be scattered like ants across the face of the earth.

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

In the spiritual world there are no time divisions such as the past, present and future; for they have contracted themselves into a single moment of the present where life quivers in its true sense.

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

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

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

You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.

Zen in its essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's own being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom.

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

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

The nature of all things is like a magical illusion, a mirage, a dream, a reflection of the moon in water.

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

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

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

The path to enlightenment is not a path at all. It is a realization that where you are is where you have always been.

Karma is not fate but the law of moral causation, showing us that we are the architects of our own destiny.

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

When you walk in the mist, you get wet.

The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

Enlightenment is the realization that we were never really separate from one another or from all of life.

Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher.

When mindfulness becomes continuous, the distinction between the observer and the observed begins to break down.

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

The Buddha taught that wealth does not bring happiness and security. The pursuit of wealth is a matter of living in balance.

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

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