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

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

If you forget yourself, you become the universe.

My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground upon which I stand.

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

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

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

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

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

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

Expectations are the thieves of joy.

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

By understanding emptiness, one understands all phenomena. Without understanding emptiness, one understands nothing.

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

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

Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.

Those who cling to perceptions and views wander the world offending people.

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

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.

Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.

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

The world is its own magic.

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

The Buddha's path is not about becoming somebody different but about becoming more and more who you really are.

The mind of the past is ungraspable; the mind of the future is ungraspable; the mind of the present is ungraspable.

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

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

The Four Noble Truths are not mere doctrinal propositions but a framework for understanding and transforming our lives.

The practice of vipassana is the study of the self. When you study physical and mental phenomena, you are studying the truth about yourself.

Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.

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

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

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

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

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

The heart of the path is quite simple. No need for long explanations. Give up clinging to love and hate, just rest with things as they are.

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

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.

The root of suffering is attachment.

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.

The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

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.

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

Enlightenment is not a state of perfection but of authenticity.

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

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.

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 ocean does not reject any water; therefore it is great. The mountain does not select its stones; therefore it is great.

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

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?

The nature of mind is not something we need to achieve - it's something we need to recognize.

The path of insight is a path of discovery, not a path of creation. We are discovering what is already there.

The past is just a memory. The future is just a dream. Be here now.

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

The essence of the spiritual journey is the uncovering of what is always already present.

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

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.

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