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

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

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.

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

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

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

The quality of every moment depends on the state of our minds.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

True peace is found not in the absence of experience but in the clear seeing of all experience.

Only one book is worth reading: the heart.

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

The realization of impermanence leads not to despair but to a deeper appreciation of the preciousness of each moment.

The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.

When you recognize that pain and suffering are impermanent, you become free.

When you walk in the mist, you get wet.

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

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

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

Appearances are mind, mind itself is emptiness, emptiness itself is spontaneous presence.

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

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

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

The instant you speak about a thing, you miss the mark.

Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.

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

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

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

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

The basic teaching of Buddhism is the teaching of transiency, or change.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

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

Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

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

Birth and death are neither two things nor one thing. Life is not an appearance, death is not a disappearance.

The path to liberation requires both understanding and practice, both pariyatti and patipatti.

The purpose of meditation is to gain right understanding of the true nature of mental and physical phenomena.

Just as the wise do not take a mirage to be water, nor an echo to be a voice, so the enlightened do not take the world to be real.

The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience, which in its very nature transcends linguistics.

The person who clings to nothing of the past, present and future, who has no attachment and no aversion, has no conceptual imprints.

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

To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma.

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.

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

Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.

Instead of having a deep understanding of the teaching, we need a strong confidence in our teaching, which says that originally we have Buddha nature.

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

The Buddha's teaching is not a philosophical system but a practical guide to living.

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

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