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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Expectations are the thieves of joy.

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

The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.

What Zen wants us to do is to acquire an entirely new point of view whereby to look into the mysteries of life and the secrets of nature.

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

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

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

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

The Buddha taught us to leave alone the things that don't lead to awakening.

The Buddha's teaching is a teaching of self-reliance, of being one's own master, one's own refuge.

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

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

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

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

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

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

To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things.

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

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.

When you understand that all phenomena are impermanent, unsatisfactory, and non-self, attachment naturally falls away.

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

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

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

The ultimate purpose of Buddhism is to serve and benefit humanity.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

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

In the beginning, nothing comes, in the middle nothing stays, in the end nothing goes.

The way we look at the world is the way the world looks.

The root of suffering is not in the world outside us but in our own minds.

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

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 eye with which I see Buddha is the same eye with which Buddha sees me.

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

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

When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.

The lamp of wisdom burns constantly, illuminating the nature of mind.

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

If you want to know the past, look at the present. If you want to know the future, look at the present.

Wherever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear.

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

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

Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.

In our struggle for freedom, truth is the only weapon we possess.

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

Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.

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

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

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

The difference between buddhas and sentient beings is that buddhas recognize their nature while sentient beings fail to recognize it.

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

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