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

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

The essence of the teaching is emptiness and compassion. Without emptiness, compassion can become attachment. Without compassion, emptiness can become cold and distant.

Life is available only in the present moment.

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.

Enlightenment is not a state of perfection but of authenticity.

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.

Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.

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

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

The mind is the source of all happiness and the source of all suffering.

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.

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

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

The experience of emptiness engenders compassion.

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

The purpose of life is to be happy, to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is not to be well known, cited, or powerful.

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

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

All experiences are preceded by mind, having mind as their master, created by mind.

Suffering comes from our resistance to what is. Peace comes from our acceptance of what is.

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

The sign of wisdom is constant joy.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.

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

The three characteristics - impermanence, suffering, and non-self - are not philosophical concepts but aspects of experience to be directly observed.

The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment.

The nature of everything is illusory and ephemeral, those with dualistic perception regard suffering as happiness, like they who lick the honey from a razor's edge.

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

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

If you forget yourself, you become the universe.

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

The farther you enter into truth, the deeper it is.

The essence of Buddhism is not a belief system but a systematic investigation of our experience.

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

Only one book is worth reading: the heart.

When you walk in the mist, you get wet.

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

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

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

When we understand that peace is not dependent on external conditions, we can find it in the midst of any circumstance.

The awareness that you are here, right now, is the ultimate fact.

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

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

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

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

Just to be alive is enough.

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.

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.

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

The Noble Eightfold Path is not a path of mere intellectual understanding but a path of practice, of inner transformation.

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

The Dhamma unfolds in accordance with a definite sequence: faith, virtue, learning, generosity, wisdom, and insight.

The dharma is not about collecting more beliefs but about becoming free from the power of belief itself.

The mind is intrinsically empty. It's empty of all that we perceive as being intrinsically "me" and "mine."

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

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

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.