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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The way is basically perfect. It is not a matter of practice or enlightenment.

The Buddha's teaching challenges us to master the art of living, to live in a way that leads to the extinction of suffering.

Through continuous mindfulness practice, the true nature of physical and mental phenomena becomes clear.

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

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

All beings by nature are Buddha, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddha.

If I had any position, I would thereby have a flaw. But since I have no position, I alone am without flaw.

When you are you, Zen is Zen. Big mind is just big mind.

Awareness is always with us. We don't need to create it or achieve it - we just need to recognize what's already there.

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

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.

True freedom is a freedom from the tyranny of our own thoughts and afflictive emotions.

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

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 you understand impermanence, the more you appreciate every moment.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The only things that are truly mine are my actions and their results.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

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

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

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

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

The essence of all phenomena is empty and clear like space. The nature of mind is awareness-emptiness like the sun and sky.

Since all things are empty of inherent existence, anything is possible. If things had inherent existence, nothing would be possible.

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

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

The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life.

Just to be alive is enough.

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

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.

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 Dhamma is not a collection of doctrinal formulas but a path leading to direct insight into the nature of reality.

When you realize the emptiness of all phenomena, compassion will arise in your heart for all sentient beings who do not understand this truth.

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

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

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.

To live – is that not enough? To love – is that not everything?

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

When you walk in the mist, you get wet.

When concentration is developed, wisdom arises. When wisdom arises, one becomes disenchanted with the five aggregates.

The water in the ocean can be rough or calm. It can be clear or murky. But the water itself doesn't mind.

The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.

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