Because you are alive, everything is possible.

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

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

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

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

Real peace comes from seeing things as they really are, not as we want them to be.

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

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

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

The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not.

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

The mind that sees its own nature becomes free from all extremes.

Life is an art, and like perfect art it should be self-forgetting.

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

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

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

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.

The highest truth cannot be taught except through the conventional truth.

The Four Noble Truths are not merely theoretical propositions but a framework for understanding and transforming our experience.

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

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

The more you understand impermanence, the more you appreciate every moment.

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

The biggest prison is the one we build in our own mind.

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

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

The mind that notes and the object that is noted are both impermanent. Understanding this leads to liberation.

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

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

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

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 secret of happiness lies not in getting what we want, but in learning to want what we already have.

Wisdom arises when you see the true characteristics of phenomena through direct experience.

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

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

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

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

The Buddha and all sentient beings are nothing but expressions of the one mind. There is nothing else.

Real freedom is not about controlling our experience, but about being free within our experience.

When we know the truth, we become people who don't have to think much, we become people with wisdom.

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.

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

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.

You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.

The more we understand impermanence, the more we understand that we can't hold on to anything.

Past thoughts are traceless, clear, and empty. Future thoughts are unborn and fresh. The present moment abides naturally and unconstructed.

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

To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things.

Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, just as ice and water are of the same substance.

The truth of suffering is not to be feared but to be understood through direct observation.

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.

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

Only one book is worth reading: the heart.

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

Zen in its essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's own being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom.

The present moment is the only moment available to us, and it is the door to all moments.

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

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.

Trees, mountains, and vines all exist in nature according to their own truth. They are born and die following their nature. They remain this way because that's what they are. They don't practice meditation or do anything special.

Loving-kindness is not something we need to manufacture. It's a natural expression of our awakened nature.