Enlightenment is not the end of change but the end of resistance to change.

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

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.

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

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

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

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

People who study a lot but don't practice are like a ladle in a soup pot. It's in the soup every day, but it doesn't know the taste of the soup.

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

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

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

The teaching of the Buddha is based on two truths: conventional truth and ultimate truth. Without understanding the relationship between these two, the deeper meaning of the Buddha's teaching cannot be understood.

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

The menu is not the meal.

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

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

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

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

If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer.

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

The deepest happiness comes from having an enduring sense of purpose, one that gives our lives meaning beyond the endless pursuit of pleasure and success.

The path is not about moving from one place to another. It's about recognizing where we already are.

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

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

The nature of mind is like a mirror. It is not affected by whatever appears in it, yet it never fails to reflect everything perfectly.

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.

Real happiness comes from having an unshakable connection to the deep wellspring of peace and happiness that is not dependent on external conditions.

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

The key to the Buddha's teaching is not grasping, not trying to hold onto things that are essentially impermanent and unstable.

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

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

The defilements of the mind are temporary visitors. Pure awareness is your true home.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The practice of ethics is not about following rules but about developing inner purity and freedom.

Just to be alive is enough.

What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil.

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

The mind of the past is ungraspable; the mind of the future is ungraspable; the mind of the present is ungraspable.

Only one book is worth reading: the heart.

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

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

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

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

Enlightenment is not about becoming divine. Instead, it's about becoming more fully human.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

The sign of wisdom is constant joy.

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

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

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.