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

If you want to know your past life, look at your present condition. If you want to know your future life, look at your present actions.

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

Life is like a cup of tea. It's all in how you make it.

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

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

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

Life is available only in the present moment.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

To live fully is to let go and die with each step.

For whom emptiness is possible, everything is possible. For whom emptiness is not possible, nothing is possible.

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

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

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

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 root of suffering is attachment.

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

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

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

To live is enough.

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

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

Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.

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

Impermanence, suffering, and non-self are not philosophical concepts but realities to be directly perceived through mindfulness practice.

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

Change is possible because there is nothing inherently permanent about our disturbing emotions.

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

Everybody has the light of Buddha within, but they don't look for it.

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

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

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

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

If you want to know your past life, look into your present condition; if you want to know your future life, look into your present actions.

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

Happiness is not about getting what you want, but wanting what you've got.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

The more we understand the nature of our mind, the more we understand the nature of our world.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy, and happiness is found in benefiting others.

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

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

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Enlightenment is not about becoming something special, but about realizing what we already are.

Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.

The path of practice requires both faith and wisdom, both devotion and understanding.

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

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

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.

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

True happiness is not about getting rid of all our problems, but about changing our relationship to them.

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

The Buddha's teaching is a middle way between all extremes, between eternalism and annihilationism, between self-indulgence and self-torture.

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

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

When you recognize that pain and suffering are impermanent, you become free.

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

Each moment of clear seeing is a moment of freedom from the illusion of permanence, satisfaction, and self.

Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water. The moon does not get wet, nor is the water broken.