Those who cling to perceptions and views wander the world offending people.

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

Emptiness is not nothingness. Emptiness is the space of possibility.

The Buddha's path is not about becoming somebody different but about becoming more and more who you really are.

The sign of wisdom is constant joy.

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.

Appearances are mind, mind itself is emptiness, emptiness itself is spontaneous presence.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

The practice of vipassana is the study of the self. When you study physical and mental phenomena, you are studying the truth about yourself.

We should find perfect existence through imperfect existence.

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

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

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

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

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

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

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

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.

The mind is like water. When it's turbulent, it's difficult to see. When it's calm, everything becomes clear.

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

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

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

True happiness is not found through the multiplication of desires but through their simplification.

There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.

The path of insight is a path of discovery, not a path of creation. We are discovering what is already there.

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

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

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

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

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.

The one who grasps at existence suffers in samsara, while the one who grasps at non-existence will find no liberation.

The path to liberation is through understanding the true nature of mind and matter through direct observation.

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

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

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

Our true nature is like a diamond - pure, brilliant, and indestructible. No matter how much dirt covers it, its essential nature remains unchanged.

Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: you won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.

Whatever is dependently co-arisen, that is explained to be emptiness. That, being a dependent designation, is itself the middle way.

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

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

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 forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things.

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

Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.

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

The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

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

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

Enlightenment is the realization that we were never really separate from one another or from all of life.

The secret of happiness is to want what you already have.