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

This very body is the Buddha. And this very earth the lotus paradise.

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

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.

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

Don't try to push away the darkness. Just light a lamp. The darkness will disappear by itself.

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

The nature of the mind is like the sky, and our thoughts, emotions, and experiences are like clouds passing through it.

The nature of mind is the unity of awareness and emptiness.

The six realms of existence are like a dream, why build a prison for yourself?

The eye with which I see Buddha is the same eye with which Buddha sees me.

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

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 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.

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.

Suffering is not the end of the story; it is the middle of the story.

The dharma is not about collecting more beliefs but about becoming free from the power of belief itself.

Life is available only in the present moment.

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.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

The essence of mind is empty like space; yet it contains all things, like a mirror.

What we call "I" is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale.

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.

Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.

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

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

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

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

Buddhas and ordinary beings are not two. Enlightenment and delusion are not different paths.

Happiness is found in the simplest of things. It is not in the things you own, but in the love you share.

The past is just a memory. The future is just a dream. Be here now.

The ultimate revolution is the spiritual revolution, where we learn to see reality as it truly is.

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

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

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

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

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

Recognize the emptiness of all phenomena, but do not become attached to emptiness itself.

In the beginning, nothing comes, in the middle nothing stays, in the end nothing goes.

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

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

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

Wisdom is not something we have to strive to acquire. Rather, wisdom arises naturally as we open our hearts to the truth of what is.

When you walk in the mist, you get wet.

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

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

True freedom is not the absence of commitment but the presence of choice.

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

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

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

The victorious ones have said that emptiness is the relinquishing of all views. Those who are possessed of the view of emptiness are said to be incurable.

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

Love is the wish that others be happy, and compassion is the wish that they be free from suffering.

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

External phenomena are like a dream, whatever appears is not real. Recognize the nature of dream-like phenomena to be dream-like.

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