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

If you forget yourself, you become the universe.

Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.

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

Just to be alive is enough.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Happiness is not the pursuit of an endless succession of experiences but an attitude toward life.

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

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

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.

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

Awareness is the basis, or what you might call the "support," of the mind. It is steady and unchanging, like the pole to which the flag of ordinary consciousness is attached.

Expectations are the thieves of joy.

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

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

The basic teaching of Buddhism is the teaching of transiency, or change.

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

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

True peace is found not in the absence of experience but in the clear seeing of all experience.

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

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

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

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

To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things.

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

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

True happiness is born of letting go of what is unnecessary.

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

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 willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.

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

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

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.

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

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.

The knowledge of dissolution comes when you see both the noting mind and noted object dissolving together.

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

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.

Life is available only in the present moment.

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

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

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

The way we look at the world is the way the world looks.

When one sees with wisdom that all phenomena are empty of inherent existence, one is liberated from suffering.

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

The instant you speak about a thing, you miss the mark.

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

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

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

The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

All experiences are preceded by mind, having mind as their master, created by mind.