The Buddha's teachings are not a religion, but a science of mind.

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

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.

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

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

The Buddha never taught a sectarian religion; he taught Dhamma - the way to liberation - which is universal.

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

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.

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

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

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

Wisdom arises when you see the true characteristics of phenomena through direct experience.

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

If you want to know the past, look at the present. If you want to know the future, look at the present.

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

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

The secret of happiness lies not in getting what we want, but in learning to want what we already have.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The goal of the Buddhist path is not to add something to our existence but to discover something that has been there all along.

When we understand others, we understand ourselves. When we love others, we love ourselves.

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

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

Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.

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.

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

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.

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

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

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

The nature of everything is empty and clear, and the mind is beyond both existence and nonexistence.

All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births in death.

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.

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

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

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

When you walk in the mist, you get wet.

Life is an art, and like perfect art it should be self-forgetting.

The past is for learning from, not for living in.

The path to liberation requires both understanding and practice, both pariyatti and patipatti.

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

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

The purpose of Buddhist practice is not to become a Buddhist but to awaken to the nature of reality.

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