To live is enough.

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

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

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

Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.

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

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

When the iron bird flies and horses run on wheels, the Tibetan people will be scattered like ants across the face of the earth.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The path of practice moves from faith through understanding to direct realization.

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

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

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

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

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

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

To see the truth, do not be for or against. The struggle between for and against is the mind's worst disease.

Expectations are the thieves of joy.

Like a dream, like an illusion, like a city of gandharvas, that's how birth, and that's how living, that's how dying are taught to be.

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

The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not.

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

The Four Noble Truths are not mere doctrinal propositions but a framework for understanding and transforming our lives.

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

Enlightenment is not about becoming divine. Instead, it's about becoming more fully human.

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.

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

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

Sankharas are the seeds of consciousness that manifest as sensations. By observing sensations equanimously, we stop creating new sankharas.

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

Those who understand interdependent origination understand suffering, its origin, its cessation, and the path.

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

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

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

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.

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

To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma.

The realization of impermanence leads not to despair but to a deeper appreciation of the preciousness of each moment.

The nature of mind is like a mirror. It is not affected by whatever appears in it, yet it never fails to reflect everything perfectly.

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.

Life is available only in the present moment.

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

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

The spiritual journey begins with the recognition that beneath our surface happiness there lies a deep inner pain.

In our struggle for freedom, truth is the only weapon we possess.

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

Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.

The present moment is the only moment available to us, and it is the door to all moments.

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

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

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

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

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

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

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