Your own treasure house contains everything you need; why search outside?

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

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

The more you understand, the more you love; the more you love, the more you understand.

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

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

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

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

The purpose of meditation is to gain right understanding of the true nature of mental and physical phenomena.

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

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

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

When you are you, Zen is Zen. Big mind is just big mind.

The practice of Buddhism is fundamentally a practice of expanding our happiness and diminishing our suffering.

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?

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

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

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

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

Whatever precious jewel there is in the heavenly worlds, there is nothing comparable to one who is awakened.

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

When mindfulness becomes continuous, the distinction between the observer and the observed begins to break down.

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

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

The path of awakening is not about becoming who we think we should be, but about unbecoming who we are not.

The true person is not anyone in particular. But like the deep blue color of the limitless sky, it is everyone, everywhere in the world.

The water in the ocean can be rough or calm. It can be clear or murky. But the water itself doesn't mind.

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

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

The difference between buddhas and sentient beings is that buddhas recognize their nature while sentient beings fail to recognize it.

Zen is not necessarily against words, but it is well aware of their limitations.

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.

My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground upon which I stand.

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

What we learn about the world is colored by the way we approach it.

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

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

If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer.

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

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

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

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

The experience of emptiness engenders compassion.

In the spiritual world there are no time divisions such as the past, present and future; for they have contracted themselves into a single moment of the present where life quivers in its true sense.

The Buddha's teaching is not a philosophical system but a practical guide to living.

The root of suffering is attachment.

Expectations are the thieves of joy.

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.

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

Impermanence, suffering, and non-self are not philosophical concepts but realities to be directly perceived through mindfulness practice.

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

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

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

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

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

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

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

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

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