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

Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.

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

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

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.

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

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

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

The deepest happiness comes from having an enduring sense of purpose, one that gives our lives meaning beyond the endless pursuit of pleasure and success.

Suffering comes from our resistance to what is. Peace comes from our acceptance of what is.

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

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

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.

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

The mind that notes and the object that is noted are both impermanent. Understanding this leads to liberation.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy. This is the goal of Buddhist practice.

The only things that are truly mine are my actions and their results.

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?

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

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

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

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

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

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

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

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

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

All that appears and exists, all of samsara and nirvana, has one ground, two paths, and two results. This is the magical display of awareness and unawareness.

People who study a lot but don't practice are like a ladle in a soup pot. It's in the soup every day, but it doesn't know the taste of the soup.

Everybody has the light of Buddha within, but they don't look for it.

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

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

The root of suffering is attachment.

My father is the intrinsic awareness, Samantabhadra. My mother is the ultimate sphere of reality, Samantabhadri. I belong to the caste of non-duality of these two.

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure.

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

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

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

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

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

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

The mind is intrinsically empty. It's empty of all that we perceive as being intrinsically "me" and "mine."

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

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

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

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

True happiness is not about getting rid of all our problems, but about changing our relationship to them.

The teaching of the Buddha is based on two truths: conventional truth and ultimate truth. Without understanding the relationship between these two, the deeper meaning of the Buddha's teaching cannot be understood.

Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.

Altruism is not a luxury, it is a necessity for the survival of humanity.

The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment.

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

Ethical conduct is not a constraint upon our freedom but a condition of our freedom.

Trees, mountains, and vines all exist in nature according to their own truth. They are born and die following their nature. They remain this way because that's what they are. They don't practice meditation or do anything special.

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

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

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

The mind is the forerunner of all things. Our present life is the result of our past thoughts, and our future life will be the result of our present thoughts.

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

The truth of suffering is not to be feared but to be understood through direct observation.