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

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

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

The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.

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

The first noble truth of the Buddha is that life contains suffering. The second noble truth is that the cause of suffering is craving.

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

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

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

There is no difference at all between samsara and nirvana. There is no difference at all between nirvana and samsara.

Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

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

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

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

The essence of all phenomena is empty and clear like space. The nature of mind is awareness-emptiness like the sun and sky.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Since all things are empty of inherent existence, anything is possible. If things had inherent existence, nothing would be possible.

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

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

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

Those who cling to perceptions and views wander the world offending people.

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?

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

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.

Suffering is not the end of the story; it is the middle of the story.

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.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

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

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

The Buddha's path is not about becoming somebody different but about becoming more and more who you really are.

Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.

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

The time of the past becomes the present, the time of the present becomes the future, the time of the future becomes the present, and the time of the present becomes the past.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The goal of Buddhist practice is not to escape from the world but to transform our relationship with it.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

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