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

Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.

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

Past thoughts are traceless, clear, and empty. Future thoughts are unborn and fresh. The present moment abides naturally and unconstructed.

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

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

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

Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.

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

The instant you speak about a thing, you miss the mark.

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

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

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

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.

Real freedom is not about controlling our experience, but about being free within our experience.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Without darkness, there is no light. Without the path, there is no arrival.

Loving-kindness is not something we need to manufacture. It's a natural expression of our awakened nature.

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

The experience of emptiness engenders compassion.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher.

Enlightenment is not the end of change but the end of resistance to change.

The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

If I had any position, I would thereby have a flaw. But since I have no position, I alone am without flaw.

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.

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.

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.

Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.

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 nature of the mind is like the sky, and our thoughts, emotions, and experiences are like clouds passing through it.

The mind is the source of all happiness and the source of all suffering.

All beings by nature are Buddha, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddha.

The quality of every moment depends on the state of our minds.

Awareness is the basis, or what you might call the "support," of the mind. It is steady and unchanging, like the pole to which the flag of ordinary consciousness is attached.

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.

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 secret of happiness is to want what you already have.

The cultivation of loving-kindness is the thread that runs through all Buddhist teachings.

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

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

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

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

In Zen there must be satori; there must be a general mental upheaval which destroys the old accumulations of intellection and lays down the foundation for a new life.

When concentration is developed, wisdom arises. When wisdom arises, one becomes disenchanted with the five aggregates.

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