The path of insight is a path of discovery, not a path of creation. We are discovering what is already there.

Life is available only in the present moment.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The way we look at the world is the way the world looks.

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

Don't try to push away the darkness. Just light a lamp. The darkness will disappear by itself.

Peace is not found by changing the world, but by changing your attitude to the world.

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

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

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

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

The world is its own magic.

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

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

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

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

The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience, which in its very nature transcends linguistics.

The essence of the teaching is emptiness and compassion. Without emptiness, compassion can become attachment. Without compassion, emptiness can become cold and distant.

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

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

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

The path to liberation requires both individual effort and the support of the spiritual community.

Happiness is not about getting what you want, but wanting what you've got.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

Awareness is always with us. We don't need to create it or achieve it - we just need to recognize what's already there.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

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

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

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

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

The dharma is not about collecting more beliefs but about becoming free from the power of belief itself.

Just as the wise do not take a mirage to be water, nor an echo to be a voice, so the enlightened do not take the world to be real.

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 mind is like water. When it's turbulent, it's difficult to see. When it's calm, everything becomes clear.

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

Don't take life too seriously. No one gets out alive anyway.

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

The law of nature is the law of cause and effect. As you sow, so shall you reap.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Enlightenment is not about becoming something special, but about realizing what we already are.

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

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

Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.

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

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

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.

When you walk in the mist, you get wet.

The root of suffering is not in the world outside us but in our own minds.

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

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