The path to enlightenment is not a path at all. It is a realization that where you are is where you have always been.

The more we understand our mind, the more we understand the world.

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

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

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

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

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

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

The ultimate purpose of Buddhism is to serve and benefit humanity.

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

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

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

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.

Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.

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

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

Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.

All experiences are preceded by mind, having mind as their master, created by mind.

The Buddha's teaching is a teaching of self-reliance, of being one's own master, one's own refuge.

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

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

Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.

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

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

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

The sign of wisdom is constant joy.

The root of all suffering is ignorance. The antidote to ignorance is wisdom that realizes emptiness.

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

Wisdom is not something we have to strive to acquire. Rather, wisdom arises naturally as we open our hearts to the truth of what is.

Zen in its essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's own being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom.

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

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

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

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

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.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

The experience of emptiness engenders compassion.

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 three characteristics - impermanence, suffering, and non-self - are not philosophical concepts but aspects of experience to be directly observed.

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

True happiness is not found through the multiplication of desires but through their simplification.

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

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

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

The nature of everything is empty and clear, and the mind is beyond both existence and nonexistence.

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

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

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

The purpose of our lives is to be happy, and happiness is found in benefiting others.

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

Although all phenomena are empty of inherent existence, they function perfectly well.

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

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

Recognize the emptiness of all phenomena, but do not become attached to emptiness itself.

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

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

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.

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

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.