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

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

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

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.

Instead of having a deep understanding of the teaching, we need a strong confidence in our teaching, which says that originally we have Buddha nature.

Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.

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

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

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

Our true nature is like a diamond - pure, brilliant, and indestructible. No matter how much dirt covers it, its essential nature remains unchanged.

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

Through continuous mindfulness practice, the true nature of physical and mental phenomena becomes clear.

When we understand that peace is not dependent on external conditions, we can find it in the midst of any circumstance.

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

The knowledge of dissolution comes when you see both the noting mind and noted object dissolving together.

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

To live is enough.

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

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

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

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

Real happiness lies within. It cannot be found in external objects or achievements.

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

The root of suffering is attachment.

When you walk in the mist, you get wet.

The dharma wheel turns from the beginning. There is neither excess nor deficiency. The whole universe is moistened with nectar, and the truth is ready to harvest.

The nature of mind is not something we need to achieve - it's something we need to recognize.

When you understand that all phenomena are impermanent, unsatisfactory, and non-self, attachment naturally falls away.

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

Karma is not fate but the law of moral causation, showing us that we are the architects of our own destiny.

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

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

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

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

The experience of emptiness engenders compassion.

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.

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

Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.

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

Life is an art, and like perfect art it should be self-forgetting.

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

The person who clings to nothing of the past, present and future, who has no attachment and no aversion, has no conceptual imprints.

The menu is not the meal.

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

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

The way is basically perfect. It is not a matter of practice or enlightenment.

The path to liberation is through understanding the true nature of mind and matter through direct observation.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

To see the truth, do not be for or against. The struggle between for and against is the mind's worst disease.

We should find perfect existence through imperfect existence.

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