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

Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.

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

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

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

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

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

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

To live is enough.

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

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

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

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.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

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

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

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.

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

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.

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

The purpose of Buddhist practice is not to become a Buddhist but to awaken to the nature of reality.

The key to the Buddha's teaching is not grasping, not trying to hold onto things that are essentially impermanent and unstable.

The biggest prison is the one we build in our own mind.

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

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.

Your own treasure house contains everything you need; why search outside?

To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma.

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, just as ice and water are of the same substance.

The nature of all things is like a magical illusion, a mirage, a dream, a reflection of the moon in water.

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

The Buddha's teaching challenges us to master the art of living, to live in a way that leads to the extinction of suffering.

The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

When you are you, Zen is Zen. Big mind is just big mind.

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

Nothing is permanent. Everything is subject to change. Being is always becoming.

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

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

The present moment is the only moment available to us, and it is the door to all moments.

Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

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

Only one book is worth reading: the heart.

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

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

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 more we understand impermanence, the more we appreciate each moment of our lives.

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

Those who grasp at things as truly existent are like someone trying to catch the reflection of the moon in water.

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

We should find perfect existence through imperfect existence.

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

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

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

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

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

True freedom is a freedom from the tyranny of our own thoughts and afflictive emotions.