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

Life is available only in the present moment.

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

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

The essence of mind is empty like space; yet it contains all things, like a mirror.

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

In the moment of pure noting, there is no self - only the knowing and the known.

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

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

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

The nature of everything is illusory and ephemeral, those with dualistic perception regard suffering as happiness, like they who lick the honey from a razor's edge.

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

The true person is not anyone in particular. But like the deep blue color of the limitless sky, it is everyone, everywhere in the world.

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

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

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

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.

My father is the intrinsic awareness, Samantabhadra. My mother is the ultimate sphere of reality, Samantabhadri. I belong to the caste of non-duality of these two.

The path is not about moving from one place to another. It's about recognizing where we already are.

Whatever is dependently co-arisen, that is explained to be emptiness. That, being a dependent designation, is itself the middle way.

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

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

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.

Ethical conduct is not a constraint upon our freedom but a condition of our freedom.

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

The teaching of the Buddha is based on two truths: conventional truth and ultimate truth. Without understanding the relationship between these two, the deeper meaning of the Buddha's teaching cannot be understood.

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

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

Birth and death are neither two things nor one thing. Life is not an appearance, death is not a disappearance.

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

The Buddha taught us to leave alone the things that don't lead to awakening.

The experience of emptiness engenders compassion.

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

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

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

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

The nature of mind is like a mirror. It is not affected by whatever appears in it, yet it never fails to reflect everything perfectly.

The goal of the Buddhist path is not to add something to our existence but to discover something that has been there all along.

The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

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

Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.

The purpose of meditation is to gain right understanding of the true nature of mental and physical phenomena.

People who study a lot but don't practice are like a ladle in a soup pot. It's in the soup every day, but it doesn't know the taste of the soup.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Right View is not just a matter of intellectual understanding but of seeing things as they really are.

Real happiness comes from having an unshakable connection to the deep wellspring of peace and happiness that is not dependent on external conditions.

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

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

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.

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

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

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

The path of practice moves from faith through understanding to direct realization.