If you want to know your past life, look into your present condition; if you want to know your future life, look into your present actions.

Just to be alive is enough.

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

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

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

What we call "I" is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale.

As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself.

The spiritual journey is not about heaven and finally getting to a place that's really swell.

Happiness is found in the simplest of things. It is not in the things you own, but in the love you share.

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

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

Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.

The past is just a memory. The future is just a dream. Be here now.

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

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.

Real peace comes from seeing things as they really are, not as we want them to be.

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

The Four Noble Truths are not merely theoretical propositions but a framework for understanding and transforming our experience.

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

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

The purpose of life is to be happy, to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is not to be well known, cited, or powerful.

The highest truth cannot be taught except through the conventional truth.

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

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

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

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

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

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

The secret of happiness is to want what you already have.

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

Craving and aversion are the roots of suffering. Observe them with equanimity.

If you want to know your past life, look at your present condition. If you want to know your future life, look at your present actions.

Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.

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.

Whatever precious jewel there is in the heavenly worlds, there is nothing comparable to one who is awakened.

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

When one sees with wisdom that all phenomena are empty of inherent existence, one is liberated from suffering.

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

For whom emptiness is possible, everything is possible. For whom emptiness is not possible, nothing is possible.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground upon which I stand.

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

The spiritual journey begins with the recognition that beneath our surface happiness there lies a deep inner pain.

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

Loving-kindness is not something we need to manufacture. It's a natural expression of our awakened nature.

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.

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

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

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

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

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

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Every being has the potential of becoming a Buddha. Our true nature is Buddha nature.

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