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

Life is available only in the present moment.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

When we know the truth, we become people who don't have to think much, we become people with wisdom.

The practice of ethics is not about following rules but about developing inner purity and freedom.

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 secret of happiness is to want what you already have.

Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.

Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.

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

The Buddha's teaching is not about belief but about investigation, not about accepting but about examining.

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

The secret of happiness lies not in getting what we want, but in learning to want what we already have.

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

The Buddha's teachings are not a religion, but a science of mind.

To live is enough.

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

The realization of impermanence leads not to despair but to a deeper appreciation of the preciousness of each moment.

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

Happiness is not the pursuit of an endless succession of experiences but an attitude toward life.

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.

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

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 to liberation requires both understanding and practice, both pariyatti and patipatti.

The difference between buddhas and sentient beings is that buddhas recognize their nature while sentient beings fail to recognize it.

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

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

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

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

The Buddha's teaching is not a philosophical system but a practical guide to living.

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

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

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

The more you understand impermanence, the more you appreciate every moment.

Wisdom is not about accumulating knowledge, but about seeing through all knowledge.

The ocean does not reject any water; therefore it is great. The mountain does not select its stones; therefore it is great.

The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

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

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

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

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

The one who grasps at existence suffers in samsara, while the one who grasps at non-existence will find no liberation.

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

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.

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.

Change is the nature of every phenomenon. Accept this truth and you will live a happy life.

The lamp of wisdom burns constantly, illuminating the nature of mind.

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.

When concentration is developed, wisdom arises. When wisdom arises, one becomes disenchanted with the five aggregates.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

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

Enlightenment is not the end of change but the end of resistance to change.

The sign of wisdom is constant joy.

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