Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.

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.

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

Don't be a bodhisatta; don't be an arahant; don't be anything at all. Being something makes you suffer.

The Dhamma is not a collection of doctrinal formulas but a path leading to direct insight into the nature of reality.

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

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

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

External phenomena are like a dream, whatever appears is not real. Recognize the nature of dream-like phenomena to be dream-like.

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.

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

When you walk in the mist, you get wet.

Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.

To live – is that not enough? To love – is that not everything?

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

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

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

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

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

If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The sign of wisdom is constant joy.

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

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

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

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

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

Suffering is not the end of the story; it is the middle of the story.

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

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.

The Buddha and all sentient beings are nothing but expressions of the one mind. There is nothing else.

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.

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

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.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

When mindfulness becomes continuous, the distinction between the observer and the observed begins to break down.

Wherever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

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.

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

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

All experiences are preceded by mind, having mind as their master, created by mind.