Like a dream, like an illusion, like a city of gandharvas, that's how birth, and that's how living, that's how dying are taught to be.

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

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

Enlightenment is not about becoming divine. Instead, it's about becoming more fully human.

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

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

The more you understand, the more you love; the more you love, the more you understand.

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

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

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

Our true nature is like a diamond - pure, brilliant, and indestructible. No matter how much dirt covers it, its essential nature remains unchanged.

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

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.

Zen in its essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's own being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom.

The only things that are truly mine are my actions and their results.

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

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.

True peace is found not in the absence of experience but in the clear seeing of all experience.

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

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

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

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

The essence of Buddhism is not a belief system but a systematic investigation of our experience.

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

Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.

The sign of wisdom is constant joy.

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 nature of mind is the unity of awareness and emptiness.

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

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

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

Karma is not fate but the law of moral causation, showing us that we are the architects of our own destiny.

The experience of emptiness engenders compassion.

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

All that appears and exists, all of samsara and nirvana, has one ground, two paths, and two results. This is the magical display of awareness and unawareness.

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

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

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

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

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.

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

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

Appearances are mind, mind itself is emptiness, emptiness itself is spontaneous presence.

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

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

This very body is the Buddha. And this very earth the lotus paradise.

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

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

The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience, which in its very nature transcends linguistics.

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

When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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