The deepest form of happiness comes from discovering the natural peace of our own awareness.

Enlightenment is the realization that we were never really separate from one another or from all of life.

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

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

The root of all suffering is ignorance. The antidote to ignorance is wisdom that realizes emptiness.

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

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.

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.

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 ultimate purpose of Buddhism is to serve and benefit humanity.

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

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

The nature of the mind is like the sky, and our thoughts, emotions, and experiences are like clouds passing through it.

Your own treasure house contains everything you need; why search outside?

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

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

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

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

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

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

The essence of the spiritual journey is the uncovering of what is always already present.

Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.

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

The mind that sees its own nature becomes free from all extremes.

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

There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.

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

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

Dependent origination is not a theory about the origin of the world but a teaching that shows how suffering originates in dependence on our own mental processes.

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

Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.

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

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

Wisdom is not something we have to strive to acquire. Rather, wisdom arises naturally as we open our hearts to the truth of what is.

The deepest happiness comes from having an enduring sense of purpose, one that gives our lives meaning beyond the endless pursuit of pleasure and success.

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

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

The mind of the past is ungraspable; the mind of the future is ungraspable; the mind of the present is ungraspable.

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

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

The experience of emptiness engenders compassion.

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.

Awareness is always with us. We don't need to create it or achieve it - we just need to recognize what's already there.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Just to be alive is enough.

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.

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

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

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

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

Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher.

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

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

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