Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.

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

By understanding emptiness, one understands all phenomena. Without understanding emptiness, one understands nothing.

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

When you walk in the mist, you get wet.

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

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.

Those who cling to perceptions and views wander the world offending people.

In our struggle for freedom, truth is the only weapon we possess.

There is no difference at all between samsara and nirvana. There is no difference at all between nirvana and samsara.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

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

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

When you realize the emptiness of all phenomena, compassion will arise in your heart for all sentient beings who do not understand this truth.

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

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

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

When we understand that peace is not dependent on external conditions, we can find it in the midst of any circumstance.

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

Change is possible because there is nothing inherently permanent about our disturbing emotions.

Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?

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

The dharma is not about collecting more beliefs but about becoming free from the power of belief itself.

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

The essence of the teaching is emptiness and compassion. Without emptiness, compassion can become attachment. Without compassion, emptiness can become cold and distant.

The mind is the forerunner of all things. Our present life is the result of our past thoughts, and our future life will be the result of our present thoughts.

The nature of all things is like a magical illusion, a mirage, a dream, a reflection of the moon in water.

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

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

When you recognize that pain and suffering are impermanent, you become free.

The nature of everything is illusory and ephemeral, those with dualistic perception regard suffering as happiness, like they who lick the honey from a razor's edge.

Right View is not just a matter of intellectual understanding but of seeing things as they really are.

The basic teaching of Buddhism is the teaching of transiency, or change.

True freedom is a freedom from the tyranny of our own thoughts and afflictive emotions.

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

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

Past thoughts are traceless, clear, and empty. Future thoughts are unborn and fresh. The present moment abides naturally and unconstructed.

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

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

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

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

The world is its own magic.

The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

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

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.

Only one book is worth reading: the heart.

The root of suffering is attachment.

The Buddha taught us to leave alone the things that don't lead to awakening.

True happiness is not found through the multiplication of desires but through their simplification.

The five aggregates are not a theoretical model but a description of lived experience to be investigated through mindfulness.

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.

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

To see the truth, do not be for or against. The struggle between for and against is the mind's worst disease.

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

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

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

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

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 willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.

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