The most profound meditation is to think nothing at all.

The four foundations of mindfulness are not separate practices but different aspects of the same practice of clear awareness.

Time passes unhindered. When we make ourselves better, we make the world better.

You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can't solve your own doubts. Investigate yourself to find the truth - inside, not outside.

Face your own anger and you will be free from anger. Face your own fears and you will be free from fear.

The way to overcome anger is to be too busy being kind to have time to be angry.

Conquer anger with non-anger. Conquer evil with good. Conquer stinginess with giving. Conquer deceit with truth.

The only way to experience truth is to look within, to observe oneself.

May all beings be happy, be peaceful, be liberated.

Zazen is not step-by-step meditation. Rather it is simply the easy and pleasant practice of a Buddha, the realization of the Buddha's Wisdom.

If you love someone, the greatest gift you can give them is your presence.

The past is gone, the future is not yet here. Live in the present moment with awareness.

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.

Work diligently. Diligently. Work patiently and persistently. Patiently and persistently. And you're bound to be successful. Bound to be successful.

The mind has first to be attuned to the Unconscious.

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.

Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we're holding back.

Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.

The practice of mindfulness is simply to bring awareness to what we are doing, what we are saying, and what we are thinking.

Wisdom and compassion must be developed equally and harmoniously.

Meditation is not about trying to change your experience; it's about changing your relationship to your experience.

Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have - it is an inner quality that unfolds as we learn to trust our own deepest experience.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

When you listen to someone, you should give up all your preconceived ideas and your subjective opinions.

There are many ways to meditate. But at the heart of them all is mindfulness.

The Four Noble Truths are not merely theoretical propositions but a framework for understanding and transforming our experience.

We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's hearts.

The rising and falling of the abdomen is not the main object. The main object is to develop mindfulness, concentration, and insight.

The Buddha's teaching is not a philosophy or a religion; it is a method of practice.

The greatest obstacle to meditation is our expectation about what it should be.

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

Love is not a feeling. It's a capability.

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

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself.

The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought.

Compassion is the radicalism of our time.

What you are is what you have been. What you'll be is what you do now.

The greatest achievement is selflessness. The greatest worth is self-mastery.

Should you desire the great tranquility, prepare to sweat white beads.

True love is not for the faint-hearted.

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

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

Moment after moment, completely devote yourself to listening to your inner voice.

When you note effectively, there is no time for defilements to arise. The mind becomes pure through noting.

Don't try to change the world. First, change yourself.

The key to transformation is not to fight with our experience but to open to it with awareness.

Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts.

When mindfulness is weak, defilements are strong; when mindfulness is strong, defilements are weak.

Don't think that only sitting with the eyes closed is practice. If you do think this way, then quickly change your thinking.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

The practice of Buddhism is fundamentally a practice of expanding our happiness and diminishing our suffering.

If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace. If you let go completely, you will have complete peace.

In true vipassana practice, there is no room for likes and dislikes. There is only observation.

Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it.

Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.

The goal of meditation is not to achieve a blank mind, but to gain insight into the nature of mind itself.

Personal experience is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.

Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken! Take heed, do not squander your life.

The master's introduction is direct recognition of one's own nature. Meditation is maintaining the continuity of this recognition.