The path to liberation is a gradual path of self-discipline, self-development, and self-transformation.

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.

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

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

The whole path of mindfulness is about letting go. We let go of our attachment to our views, our attachment to our opinions, our attachment to our ideas.

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

The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain.

We can learn to be present with whatever is happening in our lives, and in this way, we can begin to transform our relationship to difficulty.

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

Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.

Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.

The Buddha's teaching is a middle way between all extremes, between eternalism and annihilationism, between self-indulgence and self-torture.

The truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect.

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness.

The dharma is not in the books. If you want to find the dharma, look in your mind.

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 measure of success in spiritual life is how peaceful you are.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is relax.

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

Observe the reality as it is, not as you wish it to be.

In the moment of love, awareness is very strong. Use that awareness, that strength of consciousness, to look into yourself.

Mindfulness is the key to transformation. It enables us to see our experience as it really is, free from distortion and bias.

When you generate negativity, you are the first victim of your negativity.

Vipassana is the art of living. Not the art of escaping.

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

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

If it isn't good, let it die. If it doesn't die, make it good.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

The snow lion stays in the mountains, and the snow lion's ways are the snow lion's ways.

Meditation is not about stopping thoughts, but recognizing that we are not our thoughts.

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

The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.

When we look directly at our thoughts, they dissolve like bubbles in water.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.

Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone.

When you note pain, you are not trying to make it go away. You are trying to understand its true nature.

Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes.

Rather than letting our negativity get the better of us, we could acknowledge that right now we feel like a piece of shit and not be squeamish about taking a good look.

The practice of mindfulness is simple: whatever you experience, you observe and note it.

The development of wisdom does not occur in isolation but requires the cultivation of the entire Noble Eightfold Path.

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.

The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous. Then they will be in control in a wider sense.

Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with them.

Every sensation shares the same characteristic - arising, passing. Arising, passing. Learn to observe objectively.

The law of nature is the law of cause and effect. As you sow, so shall you reap.

The real purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

The Noble Eightfold Path is a path of training: training in ethical conduct, training in mental discipline, and training in wisdom.

When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.

As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home.

The most important thing in life is to know death is coming and to prepare for it.

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

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

True love is not for the faint-hearted.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Meditation is not just about sitting quietly, it's about transforming the mind.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.