The practice of mindfulness is the practice of being alive in the present moment.

Where there is great doubt, there is great awakening; small doubt, small awakening; no doubt, no awakening.

Right practice is steady practice. Whether you feel lazy or diligent, just keep practicing.

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

Concentration develops naturally through continuous noting. Don't try to force concentration to arise.

In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived, how well we have loved, how well we have learned to let go.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

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

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

The practitioner and practice are like fire and wood. The more you practice, the more you burn.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.

What is the sound of one hand clapping?

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

When things fall apart and we're on the verge of we know not what, the test of each of us is to stay on that brink and not concretize.

Where is the place that your original face has not yet emerged?

The path is not about perfecting ourselves, but about perfecting our love.

External seeking only leads to exhaustion. When you imitate others, you lose your own authenticity.

Mindfulness means keeping one's consciousness alive to the present reality.

The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.

Life is nothing but a continuous chain of sensations. Pleasant or unpleasant, observe them objectively.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

There is no need to have a deep understanding of Zen. Even though you read much Zen literature, you must read each sentence with a fresh mind.

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.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

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

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

Hasten slowly and you will soon arrive.

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

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

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

The grass is greener where you water it.

Better to have one moment of genuine meditation than to perform religious activities for a thousand years.

Zen is a way of life, not a theory or a piece of knowledge to be stored away in our minds.

When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything. When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything.

The practice is not about achieving special states but about seeing ordinary experience with extraordinary clarity.

The highest mantra is to be without deception. The highest medicine is to have few desires. The highest meditation is not to be attached.

Concentration and insight are like two wings of a bird: both are necessary for the flight to liberation.

True peace comes not from controlling the world, but from letting go of control.

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

The way to change the world is to change your own mind.

Your mind is like a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds. You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds.

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

The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own sense of well-being becomes.

Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past could have been any different.

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

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

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

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

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.

When mindfulness and concentration are strong, insight into the three characteristics naturally unfolds.

When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

If you want to climb a mountain, begin at the top.

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.

Self-awareness is the key to freedom. The more we understand ourselves, the more we understand how to be free.

Each moment of noting is a moment of purification, a moment of cultivating the path.

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

Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as your capacity to ground your attention in the present moment.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.