The practice of mindfulness leads naturally to concentration. Concentration leads naturally to wisdom.

Start from where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

Meditation is like catching a fish. If you try to catch it quickly, you'll miss it. If you have patience and know how to wait, the fish will come.

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

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

Each of you is perfect the way you are... and you can use a little improvement.

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

Mindfulness is the key to the present moment. Without it we cannot see the world clearly, and we cannot make the wisest choices in our lives.

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

The key to meditation is to recognize the nature of your mind rather than trying to change it.

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

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

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

The dharma is not outside of you. Looking for it elsewhere is like placing a Buddha on your head while searching for him everywhere else.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.

Zen proposes its solution by directly appealing to facts of personal experience and not to book-knowledge.

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything.

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

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

Compassion is not just about being kind to others. It's about being kind to ourselves as well.

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

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

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

The force of the kindness of others is so strong, we can't possibly measure it.

Meditation is not about achieving anything. It's about letting go of everything.

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

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live.

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

The practice of meditation is not about achieving states of bliss but about seeing things as they really are.

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

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

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.

Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.

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.

Meditation is not an escape from life but a way to fully engage with life.

Our practice cannot be perfect, but without being discouraged by this, we should continue it. This is the secret of practice.

The practice of meditation requires both energy and patience, both effort and relaxation.

Breathing in, there is only the present moment. Breathing out, it is a wonderful moment.

Our own life has to be our message.

The signs of practice are not in extraordinary experiences but in extraordinary awareness of ordinary experiences.

In the monastery of your body, the monk of your mind must stay in retreat.

Meditation is not about trying to change ourselves. Meditation is about being aware of what is.

The most important things in our practice are our physical posture and our way of breathing.

Whatever is happening is the path to enlightenment.

The door of your heart can only be opened from the inside.

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

The cave I live in is empty and so is my mind. I live simply and at ease.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

When you find your place where you are, practice occurs, actualizing the fundamental point.

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.

Each breath is a new beginning, a fresh opportunity to awaken.

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

Every moment of mindfulness is a step on the path to liberation. Each step is valuable, no matter how small.

Do everything with a mind that lets go. Don't accept praise or gain or anything else. 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.

Our task is to learn to see clearly what is happening in each moment, rather than be lost in our reactions and judgments.

The way to change others' minds is with affection, and not anger.

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

The technique of self-observation is the technique of observing the reality about oneself at the experiential level.

The Four Noble Truths are not mere doctrinal propositions but a framework for understanding and transforming our lives.