Every experience is an opportunity to practice awareness.

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

When dharma fills your body and mind, you realize that something is missing.

When you let go of trying to control everything, you can relax and enjoy life.

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

The practice of meditation is like learning to play an instrument - it takes patience, regular practice, and a gentle touch.

Mindfulness is being aware of what is happening right now, without wishing it were different.

Generosity generates its own enthusiasm. We don't have to force ourselves to be generous; we just need to start.

Mindfulness is attention to life, and life itself is sacred.

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

The basic idea of Zen is to come in touch with the inner workings of our being, and to do this in the most direct way possible, without resorting to anything external or superadded.

Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.

The movement of love is what creates the beauty in our lives.

Wisdom and compassion must be developed equally and harmoniously.

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

The idea of Zen is to catch life as it flows. There is nothing extraordinary or mysterious about Zen. I raise my hand; I take a book from the other side of the desk; I hear the boys playing ball outside my window; I see the clouds blown away beyond the neighboring wood: all these I do in Zen.

Compassion is a verb.

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

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

Meditation is not about getting away from it all. It's about getting into it all.

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

The obstacle is the path.

It is never too late to turn on the light.

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

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

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks.

Whatever is happening is the path to enlightenment.

Equanimity is not indifference. It is the balanced mind that sees things clearly without reaction.

The Buddha's teachings are not about abandoning our lives but about bringing the fullness of our attention to our lives.

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

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

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

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

Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy. This is the goal of Buddhist practice.

The practice is simply this: keep coming back to your breath during the day. This will give your mind a steadiness and your life a balance.

The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves.

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

Sensations are not your enemy. They are your teacher. Through observing them, you understand the truth of existence.

Our defilements are like tame tigers. If you feed them, they're tame. If you stop feeding them, they'll eat you up.

Knowledge must be stabilized by meditation. Without meditation, knowledge is like a child in battle.

The true understanding is that the practice itself is enlightenment.

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

The problem is not the problem; the problem is your attitude about the problem.

The entire path is a path of self-responsibility. Nobody else can walk it for you.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.

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

Meditation is not about getting rid of thoughts; it's about changing the way we relate to them.

Compassion is not mere sentiment but a powerful force that can transform both ourselves and others.

Wisdom arises when you see the true characteristics of phenomena through direct experience.

Whoever told you that practice and enlightenment are separate?

The essence of Buddhist practice is to bring everything onto the path. Every experience becomes an opportunity for awakening.

The essence of Buddhism is not a belief system but a systematic investigation of our experience.

The silence between the notes is as important as the notes themselves.

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.

The object of meditation and the mind which knows it must be noted as they occur. If they are not noted, desire arises and disturbs concentration.

The path to liberation requires both individual effort and the support of the spiritual community.

The spiritual journey begins with the recognition that beneath our surface happiness there lies a deep inner pain.

The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.