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

Insight knowledge comes from direct experience, not from intellectual understanding.

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

Just as a mother would protect her only child with her life, even so let one cultivate a boundless love towards all beings.

Compassion is a verb.

If you want to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be miserable, expect something in return.

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

The true understanding is that the practice itself is enlightenment.

The perfect moment is this one, not the one you're waiting for.

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

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

The Buddha taught us to leave alone the things that don't lead to awakening.

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

The heart of the path is quite simple. No need for long explanations. Give up clinging to love and hate, just rest with things as they are.

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.

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

Panic, anxiety, and stress are not obstacles to the practice. They are the path to wisdom and compassion.

We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking.

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

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.

Radiate boundless love towards the entire world — above, below, and across — unhindered, without ill will, without enmity.

The more precisely you note, the more clearly you understand. The more clearly you understand, the stronger your insight becomes.

True happiness comes from a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through cultivation of altruism, of love, of compassion.

The essence of Buddhist practice is to reduce our selfishness and to work for the benefit of others.

The yogi's joy is in the solitude of mountains, where all distractions naturally dissolve into emptiness.

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

The Buddha's teaching is not a philosophical system but a practical guide to living.

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

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

The path is not about moving from one place to another. It's about recognizing where we already are.

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

If you want to understand suffering, you must look into the situation at hand. The teachings say that wherever a problem arises it must be settled right there.

There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.

Not by hatred is hatred conquered, but by love alone. This is an eternal law.

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

We need to learn to let our emotions pass through us like waves, without getting caught in their undertow.

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

The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but through understanding and through letting go.

The cultivation of loving-kindness has the power to transform enmity into amity, hostility into hospitality.

Hasten slowly and you will soon arrive.

The true mark of a spiritual practitioner is that your own behavior is better, not that you can criticize others well.

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

Compassion is not a sign of weakness but a sign of strength.

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.

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

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

Our task is not to seek for love but to find all the barriers within ourselves that we have built against it.

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.

The practice of metta begins with oneself, for only when we have developed loving-kindness towards ourselves can we truly offer it to others.

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

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

The cultivation of loving-kindness is the thread that runs through all Buddhist teachings.

Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile.

Don't be a bodhisatta; don't be an arahant; don't be anything at all. Being something makes you suffer.

Whatever is happening is the path to enlightenment.

The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive.

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

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