Moment after moment, completely devote yourself to listening to your inner voice.

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

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

Happiness is a skill that can be developed like playing an instrument or learning to read.

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

In my youth I studied, in my prime I practiced, now all my doubts are cleared.

When we rest in awareness, we discover a peace that is always present, regardless of circumstances.

The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your actions will be.

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

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

When we recognize that our thoughts are just thoughts, we can choose whether or not to follow them.

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

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

True happiness is not found through the multiplication of desires but through their simplification.

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

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

The Dhamma is not a collection of doctrinal formulas but a path leading to direct insight into the nature of reality.

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

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

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

Study the Buddha's teaching which is present in every moment.

The restraint of the senses is not a matter of suppression but of wise attention to our experience.

The essence of bravery is being without self-deception.

The first step toward faith is to admit that we don't know everything.

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

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

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

The only way to fail at meditation is to stop doing it.

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

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

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

The practice of meditation is like tuning an instrument. Too tight, and the strings break. Too loose, and they won't play.

Every moment is a fresh beginning. Every breath is a new chance.

The only thing that we truly have control over is our attitude toward experience.

The root of all mind is your own present pure awareness. Rest in that essence without seeking elsewhere.

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

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

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

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

The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.

Instead of having a deep understanding of the teaching, we need a strong confidence in our teaching, which says that originally we have Buddha nature.

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

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

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

Equanimity is not indifference. It is the balanced state of mind.

Mindfulness is being aware of what's going on, not trying to control what's going on.

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

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

Do not mistake understanding for realization, and do not mistake realization for liberation.

When you practice zazen you should not try to attain anything. You should just sit in the complete calmness of your mind and not rely on anything.

Short moments, many times. That is the essence of meditation practice.

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

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

The superior person is like water, bringing benefit to all without competing.

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

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.

You are the master of your own mind. You can be your best friend or your worst enemy.

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

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

In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.