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.

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

In the gap between thoughts, nonconceptual wisdom shines continuously.

Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don't serve them tea.

Meditation is not about escaping from difficulty but about meeting it with awareness.

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

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

The view is like a lion - it cannot be led around by anything else. Meditation is like an eagle - it cannot be distracted by anything else. Action is like a madman - it is free from accepting and rejecting.

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

Maintain the state of undistractedness and distractions will fly away.

The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.

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

Sleep is the best meditation.

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

Meditation is not an escape from reality but a way to understand reality as it truly is.

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.

Just observe whatever arises. Don't try to create anything, and don't reject anything.

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

Don't expect or desire anything. Just keep noting whatever arises in the present moment.

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

In true vipassana practice, there is no room for likes and dislikes. There is only observation.

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.

Meditation is not about trying to change your experience; it's about changing your relationship to your experience.

The noting mind and the object noted appear to occur as a pair. Through concentration they are seen to arise and vanish together.

The master's introduction is direct recognition of one's own nature. Meditation is maintaining the continuity of this recognition.

Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.

The more you meditate, the more you understand yourself and the better friend you become to yourself.

The purpose of meditation is to make our mind calm and peaceful. If our mind is peaceful, we will be free from worries and mental discomfort.

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

When thoughts arise, recognize them as the display of your own awareness, like recognizing your own children in a crowd.

There are many ways to meditate. But at the heart of them all is mindfulness.

The goal of meditation is not to reach some highest place, but to remain in the place where you already are.

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

Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity than thinking.

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

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

The moment you note a thought, it disappears. The noting mind keeps the hindrances away.

The great gift of meditation is that it returns us to the simplicity of our own being.

The supreme path is not to fabricate anything. The supreme meditation is not to be distracted.

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

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

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

The essence of meditation is not something complicated or exotic. It is simply taking a break from our habitual patterns.

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.

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

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

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

The practice of mindfulness is simple: whatever you experience, you observe and note it.

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

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

The zazen I speak of is not meditation practice. It is simply the dharma gate of joyful ease.

The most profound meditation is to think nothing at all.

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.

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

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

The purpose of meditation is not to create a mental vacuum but to come to know one's own mind.

The goal of meditation is not to achieve a blank mind, but to gain insight into the nature of mind itself.

The mind is like a wild monkey, jumping here and there. But through meditation, we learn to see whatever arises in our mind with more spaciousness and clarity.

Understanding at the intellectual level is not enough. There must be experience at the actual level.

The purpose of meditation is to gain right understanding of the true nature of mental and physical phenomena.