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

Try to be mindful and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool.

Our basic nature is pure awareness that simply cognizes experience. Everything else is temporary and adventitious.

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.

Whatever we do, we should see ourselves. Reading books doesn't show us our defilements. Watch yourself. Watch your mind.

When mindfulness becomes continuous, the distinction between the observer and the observed begins to break down.

Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment.

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

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.

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

Just know what is happening in your mind - not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer, see it, know it, be empty.

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth.

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.

Awareness is always with us. We don't need to create it or achieve it - we just need to recognize what's already there.

The awareness that you are here, right now, is the ultimate fact.

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

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

Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well.

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

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

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 five aggregates are not a theoretical model but a description of lived experience to be investigated through mindfulness.

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.

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment.

When we are mindful, deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled with acceptance, joy, peace and love.

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

Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.

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

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

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

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

The practice of mindfulness is the practice of being alive in the present moment.

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.

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

Every sensation shares the same characteristic - arising, passing. Arising, passing. Learn to observe objectively.

Past thoughts are traceless, clear, and empty. Future thoughts are unborn and fresh. The present moment abides naturally and unconstructed.

Mindfulness is not just bare attention but wise attention that leads to understanding and insight.

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.

When you note pain, you are not trying to make it go away. You are trying to understand its true nature.

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

The past is for learning from, not for living in.

When you note effectively, there is no time for defilements to arise. The mind becomes pure through noting.

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

Be happy at the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

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

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

Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.

Each moment of mindfulness is a moment of purification.

Mindfulness means keeping one's consciousness alive to the present reality.

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

Mindfulness is the quality and power of mind that is aware of what's happening—without judgment and without interference.

The real purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes.

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

The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.

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

Every experience is an opportunity to practice awareness.