Every experience is an opportunity to practice awareness.

Each moment of mindfulness is a moment of purification.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

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

The quality of every moment depends on the state of our minds.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The practice of mindfulness transforms the mind from a place of suffering into an instrument of enlightenment.

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.

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

The practice of mindfulness leads naturally to concentration. Concentration leads naturally to wisdom.

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

Awareness is the basis, or what you might call the "support," of the mind. It is steady and unchanging, like the pole to which the flag of ordinary consciousness is attached.

In the spring, hundreds of flowers; in autumn, a harvest moon; in the summer, a refreshing breeze; in winter, snow will accompany you. If useless things do not hang in your mind, any season is a good season for you.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay.

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

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

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

In the spiritual world there are no time divisions such as the past, present and future; for they have contracted themselves into a single moment of the present where life quivers in its true sense.

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.

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

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

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

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

Mindfulness is the gentle effort to be continuously present with experience.

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

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.

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

Impermanence, suffering, and non-self are not philosophical concepts but realities to be directly perceived through mindfulness practice.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.

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

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

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

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

When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.

The difference between being caught in thoughts and being mindful of thoughts is like the difference between being in a movie and watching a movie.

Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

Because you are alive, everything is possible.