The practice is not about achieving special states but about seeing ordinary experience with extraordinary clarity.

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.

What you are is what you have been. What you'll be is what you do now.

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.

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

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

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

If you love someone, the greatest gift you can give them is your presence.

We can learn to be present with whatever is happening in our lives, and in this way, we can begin to transform our relationship to difficulty.

When walking, just walk. When sitting, just sit. Above all, don't wobble.

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.

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.

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

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

One moment can change a day, one day can change a life, and one life can change the world.

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

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.

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.

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

In the moment of pure noting, there is no self - only the knowing and the known.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what's happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what's happening.

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

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

The true 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 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.

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

Each moment of clear seeing is a moment of freedom from the illusion of permanence, satisfaction, and self.

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.

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

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

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

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

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

When you see forms or hear sounds fully engaging body-and-mind, you intuit dharma intimately.

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

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.

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.

Mindfulness is the key to transformation. It enables us to see our experience as it really is, free from distortion and bias.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Our task is to learn to see clearly what is happening in each moment, rather than be lost in our reactions and judgments.

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

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

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

The past is just a memory. The future is just a dream. Be here now.

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

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

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

Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts.

Every time we become aware of a thought, as opposed to being lost in a thought, we experience that opening of the mind.