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

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

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The past is gone, the future is not yet here. Live in the present moment with awareness.

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

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.

Every moment of mindfulness is a step on the path to liberation. Each step is valuable, no matter how small.

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

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.

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

Life is available only in the present moment.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Smile, breathe, and go slowly.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?

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.

The only way to experience truth is to look within, to observe oneself.

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

When mindfulness and concentration are strong, insight into the three characteristics naturally unfolds.

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

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

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