When you find your place where you are, practice occurs, actualizing the fundamental point.

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

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

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

When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.

The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

The mind is like water. When it's turbulent, it's difficult to see. When it's calm, everything becomes clear.

The ocean does not reject any water; therefore it is great. The mountain does not select its stones; therefore it is great.

Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.

True freedom is a freedom from the tyranny of our own thoughts and afflictive emotions.

Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

True peace is found not in the absence of experience but in the clear seeing of all experience.

Compassion is the radicalism of our time.

The ultimate revolution is the spiritual revolution, where we learn to see reality as it truly is.

Start from where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

The development of insight is gradual, but the realization of truth is sudden.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

The Buddha's teaching is not a philosophical system but a practical guide to living.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

Life is like a cup of tea. It's all in how you make it.

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

Don't be afraid of the future. The future is good.

When things fall apart and we're on the verge of we know not what, the test of each of us is to stay on that brink and not concretize.

Do not mistake understanding for realization, and do not mistake realization for liberation.

The dharma is not outside of you. Looking for it elsewhere is like placing a Buddha on your head while searching for him everywhere else.

The more we understand the nature of our mind, the more we understand the nature of our world.

In the gap between thoughts, nonconceptual wisdom shines continuously.

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.

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

Forgiveness is giving up all hope for a better past.

The mind is like a well-forged sword - it adapts to all situations.

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

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 highest mantra is to be without deception. The highest medicine is to have few desires. The highest meditation is not to be attached.

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

The key to the Buddha's teaching is not grasping, not trying to hold onto things that are essentially impermanent and unstable.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

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

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few.

The nature of the mind is like the sky, and our thoughts, emotions, and experiences are like clouds passing through it.

Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone.

Life is available only in the present moment.

Your own treasure house contains everything you need; why search outside?

Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.

To see the truth, do not be for or against. The struggle between for and against is the mind's worst disease.

In my youth I studied, in my prime I practiced, now all my doubts are cleared.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

To live fully is to let go and die with each step.

Panic, anxiety, and stress are not obstacles to the practice. They are the path to wisdom and compassion.

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.

To see directly is to be free of hope and fear. Hope and fear are like a cloud before the sun.

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

The silence between the notes is as important as the notes themselves.

Craving and aversion are the roots of suffering. Observe them with equanimity.

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

We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things.