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

Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.

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

There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.

Time passes unhindered. When we make ourselves better, we make the world better.

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

Those who understand interdependent origination understand suffering, its origin, its cessation, and the path.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Though the view should be as vast as the sky, keep your conduct as fine as barley flour.

External seeking only leads to exhaustion. When you imitate others, you lose your own authenticity.

The path of awakening is not about becoming who we think we should be, but about unbecoming who we are not.

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.

Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.

The development of wisdom does not occur in isolation but requires the cultivation of the entire Noble Eightfold Path.

If I had any position, I would thereby have a flaw. But since I have no position, I alone am without flaw.

When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.

Change is possible because there is nothing inherently permanent about our disturbing emotions.

The purpose of meditation is not to create a new state of mind, but to recognize what is already present.

When one sees with wisdom that all phenomena are empty of inherent existence, one is liberated from suffering.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

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

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

The more you understand impermanence, the more you appreciate every moment.

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

Happiness is not the pursuit of an endless succession of experiences but an attitude toward life.

The true person is not anyone in particular. But like the deep blue color of the limitless sky, it is everyone, everywhere in the world.

The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but through understanding and through letting go.

The obstacle is the path.

Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

The true mark of a spiritual practitioner is that your own behavior is better, not that you can criticize others well.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

The highest truth cannot be taught except through the conventional truth.

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

Every step on the path must be with the understanding of anicca - impermanence. This is the essence of the teaching.

The root of all suffering is ignorance. The antidote to ignorance is wisdom that realizes emptiness.

My religion is to live and die without regret.

The person who clings to nothing of the past, present and future, who has no attachment and no aversion, has no conceptual imprints.

The goal of Buddhist practice is not to escape from the world but to transform our relationship with it.

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

When you walk in the mist, you get wet.

In the beginning, nothing comes, in the middle nothing stays, in the end nothing goes.

For whom emptiness is possible, everything is possible. For whom emptiness is not possible, nothing is possible.

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

Compassion is not something we develop. It arises naturally as we see the truth of what is.

The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.

Our defilements are like tame tigers. If you feed them, they're tame. If you stop feeding them, they'll eat you up.

Neither from itself nor from another, nor from both, nor without a cause, does anything whatever, anywhere arise.

Our emotions are like waves in the ocean. We can't stop the waves, but we can learn to surf.

The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.

Enlightenment is not a state of perfection but of authenticity.

We need the courage to learn from our experience and the wisdom to be willing to change and grow.

The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.

The snow lion stays in the mountains, and the snow lion's ways are the snow lion's ways.

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

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

The difference between buddhas and sentient beings is that buddhas recognize their nature while sentient beings fail to recognize it.

True freedom is not the absence of commitment but the presence of choice.

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

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

The most important factor in achieving happiness is the mind. Happiness and suffering are mental states and therefore depend on the mind.