The path to enlightenment is not a path at all. It is a realization that where you are is where you have always been.

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

Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.

Emptiness is not nothingness. Emptiness is the space of possibility.

The practice is like peeling an onion. Layer after layer of delusion is removed through continuous mindfulness.

Zen proposes its solution by directly appealing to facts of personal experience and not to book-knowledge.

The present moment is the only moment available to us, and it is the door to all moments.

The biggest prison is the one we build in our own mind.

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

The practice of ethics is not about following rules but about developing inner purity and freedom.

The dharma is not about collecting more beliefs but about becoming free from the power of belief itself.

The Buddha's teachings are not a religion, but a science of mind.

The only thing that we truly have control over is our attitude toward experience.

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks.

When the mind is ready to understand, the truth will come to meet it.

In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.

Our true nature is like a diamond - pure, brilliant, and indestructible. No matter how much dirt covers it, its essential nature remains unchanged.

The path to liberation requires both individual effort and the support of the spiritual community.

We deal with our mind from morning until evening, and it can be our best friend or our worst enemy.

Panic is a gateway to wisdom. When we learn to stay present with our panic, it becomes our teacher.

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

The heart of one who practices is like the earth. No matter what they throw on it, the earth remains unchanged.

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

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind.

The goal of meditation is not to reach some highest place, but to remain in the place where you already are.

Wisdom is not something we have to strive to acquire. Rather, wisdom arises naturally as we open our hearts to the truth of what is.

The knowledge of dissolution comes when you see both the noting mind and noted object dissolving together.

People who study a lot but don't practice are like a ladle in a soup pot. It's in the soup every day, but it doesn't know the taste of the soup.

Even if you speak of 'understanding,' this understanding is not a matter of knowledge. It is what fills the entire body and mind.

If you want to find peace, then look at that point where you find you're dissatisfied and investigate what's really going on.

When I run from suffering, it follows me. When I face suffering with equanimity, it runs from me.

Every moment of confusion is also a moment of wisdom, if we can learn to recognize it.

The more we understand impermanence, the more we understand that we can't hold on to anything.

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

Don't take life too seriously. No one gets out alive anyway.

The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred.

Real peace comes from seeing things as they really are, not as we want them to be.

If you want to know your past life, look at your present condition. If you want to know your future life, look at your present actions.

Through continuous mindfulness practice, the true nature of physical and mental phenomena becomes clear.

The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.

Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity than thinking.

If you want to know the past, look at the present. If you want to know the future, look at the present.

As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home.

The secret of happiness is to want what you already have.

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

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

The way to change the world is to change your own mind.

The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

Generosity generates its own enthusiasm. We don't have to force ourselves to be generous; we just need to start.

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

To be attached to a thing means that mind and the thing meet and grow into each other.

When dharma fills your body and mind, you realize that something is missing.

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

Meditation is not an escape from reality but a way to understand reality as it truly is.

To live is enough.

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.

Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.

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

Recognize the emptiness of all phenomena, but do not become attached to emptiness itself.

The path to liberation is through understanding the true nature of mind and matter through direct observation.