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

The Buddha taught us to leave alone the things that don't lead to awakening.

The nature of everything is empty and clear, and the mind is beyond both existence and nonexistence.

Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.

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

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

Suffering is not the end of the story; it is the middle of the story.

To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things.

Only one book is worth reading: the heart.

The restraint of the senses is not a matter of suppression but of wise attention to our experience.

We should find perfect existence through imperfect existence.

True peace comes not from controlling the world, but from letting go of control.

Karma is not fate but the law of moral causation, showing us that we are the architects of our own destiny.

The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own sense of well-being becomes.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

Appearances are mind, mind itself is emptiness, emptiness itself is spontaneous presence.

The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.

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

What we learn about the world is colored by the way we approach it.

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

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

The nature of everything is illusory and ephemeral, those with dualistic perception regard suffering as happiness, like they who lick the honey from a razor's edge.

The essence of all phenomena is empty and clear like space. The nature of mind is awareness-emptiness like the sun and sky.

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

The truth of suffering is not to be feared but to be understood through direct observation.

Like a dream, like an illusion, like a city of gandharvas, that's how birth, and that's how living, that's how dying are taught to be.

Right View is not just a matter of intellectual understanding but of seeing things as they really are.

The yogi's joy is in the solitude of mountains, where all distractions naturally dissolve into emptiness.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.

Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.

Expectations are the thieves of joy.

Every thought, every word, and every action leaves an imprint on our mind.