If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace. If you let go completely, you will have complete peace.

The essence of Buddhism is not a belief system but a systematic investigation of our experience.

To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma.

Short moments, many times. That is the essence of meditation practice.

The teaching is simple: act with kindness and compassion. If you cannot do this, at least try not to harm others.

The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.

Where is the place that your original face has not yet emerged?

Face your own anger and you will be free from anger. Face your own fears and you will be free from fear.

Anxiety and excitement are the same emotion. The only difference is our attitude toward the experience.

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

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

If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

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

The Buddha's teaching challenges us to master the art of living, to live in a way that leads to the extinction of suffering.

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

Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it.

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

Sleep is the best meditation.

My father is the intrinsic awareness, Samantabhadra. My mother is the ultimate sphere of reality, Samantabhadri. I belong to the caste of non-duality of these two.

The development of wisdom requires both study and practice, both learning and direct experience.

All beings by nature are Buddha, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddha.

If you want to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be miserable, expect something in return.

Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.

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.

Real happiness lies within. It cannot be found in external objects or achievements.

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

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

The nature of mind is like a mirror. It is not affected by whatever appears in it, yet it never fails to reflect everything perfectly.

The practitioner and practice are like fire and wood. The more you practice, the more you burn.

Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we're holding back.

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

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.