The true path is not difficult; just avoid picking and choosing.

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

The practice is not about achieving special states but about seeing ordinary experience with extraordinary clarity.

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.

When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick. Every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead, be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower.

Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.

Loving-kindness is not something we need to manufacture. It's a natural expression of our awakened nature.

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

The entire path is a path of self-responsibility. Nobody else can walk it for you.

Equanimity is not indifference. It is the balanced state of mind.

The only things that are truly mine are my actions and their results.

The object of meditation and the mind which knows it must be noted as they occur. If they are not noted, desire arises and disturbs concentration.

The nature of mind is clearer than the sky, yet we keep looking elsewhere.

When you recognize that pain and suffering are impermanent, you become free.

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

Meditation is like catching a fish. If you try to catch it quickly, you'll miss it. If you have patience and know how to wait, the fish will come.

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

Concentration develops naturally through continuous noting. Don't try to force concentration to arise.

Enlightenment is not a state of perfection but of authenticity.

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

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

Radiate boundless love towards the entire world — above, below, and across — unhindered, without ill will, without enmity.

The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes.

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

Whatever precious jewel there is in the heavenly worlds, there is nothing comparable to one who is awakened.

Mindfulness is being aware of what is happening right now, without wishing it were different.

Life is nothing but a continuous chain of sensations. Pleasant or unpleasant, observe them objectively.

Every moment is a fresh beginning. Every breath is a new chance.

The more you meditate, the more you understand yourself and the better friend you become to yourself.

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

The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your actions will be.

The goal of meditation is not to achieve a blank mind, but to gain insight into the nature of mind itself.

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