What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil.

You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.

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

Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.

The way to overcome anger is to be too busy being kind to have time to be angry.

A pure mind is always full of love - real love for all others.

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.

The more you suffer the deeper grows your character, and with the deepening of your character you read the more penetratingly into the secrets of life.

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

In the gap between thoughts, nonconceptual wisdom shines continuously.

Silence is sometimes the best answer.

Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.

Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.

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

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

Sleep is the best meditation.

There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live.

Wherever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear.

The path to liberation is a gradual path of self-discipline, self-development, and self-transformation.

Our task is not to seek for love but to find all the barriers within ourselves that we have built against it.

The Four Noble Truths are not merely theoretical propositions but a framework for understanding and transforming our experience.

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

There are many ways to meditate. But at the heart of them all is mindfulness.

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

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

Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.

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

In the spring, hundreds of flowers; in autumn, a harvest moon; in the summer, a refreshing breeze; in winter, snow will accompany you. If useless things do not hang in your mind, any season is a good season for you.

Mindfulness is the key to transformation. It enables us to see our experience as it really is, free from distortion and bias.

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

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