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

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

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

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

Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness.

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

When we see the nature of the mind, we see that we are not our thoughts.

Through understanding emptiness, one does not become proud of one's virtues, just as one does not become proud of building a castle in the sky.

The basic teaching of Buddhism is the teaching of transiency, or change.

When thoughts arise, recognize them as the display of your own awareness, like recognizing your own children in a crowd.

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

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

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

The source of love is deep in us and we can help others realize a lot of happiness. One word, one action, one thought can reduce another person's suffering and bring that person joy.

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

The mind itself is the maker of all happiness and misery; yet beings do not understand this and blame external conditions.

To live is enough.

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

Sankharas are the seeds of consciousness that manifest as sensations. By observing sensations equanimously, we stop creating new sankharas.

The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not.

The experience of emptiness engenders compassion.

Everybody has the light of Buddha within, but they don't look for it.

When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.

The practice of Zen mind is beginner's mind. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

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.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

The essence of mind is empty like space; yet it contains all things, like a mirror.

The nature of mind is the unity of awareness and emptiness.

World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.

Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.

The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all the possibilities.

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?