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

Personal experience is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.

The highest truth cannot be taught except through the conventional truth.

Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.

Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.

The purpose of Buddhist practice is not to become a Buddhist but to awaken to the nature of reality.

In the spiritual world there are no time divisions such as the past, present and future; for they have contracted themselves into a single moment of the present where life quivers in its true sense.

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.

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

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

If you want to know the past, look at the present. If you want to know the future, look at the present.

When we know the truth, we become people who don't have to think much, we become people with wisdom.

Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what's happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what's happening.

A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

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

The mind is the forerunner of all things. Our present life is the result of our past thoughts, and our future life will be the result of our present thoughts.

The path to liberation requires both understanding and practice, both pariyatti and patipatti.

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

When you walk in the mist, you get wet.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

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

Your mind is like a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds. You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds.

The basic idea of Zen is to come in touch with the inner workings of our being, and to do this in the most direct way possible, without resorting to anything external or superadded.

Ethical conduct is not a constraint upon our freedom but a condition of our freedom.

The greatest obstacle to meditation is our expectation about what it should be.

Those who cling to perceptions and views wander the world offending people.

When we understand that peace is not dependent on external conditions, we can find it in the midst of any circumstance.

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.

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

Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.

The path is not about perfecting ourselves, but about perfecting our love.