The obstacle is the path.

Just as the wise do not take a mirage to be water, nor an echo to be a voice, so the enlightened do not take the world to be real.

When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help.

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

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.

Zen is a way of life, not a theory or a piece of knowledge to be stored away in our minds.

The quality of every moment depends on the state of our minds.

Every thought, every word, and every action leaves an imprint on our mind.

Liberation is not found by running away from our experience but by looking deeply into it.

Work diligently. Diligently. Work patiently and persistently. Patiently and persistently. And you're bound to be successful. Bound to be successful.

Each moment of clear seeing is a moment of freedom from the illusion of permanence, satisfaction, and self.

Awareness is always with us. We don't need to create it or achieve it - we just need to recognize what's already there.

Kindness is the solution to all of life's problems.

When you generate negativity, you are the first victim of your negativity.

Every moment of mindfulness is a step on the path to liberation. Each step is valuable, no matter how small.

Right practice is steady practice. Whether you feel lazy or diligent, just keep practicing.

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

The purpose of meditation is to gain right understanding of the true nature of mental and physical phenomena.

At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.

The secret of happiness lies not in getting what we want, but in learning to want what we already have.

The path is not about moving from one place to another. It's about recognizing where we already are.

The victorious ones have said that emptiness is the relinquishing of all views. Those who are possessed of the view of emptiness are said to be incurable.

It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few.

Through violence, you may solve one problem, but you sow the seeds for another.

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

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay.

When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.

The path to enlightenment is not a path at all. It is a realization that where you are is where you have always been.

The everyday practice is simply to develop complete acceptance and openness to all situations and emotions.

The Buddha's teaching is a middle way between all extremes, between eternalism and annihilationism, between self-indulgence and self-torture.

Mindfulness is the quality and power of mind that is aware of what's happening—without judgment and without interference.