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

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

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.

Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with them.

In the moment of love, awareness is very strong. Use that awareness, that strength of consciousness, to look into yourself.

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.

Hasten slowly and you will soon arrive.

As rain breaks through an ill-thatched house, passion will break through an unreflecting mind.

If you love someone, the greatest gift you can give them is your presence.

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

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

Every moment of confusion is also a moment of wisdom, if we can learn to recognize it.

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.

Meditation is not about escaping from difficulty but about meeting it with awareness.

When mindfulness and concentration are strong, insight into the three characteristics naturally unfolds.

The root of suffering is not in the world outside us but in our own minds.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

The practice of mindfulness transforms the mind from a place of suffering into an instrument of enlightenment.

The mind that sees its own nature becomes free from all extremes.

When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

The practice of meditation is not about achieving states of bliss but about seeing things as they really are.

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

All experiences are preceded by mind, having mind as their master, created by mind.

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

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

Try to be mindful and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool.

The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.

To be attached to a thing means that mind and the thing meet and grow into each other.

To see directly is to be free of hope and fear. Hope and fear are like a cloud before the sun.

If I had any position, I would thereby have a flaw. But since I have no position, I alone am without flaw.

Should you desire the great tranquility, prepare to sweat white beads.

The Buddha's teaching is not a philosophy or a religion; it is a method of practice.

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