Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well.

Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don't serve them tea.

Metta is the ability to embrace all parts of ourselves, as well as all parts of the world.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

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

The goal of the Buddhist path is not to add something to our existence but to discover something that has been there all along.

The practice is simply this: keep coming back to your breath during the day. This will give your mind a steadiness and your life a balance.

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

If you forget yourself, you become the universe.

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

People who study a lot but don't practice are like a ladle in a soup pot. It's in the soup every day, but it doesn't know the taste of the soup.

Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.

The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.

The difference between being caught in thoughts and being mindful of thoughts is like the difference between being in a movie and watching a movie.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

What you are is what you have been. What you'll be is what you do now.

Our own life has to be our message.

Sleep is the best meditation.

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.

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

My father is the intrinsic awareness, Samantabhadra. My mother is the ultimate sphere of reality, Samantabhadri. I belong to the caste of non-duality of these two.

The practice of meditation is like tuning an instrument. Too tight, and the strings break. Too loose, and they won't play.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.

The teaching of the Buddha is based on two truths: conventional truth and ultimate truth. Without understanding the relationship between these two, the deeper meaning of the Buddha's teaching cannot be understood.

What is the sound of one hand clapping?

Observe the reality as it is, not as you wish it to be.

The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.

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

The path to liberation requires both individual effort and the support of the spiritual community.

The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.

To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfection.

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.