The practice of mindfulness is simple: whatever you experience, you observe and note it.

The Buddha never taught a sectarian religion; he taught Dhamma - the way to liberation - which is universal.

The defilements of the mind are temporary visitors. Pure awareness is your true home.

If you want to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be miserable, expect something in return.

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

Compassion is not a sign of weakness but a sign of strength.

You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can't solve your own doubts. Investigate yourself to find the truth - inside, not outside.

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

The menu is not the meal.

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.

The Buddha taught us to leave alone the things that don't lead to awakening.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

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

Real happiness lies within. It cannot be found in external objects or achievements.

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

The nature of the mind is like the sky, and our thoughts, emotions, and experiences are like clouds passing through it.

The Buddha's teaching is a teaching of self-reliance, of being one's own master, one's own refuge.

As a flower that is lovely and beautiful, but is scentless, even so fruitless is the well-spoken word of one who does not practice it.

One moment can change a day, one day can change a life, and one life can change the world.

We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's hearts.

Every step on the path must be with the understanding of anicca - impermanence. This is the essence of the teaching.

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

Hasten slowly and you will soon arrive.

The nature of mind is like a mirror. It is not affected by whatever appears in it, yet it never fails to reflect everything perfectly.

The teaching is simple: act with kindness and compassion. If you cannot do this, at least try not to harm others.

When we understand others, we understand ourselves. When we love others, we love ourselves.

Zen proposes its solution by directly appealing to facts of personal experience and not to book-knowledge.

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

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.

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

The root of all suffering is ignorance. The antidote to ignorance is wisdom that realizes emptiness.

Every sensation shares the same characteristic - arising, passing. Arising, passing. Learn to observe objectively.