The path of insight is a path of discovery, not a path of creation. We are discovering what is already there.

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

All experiences are preceded by mind, led by mind, made by mind. Speak or act with a corrupted mind, and suffering follows as the wagon wheel follows the hoof of the ox.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

The only way to experience truth is to look within, to observe oneself.

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

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

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

The heart of one who practices is like the earth. No matter what they throw on it, the earth remains unchanged.

Our task is not to seek for love but to find all the barriers within ourselves that we have built against it.

The mind is like a well-forged sword - it adapts to all situations.

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

The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

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

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

When we are mindful, deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled with acceptance, joy, peace and love.

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

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

Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

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

Those who understand interdependent origination understand suffering, its origin, its cessation, and the path.

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 measure of success in spiritual life is how peaceful you are.

Zen teaches nothing; it merely enables us to wake up and become aware. It does not teach, it points.

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

Meditation is not about getting rid of thoughts; it's about changing the way we relate to them.

The knowledge of dissolution comes when you see both the noting mind and noted object dissolving together.

A pure mind is always full of love - real love for all others.

Mindfulness is the gentle effort to be continuously present with experience.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

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.

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