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

In meditation, we are continuously discovering who and what we are.

Concentration develops naturally through continuous noting. Don't try to force concentration to arise.

Maintain the state of undistractedness and distractions will fly away.

When dharma fills your body and mind, you realize that something is missing.

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

To live fully is to let go and die with each step.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure.

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

Do everything with a mind that lets go. Don't accept praise or gain or anything else. If you let go a little, you will have a little peace; if you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace.

The mind is the source of all happiness and the source of all suffering.

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

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

Even if you speak of 'understanding,' this understanding is not a matter of knowledge. It is what fills the entire body and mind.

Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is relax.

Misery ceases to exist when we stop reacting to sensations.

We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things.

Trees, mountains, and vines all exist in nature according to their own truth. They are born and die following their nature. They remain this way because that's what they are. They don't practice meditation or do anything special.

The perfect moment is this one, not the one you're waiting for.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

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.

If you want to know your past life, look into your present condition; if you want to know your future life, look into your present actions.

Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment.

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

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

The view is like a lion - it cannot be led around by anything else. Meditation is like an eagle - it cannot be distracted by anything else. Action is like a madman - it is free from accepting and rejecting.

The practice of mindfulness begins in the small, remote cave of your unconscious mind and blossoms with the sunlight of your conscious life.

Just to be alive is enough.

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

Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.