There are many ways to meditate. But at the heart of them all is mindfulness.

Don't think that only sitting with the eyes closed is practice. If you do think this way, then quickly change your thinking.

Compassion is not just about being kind to others. It's about being kind to ourselves as well.

Our practice cannot be perfect, but without being discouraged by this, we should continue it. This is the secret of practice.

Each moment of mindfulness is a moment of purification.

Our defilements are like tame tigers. If you feed them, they're tame. If you stop feeding them, they'll eat you up.

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.

To see the truth, do not be for or against. The struggle between for and against is the mind's worst disease.

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.

Insight knowledge comes from direct experience, not from intellectual understanding.

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.

Generosity generates its own enthusiasm. We don't have to force ourselves to be generous; we just need to start.

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

To live – is that not enough? To love – is that not everything?

When we know the truth, we become people who don't have to think much, we become people with wisdom.

The dharma is not outside of you. Looking for it elsewhere is like placing a Buddha on your head while searching for him everywhere else.

The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive.

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

The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves.

The development of wisdom does not occur in isolation but requires the cultivation of the entire Noble Eightfold Path.

When you let go of trying to control everything, you can relax and enjoy life.

Love is the wish that others be happy, and compassion is the wish that they be free from suffering.

In the moment of pure noting, there is no self - only the knowing and the known.

The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.

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

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Not by hatred is hatred conquered, but by love alone. This is an eternal law.

The goal of meditation is not to reach some highest place, but to remain in the place where you already are.

Happiness is a skill that can be developed like playing an instrument or learning to read.

When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.

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

Only one book is worth reading: the heart.

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