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. If you let go completely, you will have complete peace.

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

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

When the heart is still, it can be kind. When the mind is still, it can see clearly.

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

Don't be a bodhisatta; don't be an arahant; don't be anything at all. Being something makes you suffer.

The mind is intrinsically empty. It's empty of all that we perceive as being intrinsically "me" and "mine."

If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer.

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.

The heart of the path is quite simple. No need for long explanations. Give up clinging to love and hate, just rest with things as they are.

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

If you want to understand suffering, you must look into the situation at hand. The teachings say that wherever a problem arises it must be settled right there.

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

If it isn't good, let it die. If it doesn't die, make it good.

Study the Buddha's teaching which is present in every moment.

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.

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

Whatever we do, we should see ourselves. Reading books doesn't show us our defilements. Watch yourself. Watch your mind.

Just know what is happening in your mind - not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer, see it, know it, be empty.