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

Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: you won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The water in the ocean can be rough or calm. It can be clear or murky. But the water itself doesn't mind.

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

If you want to find peace, then look at that point where you find you're dissatisfied and investigate what's really going on.

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

Only one book is worth reading: the heart.

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.

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.

Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher.

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

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.