Right practice is steady practice. Whether you feel lazy or diligent, just keep practicing.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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