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

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.

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

The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.

The most important thing in life is to know death is coming and to prepare for it.

The six realms of existence are like a dream, why build a prison for yourself?

The experience of emptiness engenders compassion.

The mind that sees its own nature becomes free from all extremes.

Maintain the state of undistractedness and distractions will fly away.

In the beginning, nothing comes, in the middle nothing stays, in the end nothing goes.

The practice of Dharma is a constant battle within oneself.

Better to have one moment of genuine meditation than to perform religious activities for a thousand years.

When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick. Every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead, be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower.

The nature of mind is clearer than the sky, yet we keep looking elsewhere.

The dharma is not in the books. If you want to find the dharma, look in your mind.

To be attached to a thing means that mind and the thing meet and grow into each other.

The practitioner and practice are like fire and wood. The more you practice, the more you burn.

The nature of everything is illusory and ephemeral, those with dualistic perception regard suffering as happiness, like they who lick the honey from a razor's edge.

The most profound meditation is to think nothing at all.

The essence of mind is empty like space; yet it contains all things, like a mirror.