Don't expect or desire anything. Just keep noting whatever arises in the present moment.

When you look deeply into your anger, you will see that the person you call your enemy is also suffering. As soon as you see that, the capacity for accepting and having compassion for them is there.

Each moment of noting is a moment of purification, a moment of cultivating the path.

Every sensation shares the same characteristic - arising, passing. Arising, passing. Learn to observe objectively.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

We deal with our mind from morning until evening, and it can be our best friend or our worst enemy.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

Your own treasure house contains everything you need; why search outside?

Every step on the path must be with the understanding of anicca - impermanence. This is the essence of the teaching.

Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what's happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what's happening.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

The more we understand the nature of our mind, the more we understand the nature of our world.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

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

Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

The purpose of Buddhist practice is not to become a Buddhist but to awaken to the nature of reality.

Enlightenment is not a state of perfection but of authenticity.

Time passes unhindered. When we make ourselves better, we make the world better.

The practice of Buddhism is fundamentally a practice of expanding our happiness and diminishing our suffering.

Craving and aversion are the roots of suffering. Observe them with equanimity.

Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

The path of practice moves from faith through understanding to direct realization.

Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is relax.

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

There is no need to have a deep understanding of Zen. Even though you read much Zen literature, you must read each sentence with a fresh mind.

The master's introduction is direct recognition of one's own nature. Meditation is maintaining the continuity of this recognition.

The path to liberation is a gradual path of self-discipline, self-development, and self-transformation.

We need the courage to learn from our experience and the wisdom to be willing to change and grow.

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

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth.

The only way to fail at meditation is to stop doing it.