“Where does peace arise? Peace arises whenever we let something go.”

To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.

The ladle is in the soup pot every day, but it doesn’t know the taste of the soup. You must reflect and meditate.

These days people don’t search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living.

Isn’t it wonderful how the sky can take that dirty water and change it into pure, clean water? Your mind can do the same with your defilements if you let it.

People go through life blindly, ignoring death like revellers at a party feasting on fine foods. They ignore that later they will have to go to the toilet, so they do not bother to find out where there is one.

If you let go completely you will have complete peace.

No. It’s simply a thorn. It doesn’t give suffering to anybody. If we step on it, we suffer immediately.

Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace.

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

If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.

Whatever he taught, we should practise it. Only bowing to him is not enough. We need to renounce, give up, stop, so that we may see the Buddha.

One day some people came to the master and asked: How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where you cannot protect your loved ones from harm, illness or death?

Your only job is to stay in your seat. You will see it all arise and pass, and out of this, wisdom and understanding will come.

Therefore we have to train our mind. The meditation practice in Buddhism is all about training one’s own mind.

When nature finally calls, they have no idea where to go and are in a mess.

If you reflect in this way, you will have peace. Wherever you are, you will have this attitude of practice with you constantly.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.

Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them

In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.

Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?

Fear arises sooner than anything else.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

I am not concerned that you have fallen — I am concerned that you arise.