“Know and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it.”

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.

When coming out of sitting, don’t think that you’re coming out of meditation, but that you are only changing postures.

You should think about your own death 3 times per day at the very least.

The ultimate truth is like the flavour of an apple which you can’t see with the eye or hear with the ear.

My mind is constantly in five different places, but golf is great because it forces you to focus completely and purely on what you’re doing.

The heart does not derive pure pleasure from what is impermanent.

See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.

You are the noblest, purest creature I’ve ever met. The universe will be a darker place without you, he whispered.

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

A heart given to God loses none of its natural tenderness; on the contrary, the more pure and divine it becomes, the more such tenderness increases.

I’m going to work so that it’s a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.

Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.