“Learn to let go without struggle, simply let go, to be just as you are – no holding on, no attachment, free.”

The sound is just sound, why should you go and grab it? You see that actually it was you who went out and disturbed the sound.

Why do we suffer? Because we stepped on it. So the suffering comes from us.

It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher. Where you experience suffering, you can also find freedom from suffering.

Practicing meditation is just like breathing. While working we breathe, while sleeping we breathe, while sitting down we breathe…

Of course there are dozens of meditation techniques, but it all comes down to this – just let it all be. Step over here where it is cool, out of the battle. Why not give it a try?

Even if the water is falling right on it, it only touches the outside and not the inside. In this way the bowl will never get full.

Sati is life. Whenever we don’t have sati, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead.

If you are still following your likes and dislikes, you have not even begun to practise Dhamma.

Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.

Then we don’t have to celebrate it or let anybody know about it, simply let the mind have firm confidence in the goodness and keep going like this.

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.

Just know what is happening in your mind – not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer see it, know it, and be empty. It’s like a letter – you have to open it before you can know what’s in it.

Difficult or easy, the Buddha said not to be heedless. Just that–don’t be heedless. Why? Because life is not certain.

There’s no need to explain anything at length. Let go of love and hate and let things be. That’s all that I do in my own practice.

There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That’s how far away they live from themselves

We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.

I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.

So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.

Loyalty in a free society depends upon the toleration of disloyalty.

It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero in the country of his victims.

I’m free to do what I please, I’m probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.

Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.

On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!

I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.