“The heart of the path is quite easy.”

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

If we only make merit but have not stopped doing bad things, then we will never have a day of completion. It is like an overturned bowl which is left outside in the rain.

Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else, right there we are wrong. It becomes wrong view.

I touch it and it rings! One day the wind may blow it off the shelf, or my elbow may knock it from the table.

The heart is the only book worth reading.

The only way to experience it is to put the teachings into practice. Once you taste it, you are no longer in any doubt about its flavour and you do not have to ask anyone else. The problem is solved.

We see that the sound is simply sound. If we understand like this, then there’s nothing more to it. We leave it be.

If it shouldn’t happen, it wouldn’t happen.

We need to develop meditation so that the understanding arises clearly within oneself. It is not the case that merely by listening to another’s explanation our defilements will disappear.

In practice, some come to see easily, some with difficulty. But whatever the case, never mind.

Only one book is worth reading: the heart.

Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.

The mind is intrinsically tranquil. Out of this tranquility, anxiety and confusion are born. If one sees and knows this confusion, then the mind is tranquil once more.

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

Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them.

Well, if it really was her anger, then she should be able to tell it to go away, shouldnt she? But it really isn’t hers to command.

Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people.

Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.

Good works, because they must be forgotten instantly, can never become part of the world; they come and go,leaving no trace. They truly are not of this world.

Tools and instruments which can ease the effort of labor considerably are themselves not a product of labor but of work; they do not belong in the process of consumption but are part and parcel of the world of use objects.

I hate luxury. I exercise moderation, It will be easy to forget your vision and purpose one you have fine clothes, fast horses and beautiful women. [In which case], you will be no better than a slave, and you will surely lose everything.

It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.

It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.

Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.