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

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

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.

When we gain some understanding we need to chew on it again so that we see it for ourselves with certainty: paccattam.

Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.

Steady practice is keeping mindful in every posture, whether sitting, walking, standing or lying down.

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.

At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school.

Learning is finding out what you already know.

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age.

To bring anything into your life, imagine that it’s already there.

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?

Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.