People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.

Freedom from suffering is a great happiness.

Simple practices like conscious breathing and smiling are very important. They can change our civilization.

Around us, life bursts with miracles, a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops.

The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself.

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge. You have to be able to transcend your knowledge the way people climb a ladder. If you are on the fifth step of a ladder and think that you are very high, there is no hope for you to climb to the sixth.