When you are fooled by something else, the damage will not be so big. But when you are fooled by yourself, it is fatal. No more medicine.

As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.

In the mind of the beginner, there are many possibilities. In the mind of the expert there are few.

The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves. That is why we have teaching. But the teaching is not ourselves. It is some explanation of ourselves. To study the teaching is to know yourselves. That is why we do not ever attach to the teaching, or to the teacher. The moment you meet a teacher you should leave the teacher, and you should be independent. You want a teacher so that you can be independent. So you study yourselves. You have the teacher for yourselves, not for the teacher.

The person who can freely acknowledge that life is full of difficulties can be free, because they are acknowledging the nature of life - that it can't be much else.

There are, strictly speaking, no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity.