As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.

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.

The seed has no idea of being some particular plant, but it has its own form and is in perfect harmony with the ground, with its surroundings ... and there is no trouble. This is what we mean by naturalness.

Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

When you say, "Wait a moment," you are bound by your karma; when you say "Yes I will," you are free.

The true practice to meditation is to sit as if you where drinking water when you are thirsty.

The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves.