Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.

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

If your practice is good, you may become proud of it. What you do is good, but something more is added to it. Pride is extra. Right effort is to get rid of something extra.

It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.

Everything you do is right, nothing you do is wrong, yet you must still make ceaseless effort.

When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything.

Without ignoring the objective side of the truth, it has to be subjective as well, Buddha's whole teaching just for you, something you can taste. Not something to believe in but to discover, to experience.