If you haven't wept deeply, you haven't begun to meditate..

Once you understand non-self, then the burden of life is gone. You'll be at peace with the world. When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happ….

These days people don't search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living, raise families and look afte….

Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else, right there we are wrong. It becomes….

The Dhamma has to sink deeply into the mind so that whatever we do, the mind has always goodness within it. All the ways of making merit are aiming a….

The mind of one who practises doesn't run away anywhere, it stays right there. Good, evil, happiness and unhappiness, right and wrong arise, and he k….

Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher..

If we want to really see the Buddha, we should observe his virtuous qualities. Whatever he taught, we should practise it. Only bowing to him is not e….

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

I am like a tree in a forest. Birds come to the tree, they sit on its branches and eat its fruits. To the birds, the fruit may be sweet or sour or wh….

Dharma is in your mind, not in the forest. Don't believe others, just listen to your mind. You don't have to go anywhere else. Wisdom is in yourself,….

But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious..

Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another's word for it. We need to develop meditation so that the und….

To give up doing evil is more important than making merit..

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

Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If you lift up t….

When we conquer ourselves, then everything will be conquered: oneself, others, and all the sense objects as well, coming in by way of the eyes, ears,….

Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. What yo….

Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome lazin….

We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us..

All that I have said up to now has merely been words. When people come to see me, I have to say something. But it is best not to speak about these ….