True happiness consists in eliminating the false idea of 'I'.

- Buddhadasa

What is the world full of? It is full of things that arise, persist, and cease. Grasp and cling to them, and they produce suffering. Don't grasp and …

- Buddhadasa

The entire cosmos is a cooperative. The sun, the moon, and the stars live together as a cooperative. The same is true for humans and animals, trees, …

- Buddhadasa

Those who read books cannot understand the teachings and, what's more, may even go astray. But those who try to observe the things going on in the mi…

- Buddhadasa

All beings may dance at ease in the breeze with minds left silent by laying to rest all things.

- Buddhadasa

To believe straight away is foolishness, to believe after having seen clearly is good sense. That is the Buddhist policy in belief; not to believe st…

- Buddhadasa

Do work of all kinds with a mind that is void and to the voidness surrender all of the fruits.

- Buddhadasa

The practice is to make the non-arising of grasping and clinging absolute, final, and eternally void, so that no grasping and clinging can ever retur…

- Buddhadasa

Happiness is when there is no hunger or want at all, when we're completely free of all hunger, desire, and want.

- Buddhadasa