‘No matter how appealing an object, it’s appealing only in worldly sense. It isn’t happiness of liberation; it won’t free you from the world.’ Ajahn Chah

‘The complaining mind, the critical mind, the always wanting something you don’t have, or not being content with what you do have, is dukkha.’ Ajahn Sumedho

‘The notion of self drives all sorts of views and opinions about birth and death.’ Zen Graffiti

‘Anicca: Lit. not-eternal. One of the first insights of the Buddha "all that arises ceases", are not reality, not nirvana, not liberation.’ Everyday Buddhism

‘Kindness and the good heart are important at the beginning, in the middle and at the end.’ Dalai Lama

‘What place do dreams have within the dream?’ Zen Graffiti

‘To get an inkling of voidness liberation, we can deliberately empty the mind of all it contains.’ Ayya Khema

‘Empty awareness free from conceptual elaboration is a luminous glow beyond clarity or obscuration that pervades all samsara and nirvana.’ Sera Khandro

‘When we are happy we usually do not want to hear anything about detachment.’ Francesca Fremantle

‘Being and not being are in the realm of the intellect, not in the realm of truth.’ The Buddha