I myself feel, and also tell other Buddhists that the question of Nirvana will come later.
There is not much hurry; if in day to day life you lead a good life, with honesty, with love, with compassion, with less selfishness, then automatically it will lead to Nirvana.
I dedicate the merit of the occasion to all beings. This gesture of universal friendship has been likened to a drop of fresh spring water. If we put it on a rock in the sunshine, it will soon evaporate. If we put it in the ocean, however, it will never be lost. Thus the wish is made that we not keep the teachings to ourselves but to use them to benefit others.
Whatever we do, we should see ourselves. Reading books doesn't ever give rise to anything. The days pass by, but we don't see ourselves. Knowing about practice is practising in order to know.
Even for non-believers the best thing and only way to create merit (good
karma) is compassion, as well as making offerings and prostrations to
holy objects and circumambulating them, even by chance. What gives all
beings a happy, satisfied, meaningful and successful life is compassion.
Generosity should always be exercised impartially toward all – the poor, the sick, the aged, and the traveller from afar – without discrimination between friend and stranger.
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
Not to identify oneself with something, or to associate things with the "me," and to see that the idea that there is a "me" which is distinct from things is a delusion - that is true wisdom.
世间的一切事象∶人物虫鱼，山河大地，草木丛林，什麽都各有他的特殊体性、形态、作用。这一切的一切，都是从缘所生的法相，一切依因缘和合而幻现。
There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.
Complaining is finding faults. Wisdom is finding solutions.
一个心里充满慈悲和道德的人，即使他身上只有一件粗布外衣，也不会减轻别人对他
的尊敬；因为内在的美，如山谷的幽兰，洋溢著阵阵芳香，使人心情怡悦。
You will fall sick, experience pain, and encounter many adverse circumstances. At such times do not think, 'Although I am practicing the Dharma, I have nothing but trouble. The Dharma cannot be so great. I have followed a teacher and done so much practice, and yet hard times still befall me.'
Do not dwell in the past,
All the faults of our mind – our selfishness, ignorance, anger,
attachment, guilt, and other disturbing thoughts – are temporary, not
permanent and everlasting. And since the cause of our suffering – our
disturbing thoughts and obscurations – is temporary, our suffering is
also temporary.
The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries.
The biggest thing in the world is mind.
If you desire joy,
Read yourself, not books. Truth isn't outside, that's only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle - if you don't fill it, it's useless.
念佛，一般人但知口念，而不晓得除此以外，还有更具深义的念佛。如仅是口称佛名，心不系念，实是不能称为念佛的。真正的念，要心心系念佛境，分明不忘。
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
The towns and countryside that the traveller sees through a train window do not slow down the train, nor does the train affect them. Neither disturbs the other. This is how you should see the thoughts that pass through your mind when you meditate.
十善业包括：
平常日用，皆在道中行，那里不是道场，本用不着禅堂，也不是坐才是禅的。所谓禅堂，所谓坐禅，不过为我等末世障深慧浅的众生而设。
Do I prefer to grow up and relate to life directly, or do I choose to live and die in fear?
The fundamental philosophical principle of Buddhism is that all our suffering comes about as a result of an undisciplined mind, and this untamed mind itself comes about because of ignorance and negative emotions.
It’s only heavy when you hold it. But if you let it go, it’s got no weight at all.
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 laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.
The expectations you bring to meditation practice are often the greatest obstacles you will encounter.
讲修行，讲不修行，都是一句空话。你我透彻 自己这一段心光，当下了无其事，还说什么修与不修。试看本师释迦牟尼佛的表现，出家访道，苦行六年证道，夜睹明星，叹曰：“奇哉!奇哉!大地众生皆有如来智慧德相，只因妄想执着，不能证得；若离妄想，则清净智，自然智，无师智，自然现前。”
Keep in mind the many beings who are suffering in the same way as you are, and pray that your suffering may absorb theirs, and that they may be liberated from all suffering. In this way, illness can teach us compassion.
I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
Just know yourself, this is your witness. Don't make decisions on the strength of your desires. Desires can puff us up into thinking we are something which we're not. We must be very circumspect.
