There can be associations - enlightened businesses, for example - that do not work on the basis of us against them or wanting profit as the main motivating force behind what they do.

And so I came to understand why some masters sometimes say, "You are already enlightened."

You create a good future by creating a good present.

The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.

If you don't mind being unhappy, what happens to the unhappiness?

What could be heavier and more impenetrable than a rock, the densest of all forms? And yet some rocks undergo a change in their molecular structure, turn into crystals, and so become transparent to the light.

Vipassana is fine until it becomes a technique that has many stages and that takes time to develop. That can be okay for people for a while, but then you have to leave the technique behind.