If your intent is that athletics and sports are tools or devices to reach higher levels of mind, then your workout sessions become meditation.

To go to the very center of the mind of God, to be that, to become aware of our infiniteness, is the goal of Buddhism and along the way, to be as kind to others as possible without thinking that we are particularly wonderful.

The only loser who walks away from a wise man is the one who walks away.

Intent is all-important. Your intent determines what happens to you inwardly, in a karmic sense.

One should never become devoted to a teacher, any more than one should become devoted to a statue of a god. There is only one thing to be devoted to, and that is your mind.

I seemed to be leading a very incongruous life from the point of view of the definition of the community I was in.

The problem is with any practice is that it is a practice. That is why people don't win. The reason why people don't win is they get stuck in ideas, habits, and ways of seeing life.