Sex does drain a certain amount of your occult energy. But that really has nothing to do with enlightenment.

Buddhism has existed forever, just like we have, and occasionally it's codified; it's put together into a system by someone who likes to codify.

Everything we see is an illusion. Even our perceptions of truth are illusory, illusory in the sense they're not complete.

You could use a flower, a candle flame, anything you want that's suggestive of beauty and eternality.

You don't choose because if you choose you might make the wrong choice, based upon ego or illusion. Instead, you let eternity make all the choices for you.

The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work.

When you laugh at the world, the world dissolves.