If you know that you have had countless lives, then what happens in this life is not quite as traumatic.

Chi is developed through meditation, through studying with one who has a great deal of it.

Advance yourself by advancing others. Do not judge others. Be of service to them, but realize that you are not necessarily the instrument of perfecting and immortalizing others.

What is gone before is gone. All you have now are the results of your actions.

We're connected to the Buddhist order, to the mind of enlightenment. All day long we draw the power and force from that world, from all the teachers and all the adherents of the practices and the principles.

Physical perfection, working out, adds to your spiritual perfection if that is your intent.

In Buddhism we don't really believe in sin and salvation as Westerners would define them. We believe in the limitless possibilities of the present and of future moments.