Be neither attracted nor repulsed is the message of Tantric Buddhism. Don't be drawn to something, don't run away from it. Just naturally accept whatever comes into life.

In the West when you talk about yin and yang, people normally think of yin and yang as something that's linear. But in the east we tend to think of yin and yang as circles. They're two circles that actually can lie on top of each other, yet they remain separate.

As you meditate, you'll develop a sense of humor so that you can laugh at yourself, which you need to do in this world.

The primary energy that is active in all things is kundalini. Kundalini energy is the energy of awareness. It can be used to modify awareness.

I try to teach people to continually search and question the meaning of everything they are taught and everything they believe in. My job is not so much to impart a philosophy but to train people in the methods of self-discovery.

There is a wonderful continuity of being, the continuous awareness of self, a sense of yourself continuing in time and space.

Krishna once said to Arjuna: Consider the past and future with an equal mind, and pass the peanut M&M's.