In Tantric Buddhism our feeling is that there is no problem with the sensual world unless you have a tremendous attraction or aversion to it.

Trivial Pursuit means that you've got nothing going on in your life. Trivial Pursuit is more than a board game. It is the way most people live. Their lives are trivial pursuits.

The good news is that you don't have to stop thoughts completely to meditate. It takes a long time to stop thought impeccably. What you need is to detach yourself from thought.

If there wasn't a way around the samskaras, no one would ever become enlightened.

Now that you've reached everything, you must slay this illusion without slaying it - without becoming caught up in the illusion of slaying illusions.

Real happiness is something most people never know. What we experience in deep meditation, that ecstasy is beyond what human beings call happiness

If you are afraid of other people take a martial arts class. The best way to overcome fear is learn to be proficient in martial arts.