Sitting around idly contemplating doesn't produce much. In work you can discipline your attention, forget about your misery.

You have all died many times before and none of you look the worse for it.

Eventually light prevails, you just have to be patient. So practice Buddhism, learn to be enlightened, put a smile on your face, go find a great teacher, meditate, and stay funny.

Anybody or anything can become enlightened because enlightenment is the very nature of existence itself.

The Buddha taught three cycles of teachings. His first cycle of teachings cover the basics, the prerequisites. This would include the Dharmapada.

In the world of Buddhist mind, in the advanced states, we go beyond time, space, life, death and Newsweek.

Humankind has no idea what existence is, at this stage. They're all dreaming, they're all asleep... Once in a great while a fully awakened one is here, observes everybody is sleeping and leaves, quietly.