There is a way to reach enlightenment and get beyond suffering.

The experience of the next life is too far away to really be concerned with. It will be an outgrowth of this incarnation and what happens between birth and death.

The life of an unenlightened person is filled with suffering.

In the West the wise are usually thought of as leaders. In the East, the wise are very often though of as followers.

Everything is part of one web, one matrix of existence, beyond discussion. This is our true self in its undifferentiated form.

Very few people are happy in this world. Most are miserable. Even in their so-called happiness, they are unhappy; it is so short of ecstasy, of god-consciousness; it's almost pitiful.

Think about the flowers. Life is just a bunch of pretty pictures. All this is supposed to do is force you beyond the mind, when you realize that you can't figure it out.