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

The mystical kundalini goes the other direction. It starts at the base of the spine, at the root chakra and goes up.

Pilgrimages are journeys to places of power. People sometimes make pilgrimages to the caves where Milarepa or other great yogis meditated.

The problem with monasteries, ashrams, convents is these institutions become extremely political. In other words, they're really small societies, and much of what you hope to avoid in societies you find there.

Kundalini is generated through cultivating humility, purity, through meditation, selfless giving, and by studying with an advanced teacher on a personal level.

When you meditate you are accessing eternity. You are plugging yourself into that source which is all light and all beauty and all perfection.

You have to be a warrior in order to become enlightened. If you think it's tough paying the bills, think about being everywhere all at once and doing everything in all the universes, simultaneously, past, present, and future.