People are unhappy because they don't understand life; by happy, I mean complete, aware, conscious, poignant, caring, loving, unaffected, cosmic, simplistic, humble, excited, passive - everything. You are everything.

The tantras can be very confusing for a person who is new to Buddhism, and for several thousand years the rule was not to expose a person or a new monk to the tantras until they had practiced for many, many years.

When you die you forget. Death is a sleep, a forgetting. You forget about your previous lifetime. The essence of your being is the same. But at death, the personality dissolves

We are going to alter the structure of our beings and also totally change what we are. This is the possibility and inevitability that meditation offers us.

In advanced meditation you become light. You transcend self, ego, time, space, and dimensionality.

I believe that it is the responsibility of everyone in corporate life to help with the funding of non-profit organizations.

Over the years of much self-hate, I came to realize that whether sexuality was in my life or not, it didn't seem to matter. I just surrendered the whole thing to God.