People use ideas of non-duality as an escape from reality. It is very easy to say there is no winning and losing and justify the fact that you didn't do a very good job.

Fasting is as sensual as eating. Being celibate is as sensual as having sex. They're just different choices, different videos that you've selected to view tonight.

The real problem is not increasing your energy. The problem is losing it. If you stop the loss and you simply meditate, you will have more than enough energy. You will learn to live strategically.

Power plants break up the way you see the world; they can push you into the second attention; yet to continuously take them, weakens the subtle psychical body.

The ideas that we have about self are an aggregate within a state of mind, and they chain us to a state of mind.

How do you overcome the negative karmas and problems and misery that occur to people who abuse power? You stop abusing power.

Several very good friends of mine have died of AIDS. I spent a great deal of time with them when they went through that process.