Once you have personally experienced enlightenment, you will see beyond the ocean of death to the everlasting shores of immortality.

The aura of billions of people coats all experiences like a thick cloud of smog. Just to live on the earth is to live in that smog.

You're not capable of stepping into nirvana at this time. If you did it would be disastrous. You're tonal would be swamped.

Discriminate between the transient and the eternal. Learn to move from complete control to complete abandon.

I had been pretty well made a prisoner by school, by society. I had been given this description of the world that I couldn't accept.

Meditate upon all the perfect light within your own mind! Do this repeatedly and the radiant Bodhisattvas of Wisdom and Laughter will visit you and change your karma forever!

I don't engage in brainwashing, I don't dictate forms of lifestyle, I don't perform mass marriages or even singular marriages. I don't tell people what to believe.