If you live for a very long while, you will have to watch your friends and loved ones die, your body age and lose its beauty and vigor, and your mental capacities fade.

In the study of consciousness you cannot explain anything verbally. You can only allude to, point in a general direction of.

Be concerned with the welfare of others without any sense of self-importance that one is better because one meditates or leads a certain type of life.

Happiness has to do with how quickly you vibrate. Meditation is a process of speeding up the vibration.

What we are seeking to do is not melt the map of America. We are seeking to melt the self, the solid form that we consider ourselves to be.

What is evil? There is no such thing. In Buddhism we don't recognize evil and therefore we don't give it any power over us.

To the great pharaohs it mattered a great deal to bury their treasures in the pyramids, which they thought they would bring to the other worlds. But obviously it doesn't matter to them now. They went, the goods stayed.