I recommend for everyone the study of some type of sports or athletics, particularly martial arts. Always check with your doctor first, naturally.

When we go to the desert, it's pure nagual. There you witness stupendous and incredible acts of power that your reason cannot possibly deal with.

A mantra is a very powerful word. It vibrates like music does, only not on this plane but on other planes of reality. It creates a powerful force. It starts the kundalini moving.

Buddhism doesn't come from anybody. It exists by itself.

Reading books about enlightenment does not make you enlightened at all. You have to meditate yourself.

Behind the transient reality, there is something else. It is a deeper, more permanent and unchanging reality that we Buddhists call nirvana.

You are down in the valley and the valley is filled with smog. You can't see too well. When we meditate, we are going beyond the smog to the top of the mountain.