Over a period of years he collected thousands of discples. Many became his students. Many didn't become his students but whenever he was in town they would go and see him.

The sign of an advanced spiritual person is that they don't think they're an advanced spiritual person until after liberation.

Lao Tsu says the way of life is water, to be fluid.

We can say the stars are moving because we have a relative context.

They wanted to preserve and protect the mystical knowledge gained from their meditation practices and pass it on to future civilizations they clairvoyantly saw were going to be born after the destruction of Atlantis

When you do things in a selfish way, let alone a destructive way, then you are bound by that karma. Your state of mind will go down. You will find yourself becoming depressed, nervous, anxious and upset.

The Buddhist message is a message not of the negation of life, but one of affirmation.