Whatever you want you can get, when you understand the secret of will. But wisdom is needed so that you do not use your will abusively because you'll get hurt.

Life isn't complicated. The reason it appears complicated to you is because you are in a very distorted state of mind. That's the basic premise of Buddhism - that you're in a very distorted state of mind.

You could use a flower, a candle flame, anything you want that's suggestive of beauty and eternality.

The basic assumption of tantra is that God not only exists in the superconscious, God also exists in the lowest forms of existence.

You're not listening to the Zen master, what he is saying outwardly, but even more importantly...what he is saying inwardly.

Buddhism teaches us not to want things, not to avoid things, not to be upset by the loss. In the I Ching, there's a hexagram that says, "Be like the sun at midday". View all things as being equal.

It takes a number of years to learn to hold the mind perfectly in one place. But each day we do it a little better, and in the doing we're releasing energy that is taking our mind in higher diffuse planes of attention.