The tantras are ancient sacred books of India and Tibet. The tantras detail specific means for attaining liberation.

I had a mother who was very developed psychically and spiritually. She was, in a way, an opposite of my father, a complete liberal, interested in woman's liberation before it was the fashion.

The tantras can be very confusing for a person who is new to Buddhism, and for several thousand years the rule was not to expose a person or a new monk to the tantras until they had practiced for many, many years.

Your tonal must accept that the nagual exists and that it's beneficial and healthy.

The sensual world cannot be avoided. We're in it at every moment. We are part of it.

It's suggested that enlightenment has some tremendous compassion, some driving necessity to help humanity. I don't think that's the case at all. I think humanity wishes it were the case since it's humanity that writes the various scriptures.

You become someone else when you meditate. It isn't just a little technique. If you really pursue it, you change radically - you evolve.