Examine everything that you've been taught, not simply what you've been taught in school, but the images that have been held up to you since the time of your birth.

You can live in the world and have all the myriad experiences that life has to offer and yoke your awareness field to the planes of light, and eventually to nirvana itself.

At these crossover points, there are a lot of beings, nonphysical beings that cross over back and forth constantly.

At the beginning and the middle and the end of all things, there is only the perfection of enlightenment that is nirvana.

In Buddhism we don't really believe in sin and salvation as Westerners would define them. We believe in the limitless possibilities of the present and of future moments.

You don't need anybody to tell you what is right or wrong. What you need, perhaps, is someone to show you how to come to those understandings.

Perception is a wave. You change as your perception of something changes because you define yourself as a reflection of whatever you happen to perceive.