If you want to become enlightened, you've got to get all the bullshit out of your life. You have to clear up your mind completely.

Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these experiences don't tend to last.

The perceiver of the dream, the one whom the dream is unfolding before, is what we call the Self.

Clothes can have a very refined vibration. An ochre robe can be extremely refined and so can a wonderful satin gown or a silk brocade coast.

It is best to think of karma, not so much in terms of physical action, but as waveforms of vibratory energy.

We really have no choice in the matter. We are given a description of the world that is much more potent and much deeper than you might realize.

The secret teaching was the bodhisattva ideal, to live for others, for the welfare of all beings. That's enlightenment, not some flashy state of luminosity.