You're an emanation of enlightenment. Enlightenment, which is the universe, has created the hallucination that is you in a form that shifts.

Buddhism is simply a methodology, a way of becoming one with the part of ourselves that is happy.

In the West the wise are usually thought of as leaders. In the East, the wise are very often though of as followers.

Your choices are really very limited. They are limited by your level of awareness. If you can change your level of awareness radically, then you can change your destiny.

There are places where it is easy to see, places of illumination, where one moves into illumined states of attention.

Illusions are shadows moving endlessly across the ground. The shadows are quite real but they're shadows. They have very little substance.

It is only when we are by ourselves that we can know others. When we are with other human beings we are distracted. People try and dream us into their dreams.