Self-realization doesn't imply loss, gain, even transition; it's only a settling. The separate sounds on the beach, the birds, the waves, the wind. They all come together again, they blend, they harmonize.

At the moment you're suffering from what we call Maya. Maya is illusion. Maya is a Sanskrit word that suggests that we have forgotten. We've forgotten the purpose of life.

The strongest factor in conditioning is sex, in the sense that the first thing that a person is really taught is whether they are male or female.

Ingnore your thoughts. As you focus more intensely, you may feel as if you are floating.

All the creations of God stretch out infinitely. All times, past, present and future for all beings, worlds unimagined

Put the mind in alignment with the ten thousand radiances of enlightenment and experience them in various gradations forever. That's the total purpose of a monk.

Very few individuals have the tenacity and the love to propel them beyond everything they know and can trust to face the unknown, let alone be absorbed in it.