The path is focus. The power of focus is absolutely essential. To stop all thoughts, you have to have tremendous power of focus.

There are different pathways - be it Zen, tantra, karma yoga, or jnana yoga. Different ways have been devised to do the same thing for different types of people according to their temperament.

Outside of nirvana, the planes begin, the subtlest planes of light that vibrate fastest, all the way on down through the astral realms through the physical and so on.

At the moment of birth you are the product of everything that has occurred in every lifetime you've had.

To look for truth in all the wrong and all the right places is the only excuse for living.

I lived in a community where celibacy was the rule. My I saw many people asked to leave the ashram for so much as looking intensely at a member of the opposite sex.

There are many universes, many dimensions. They are endless. Most of them are not particularly relevant for us. They won't help us. They won't make us happier.