Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment, and I would encourage you to follow that pathway as far as you can, into ecstasy.

I don't engage in brainwashing, I don't dictate forms of lifestyle, I don't perform mass marriages or even singular marriages. I don't tell people what to believe.

You and I might define a 'soul mate' differently. For most people, a soul mate has some kind of sexual connotation.

A categorization implies a hierarchical way of seeing things. Life is really relational, not hierarchical. Hierarchical is a human way of looking at things. Relational is much more the way things are. Everything is connected.

The vast majority of the students I have taught have become self-sufficient and confident individuals who enjoy their lives.

It is better when you are in the world. You know how much pain there is. You can tell how established you are in the light. To remove yourself from the things you desire or things you find difficult to deal with is no answer.

Do not feel that you are destined to enlightenment in this life. You have no idea. This is an illusion of selfhood. It's gross ignorance and egotism.