You're thinking that you shouldn't have sex because you're celibate. So you just keep thinking about sex instead of enlightenment.

Who's to say what's right or wrong? The courts and the society can be totally wrong. Nazi Germany, what did they say was the right thing to do? To destroy and burn Jews.

If you are mindful in your work, if you put your best effort into it, then something comes back to you.

There is a whole crazy world around you. You can't control it, so don't even try. Because the more you try to control your environment, the more it controls you.

Tantric Buddhism is just a collection of things that work by doing them. And sometimes we add new things. We have electronic music; we did not have it in Tibet.

Sensations of peace, joy, and love will enter into you. They will be very subtle at first. Then they will grow stronger.

Shakespeare said: "There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow." Everything happens perfectly.