Power doesn't make you happy. Actually, power without knowledge and balance is problematic. Power is something that will automatically follow when you have knowledge. The two are really the same, in a certain sense.

The essence of your awareness field definitely goes on after death. It goes through death, it goes into non-physical states for a time, and then eventually is pulled back and it reincarnates.

Buddhism leads you to the awareness that all things are holy. Everything is holy. The dark has its own light, in other words.

The end of this world occurs when you move from one world into another, from one reality into another.

We create ying and yang, yes and no, plus and minus.

Some of the most exalted states of consciousness I experienced were in bed with someone, alone, or with my spiritual teacher. There was never a difference for me.

Perception defines everything.