Real happiness is something most people never know. What we experience in deep meditation, that ecstasy is beyond what human beings call happiness

I was initiated as a Buddhist monk at the age of 19, but I think that initiation is simply a starting point.

You have all died many times before and none of you look the worse for it.

Physical perfection, working out, adds to your spiritual perfection if that is your intent.

The possibilities for immortality are endless. Here you sit reading these words, a butterfly resting on a flower!

There is no future and there is no past, there never has been, there never will be. You just think there is. It's not life that moves; it's awareness.

The aura of billions of people coats all experiences like a thick cloud of smog. Just to live on the earth is to live in that smog.