I saw more truth and sensitivity in art than I did in many of the people in this world.

The third stage is no thought. No thought is not the end of meditation. It is the beginning of higher meditation.

We cut up time and space and mind and place and being and non-being. We create a world of ideas. This is duality, pairs of apparent opposites.

The inner aspects of reincarnation have to do with where you put your mind. The more expansive state of mind you enter into, the less suffering there is.

The perfect view of existence comes from an unclouded, uncluttered life and mind whereby the radiance of perfect attention of the mind of the universe floods us at every moment. This is Buddhism. This is being on the path.

What is evil? There is no such thing. In Buddhism we don't recognize evil and therefore we don't give it any power over us.

Words like meditation, karma, samskaras, they're just words. You can get into the jargon, you can speak it, but that doesn't mean you'll be any freer.