As Buddha points out, you should not rely on the opinions of others for validation of your internal progression.

Most people are operating out of repetition. If you come to work or school each day with the same mind-state, you probably can't get more out of it than you did yesterday.

Simply by performing good actions and thinking good thoughts you will not attain enlightenment. It takes something more.

This culture seems to be so obsessed with sexuality, the good and the bad of it. Every advertisement, every preacher, everybody's concerned, one way or the other about sexuality.

Clothes can have a very refined vibration. An ochre robe can be extremely refined and so can a wonderful satin gown or a silk brocade coast.

Forever is not an idea or a concept, it is reality. All of the things here come from forever. We call forever nirvana in Zen.

I don't think anyone knows why they meditate. As a matter of fact I'm not even sure that we do meditate. All we know is that we don't know.