The person who's in the Zen monastery, who's doing a kind of poor job at meditating and a half-ass job cleaning the gardens is not doing very good yoga.

The Buddhists believe that everything in life is random. There are patterns that are intrinsic to life. We don't know why, we just know they're there like the DNA. We have no idea.

Those who scorn and hate the world and hate themselves miss the point. The point was that there wasn't one. There was no place to go to.

We see very few people who are satisfied. They say that the only ones who are really happy are the enlightened or the fools.

If you do well within this life, that awareness will be held within the causal structure, the part of us that lives from one lifetime to another. It will be available to you in your next life and in future lives.

Before beginning an activity always first empty yourself of thoughts regarding what you are about to do.

There are many different forms of life in the universe and human beings are unaware of most of them. Complex beings inhabit other dimensions. They can be very dangerous when encountered, unless, of course, you know how to handle or avoid them.