The mystical kundalini is something that I normally use when we're on field trips, when we go to a place of power.

Mindfulness is the ability to do physical things in a harmonious way; it is a way to remain centered in a physical world that is out of balance.

Everything depends on your state of awareness. If your state of awareness is low, then all the material success in the world won't help.

The strongest factor in conditioning is sex, in the sense that the first thing that a person is really taught is whether they are male or female.

You are no different in this lifetime than you were in your last lifetime. This lifetime is simply a continuation of your last lifetime.

The teaching of the ten thousand states of mind, particularly as one advances further, is done through transmission. This is where we differ from teaching algebra or calculus.

The tantras can be very confusing for a person who is new to Buddhism, and for several thousand years the rule was not to expose a person or a new monk to the tantras until they had practiced for many, many years.