When you are meditating, after you've meditated on the yantra or candle flame, simply try feeling gratitude. Sit and feel grateful to existence because you are meditating.

A lot of the parallel processing software we're currently developing for supercomputers is tantric.

What goes on in this one little lifetime is not so important as you might like to think it is because you're in it. When you can see the larger picture, it's just a tiny breath in a succession of breaths.

Today in the west the word 'guru' has come to mean someone who leads a cult, someone who deprives others of their intellectual or spiritual freedom and rips them off financially.

When your home is perfect, every plant in place, every piece of furniture suits the space completely - you've completed a task.

If this is the only life, then everything assumes too great an importance. We have to get everything out of life and we overdo it.

In Buddhist Yoga, we refer to our mutlilife karmic traits as samskaras. They are the internal karmic patterns that make each of us who we are.