At every moment, you have the opportunity to crap out. The world will always tell you to play it safe and just be dead.

The smoke from the fire passes through the building and the soot affixes itself to the walls. The smoke passes through the air and keeps going - liberation.

A teacher is not someone you need perpetually. You need them to show you how to get through the doorway; but once you get through the doorway, you are on your own.

At the end of meditation period we always bow and we touch our head to the floor and say "Buddha's name be praised."

Unlike the transient days of our lives that constantly come and go, nirvana has always been, is now, and always will be.

The comedies, the tragedies we see played out on this earth before us, don't last. But we are eternal spirits. These events will come and go, but the planes of light and nirvana will always be there.

Happiness is self-generated as the mind becomes still. As we become involved with the desires of the world, we lose that centering, that stillness.