Your whole life is inside your mind. Your mind is the prism that refracts the entire universe. Everything around you and within you comes from your mind.

I had a mother who was very developed psychically and spiritually. She was, in a way, an opposite of my father, a complete liberal, interested in woman's liberation before it was the fashion.

In the state of emptiness, you are the action not the performer of the action. Allow an activity or event to take precedence over your own point of view.

In the second stage we stop thought for limited periods of time.

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.

When you could get angry with someone and separate yourself from them, don't do that. If you have people who are difficult to deal with, be neither attracted nor repulsed. Go a step higher.

Towards the end of your meditation session, or when you feel your meditation is deep, chant "Kring" seven times. Repeat it with sharp intensity, without elongating the syllables.