During those years the past life recollections began. Psychic powers developed, my meditation increased and I found myself changing, over and over again, becoming someone new almost every day.

The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and suffering.

The outer form of Buddhism, of practice, is etiquette - a series of ways to live intelligently that keep you alive, awake and happy, wakeful.

At the beginning and the middle and the end of all things, there is only the perfection of enlightenment that is nirvana.

This is a world of unhappy beings. They don't understand how simple it is to be happy. You just have to practice meditation. To meditate is to be happy.

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

Gradually, you were given a description of the world, a way of seeing, which is largely sexual.