We live in the dark ages. If an intelligent society can destroy itself in large numbers and places the largest amount of revenues in instruments of destruction, it is certainly not an evolved society or an intelligent society.

Words are deceptive. You think you understand something because it's explained to you and now you are under no obligation to do anything because you understand it.

If we get too caught up in the rhetoric of meditation, we will miss the point. The point was to go beyond rhetoric.

You might say living in a monastery cuts down the commutation time. That alone gives you a couple extra hours a day to meditate. In a monastery you lead a relatively simply life. You don't need a lot of possessions.

As we go within the self, we discover that all the voices of our past lives are still there. As we peel ourselves, which is a process very much like peeling an onion, we discover that there are many selves within the self.

They have said this is a lower level. Ridiculous! They're really both the same light, just two different forms.

There is a way to reach enlightenment and get beyond suffering.