If a person sets out to practice meditation in this lifetime and they have a little bit of spiritual evolution behind them and they're quite dedicated, it really is not at all an impossible task to enter into salvakalpa samadhi in this particular lifetime.

In the West the wise are usually thought of as leaders. In the East, the wise are very often though of as followers.

Tantric Buddhists don't believe in sin. Stupidity, yes, meaning we make ourselves or others suffer.

People who are drawn to meditation have had lots of incarnation in the world of experience, and we know the score. We know that experience is great, but it's not enough.

The karma of immediate availability is the condition of your awareness field. The karma of potentiality is what is stored inside you from your past lives.

You're always looking for the ultimate. It's kind of like journeying to Ixtlan. You're never going to get there, but that is no reason not to try.

You need to shelter yourself from the abrasive forces of life that drain you and keep you in a lower state of mind.