Practice meditating on the heart chakra. This is only one of them, but it's quite good for the first few years of your meditative practice.

When you go into samadhi, either salvikalpa or nirvikalpa, what happens is you erase, you loosen, the aggregates. You simplify them.

Happiness is the most elusive thing for human beings to find.

At the time of death we walk through a doorway and our spirit, which is very thin, slides through into another world.

What is will? It is a decision. It is a decision to be something. We really aren't anything in particular. We can be anything. That's the good news.

Emotional control is essential for attaining higher levels of mind. The thing that the teacher looks for in a student is the degree of self-control, not coldness that someone has.

They might see that you are going to meet a beautiful woman or a beautiful man. They will come to you in dreams and tell you this is going to happen because of them.