If you are going to experience the ecstasy of enlightenment, it is not just going to be a phrase. You've got to work during meditation. So back to the navel center!

Be careful of someone who starts asking a lot of questions about you. Start asking a lot of questions about them. Turn it around.

It's not my light to begin with, in a sense; it's the light of God, the light of eternity. So take all you want!

I was very drawn to music of all types, from Beethoven to Jimi Hendrix. There were musicians and composers who obviously were expressing a vision that was beyond the mundane.

Start a meditation session by repeating a mantra, perhaps, "Aum", which is the most powerful of all mantras. Then, after repeating the mantra perhaps a dozen times, focus on a yantra.

Everyone experiences desire. Desire is not bad. There is no good or bad from the point of view of karma. There is only structured reaction.

A Buddhist monk has a responsibility first and foremost to themselves, and that's to find the truth each day in every part of their life.