The anti-pleasure movement in self-discovery is very strong. I have big news for them, if they ever get to enlightenment, which is unlikely the way they're approaching it, they're going to find that enlightenment is very pleasurable.

Sometimes people start to meditate and they get a headache. It's because they're trying too hard. You're pulling in too much energy.

It is the teacher's job to point out mistakes so that an individual doesn't continue to hurt themselves or others.

Right and wrong are concepts that only have meaning in this world, so by sorting existence on those characteristics, we are defining ourselves to exist only in this world.

Kundalini is generated through cultivating humility, purity, through meditation, selfless giving, and by studying with an advanced teacher on a personal level.

Any of the exercises that you start out with will get the kundalini moving. You don't have to stay with them for the entire period of meditation.

It is the Buddhist belief that all things, experiences and people are inherently empty. That is a simple way of saying that all physical and nonphysical things have another side.