I too have experienced the extreme pain of living, but I have also experienced some of its remarkable ecstasy.

I was initiated as a Buddhist monk at the age of 19, but I think that initiation is simply a starting point.

In the West people are basically oblivious to power, solstices, enlightenment and everything that matters.

Illusions are shadows moving endlessly across the ground. The shadows are quite real but they're shadows. They have very little substance.

We don't always walk from one state of mind into another. We might just oscillate back and forth for a whole lifetime within the polarities of a certain state of mind.

At the time of death, whatever you have focused on the most will determine your next life.

People think they can tame the earth. How absurd! The vanity of human wishes is endless. It is more fun to dance with life.