To overcome stress you have to find out something. You've got to do some research and homework. You need to find out who you are today.

If you are with a fully enlightened being, a jivan mukta, liberated soul, the quality of light is so clear, that you don't really know that it is there until later.

In America people have this funny idea about enlightenment and money. Money expresses a level of commitment. Studying enlightenment is like going to a university.

For the person who wants to get to the mystical experience directly, Tantric Buddhism is the path.

You can't teach someone to be enlightened. It's something you have to go and do. You can't teach someone to meditate well. It's something you have to go and do.

The highest teaching is never written down. It's only communicated from teacher to student because it's a "transmission of the lamp." It's a transmission of mind.

If you act impetuously, it will be uncertain, and you'll know it. It just won't feel right. It is better to wait.