There is only eternity. That's our real body. The stars are our blanket. Time doesn't even exist, except in our own minds.

Everyone in advanced meditation practice should be involved with the economic support of the spread of the dharma. We live in a material world, and it's very expensive to teach meditation.

Learn to meditate, practice and don't get frustrated. It will take you years to learn to meditate perfectly. Every time you try, you are growing. It's not as if you have to meditate perfectly to make progress.

I had a father who was strong and kind and loving beyond ... at the same time who was extremely puritanical, who had been raised in a religion with extensive morality.

Stop trying to be different. Just do what you are good at, and work really hard. You have to work hard to be chaos.

I'm not suggesting that everyone should meditate, far from it. Meditation is for very few individuals. I'm speaking of something that is a powerful experience.

As you meditate, you will discover, pleasantly, that you too can see beyond this life, that you can see your eternality.