If you work an extra ten hours to help spread the dharma, this will cause for much faster progression. You're doing something for a higher cause, for a higher ideal.

Buddhism teaches us not to want things, not to avoid things, not to be upset by the loss. In the I Ching, there's a hexagram that says, "Be like the sun at midday". View all things as being equal.

Consciousness, like a complex system of software, has thousands of levels of nested, self-accessing subroutines

Focusing on an enlightened teacher is a doorway. It is not a person. We are focusing on the light that passes through them. We are moving through them into the planes of light and eventually to nirvana.

Power comes from leading a controlled life, a happy life, a perky life.

Many people who help me encounter a lot of resistance from other people and from forces.

You can summon up power from past lives and bring them into this life. That can give you a boost into the next state of mind or further up.