A Buddhist monk has a responsibility first and foremost to themselves, and that's to find the truth each day in every part of their life.

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.

Tantra is not sexual yoga. When the word tantra is used in the West, very often people immediately associate it with some kind of sexual yoga in which you use sex as a vehicle for enlightenment.

Most people are completely oblivious to eternity. They look at the sky at night and they think that's eternity; it is just the senses having contact in the sense world. There are other dimensions.

I'm not exactly sure where we are, but I'm confident of where we're not.

Don't try to be someone. Be yourself. This is what mediation should teach you.

In meditation, as you go into the causal dimensions, the planes of light, you will be purified, energized and you will become wise.