Happiness is something that comes from creating good karma. The monk who feels that what they are doing is unpleasant is not really creating any good karma and will not have a better lifetime.

The personality structure at the time of death dissolves. You will never be exactly the you you are again.

There's this cave and all humanity is in it and there's this terribly bright light at the other end and everybody's afraid of it.

Only one who has achieved immortality of awareness can laugh with life and laugh with death.

How do you overcome the negative karmas and problems and misery that occur to people who abuse power? You stop abusing power.

The wisdom of samadhi is quite different. Higher level wisdom cannot be written down. It cannot be spoken. True wisdom is the knowledge of the universe that is beyond physical expression.

Go directly to Nirvana. Don't pass go - or you'll have kids, you'll grow old together, you'll be born into another realm where you'll forget that there was even nirvana.