A society that destroys the environment that supports it, I would not consider to be intelligent life. It's like the cancer that ultimately kills itself by destroying the host it feeds on.

There is no continuity at all. The universe isn't any particular way. It strictly depends upon perception.

What you will be in your next life is the sum total of the realizations that you have had in this lifetime.

The samurais lived with death constantly. They wore a short dagger to take their own life if need be. At any moment they might have to do that, it was a part of their code.

It is the mind that weaves the dream of life, it convinces us that what we see is what is apparent and what is real, and that there's nothing else outside of our perception.

People on the pathway to enlightenment become very successful in whatever they approach, because they have learned to discipline the mind.

The more completely you concentrate, the stronger your mind becomes.