Our knowledge, experience, and wisdom can assist us in gaining more from this life, which will correctly set up our next life.

Buddhists believe that you are who you are today is because of who you have been in all your past lives.

A person of knowledge and power never goes out looking for battles. All their battles are within.

You can live in the world and have friends, family and possessions. But don't take them all too seriously. Death removes everything. Feel death is every moment, as life is every moment.

There is really only one Zen Master ... and that's yourself.

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.

Fulfillment of desire taken to extremes doesn't necessarily make us happy. It tends to make us rather cynical.