It is necessary to learn how to do a systems analysis of your life, to learn about the effects of places, people, jobs. There are millions of things that go into the study of meditation.

Smile sometimes when things aren't going well, and maybe realize when they aren't going well, they are.

Humankind has no idea what existence is, at this stage. They're all dreaming, they're all asleep... Once in a great while a fully awakened one is here, observes everybody is sleeping and leaves, quietly.

No self-effort in the direction of enlightenment is ever wasted. Even if you don't become fully enlightened in a given lifetime, you will be much happier and more aware.

The Buddha gave his first talks, and three or four ascetics became his first disciples. They recognized his enlightenment.

Taoism shows us how to deal with life and death by realizing everything here is transitory but its substance is eternal.

The purpose of all our explanations is not to have you understand anything, but for you to snap from the understanding of the intellect to the understanding of pure spirit. All our explanations work backwards.