Flaky devotionalism, bowing and scraping and sucking up to the teacher is very phony. It is counterproductive to enlightenment and spiritual development. What is necessary is mutual respect.

In Tantric Buddhism we call the inherent knowledge that all animate and inanimate objects possess of themselves - their emptiness.

Enlightenment has nothing to do with being spiritual. Being spiritual is just an idea - it's another ring of perception.

Only the fool wants to go into battle to beat someone for the satisfaction of beating someone.

Today in the west the word 'guru' has come to mean someone who leads a cult, someone who deprives others of their intellectual or spiritual freedom and rips them off financially.

Enlightenment is a timeless void. It's an emptiness that's filled with the most excellent light.

What is will? It is a decision. It is a decision to be something. We really aren't anything in particular. We can be anything. That's the good news.