Most power is lost in one's own mind by thinking negative thoughts, by worrying about the future, by focusing on the past, as opposed to thinking positive, strong, and happy thoughts.

The souls now incarnating are power souls. It is a dark age. To incarnate now one needs psychic self-defense.

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

In Tantric Buddhism our feeling is that there is no problem with the sensual world unless you have a tremendous attraction or aversion to it.

You identify with your self. You have a personal history. You have commitments. There are things that you want to experience and other things that you want to avoid.

It is not a good idea to continually repeat a mantra during meditation. Repeating a mantra throughout your mediation causes you to fixate on a specific level of consciousness.

Tantra is non-dogmatic, in the sense that we don't care about the sensual world; we don't care about other religious traditions. To not care doesn't mean that we don't learn.