Put the mind in alignment with the ten thousand radiances of enlightenment and experience them in various gradations forever. That's the total purpose of a monk.

While I enjoy teaching people on the basic and intermediate levels to work them up to advanced levels, my real talent is for the advanced students. You could say that I'm like a ninth-degree black belt in martial arts.

It is only hard work that brings about results, doing things for others. Forget about your problems. Take responsibility for your life and make it into something beautiful in the midst of changing circumstances.

There are those who want to revolutionize the world with meditation. I really don't think that is necessary. The world is already revolutionized.

To love is to be balanced, to extend one's self beyond the sense of self.

When a person who has had highly evolved past lives is going through a strong past-life transit, that person comes to know things about life, death and other dimensions that most people in our world aren't aware of.

When you experience the light, voila, you're happy. The very nature of the light is happiness. You don't have to do anything or be anybody special.