Human beings are not so in harmony with the dharma. That is why they suffer so much. But you as an individual can reach a plane of attention and can become attention itself.

You become someone else when you meditate. It isn't just a little technique. If you really pursue it, you change radically - you evolve.

In Buddhism you study how to release the kundalini to the levels that would certainly afford career success. If we move it further, into the planes of knowledge and wisdom, it enables the practitioner to do just about anything.

We are going to alter the structure of our beings and also totally change what we are. This is the possibility and inevitability that meditation offers us.

What you have done causes things to happen. Your situation in life now has been caused, is predicated upon, your previous actions. That is karma.

Happiness only comes when you let go of who you think you are. If you think you're wealthy and powerful and noble and truthful or horrible and demonic, whatever it may be, it's all a waste of time. Take it from the Zen Master. He knows.

People who are drawn to meditation have had lots of incarnation in the world of experience, and we know the score. We know that experience is great, but it's not enough.