Buddhism suggests there are no elect. Everything rests upon your own self-effort, which is the good news because that means you don't have to wait around for some nebulous God to help you.

There is illusion, the way you see things now, thinking that there is a tomorrow, there is a today, there is time and that there is life and death. Those are just appearances

When you laugh at the world, the world dissolves.

As we grow older and mature in each incarnation, we are drawn back to samskaras, to previous interests and pursuits.

If you are just spaced out and you have no purpose in life, you pick everything up. Everybody else's thoughts will come into your mind, everyone else's desires.

Kundalini energy passes through the shushumna, which is a Sanskrit name for an astral nerve channel that runs along the spinal column.

Beyond the subtle physical body, is the causal body, the part of your being that lives from one lifetime to another.