I consider those persons to be my students who come and meditate with me on a regular basis, who, in spite of the hardships and difficulties on the path of knowledge, still continue to try, and who respect me as I respect them.

The issue is not what you're doing with your body; it's what you're doing with your mind.

The human mind and the entire life process is chaotic. Chaos is not something that lacks order; chaos has varieties of order within it.

I try to teach people to continually search and question the meaning of everything they are taught and everything they believe in. My job is not so much to impart a philosophy but to train people in the methods of self-discovery.

Something in you wants to go beyond, wants to be free from this endless round of perception. Enlightenment is that.

Help the world in any way that you want to. I have found that the more light you give and spread, the more you will evolve.

It's as if all your past is written on the blackboard, and if we could erase it, your past would no longer exist. The way you do that - the only way you do that - is in samadhi.