That's why their realization is not integrated and complete, and they must go through many, many lifetimes very often before that acceptance will take place.

Some people say that if you have sex you can't be enlightened. I think it isn't really so much whether you have sex or not, but it's what you're doing with your attention level during that time.

As a monk you have a responsibility to meditate many hours a day. Not just to sit there but to think of the ten thousand radiances.

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.

When you love someone, you shouldn't feel that they should love in return. You have to give people freedom.

Psychic beings are childlike, delicate and easily destroyed.

Many people, including Buddhist monks, spend thousands of hours sitting in what they call meditation. In reality, what they're doing is thinking and ruminating upon their problems.