Sometimes there are people who only meditate with a teacher. They ride the teacher's energy. They don't really learn how to meditate. They learn how to ride the energy.

I believe that it is the responsibility of everyone in corporate life to help with the funding of non-profit organizations.

Our past affects us, our present affects us, and even our future can affect us. We live in the relative world of time and space.

I never considered myself to be special. If anything, I considered myself to be awkward, and still do sometimes.

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.

The Buddhist mindset seeks to eliminate the self. That is to say, what we want to experience is life, not self. When there's less self and more life, we're very content, and when there's more self and less life we're quite unhappy.

They had the same fears that you have, the same aggressive tendencies and the same attachments, but they were freed in time because they believed.