When you go into samadhi, either salvikalpa or nirvikalpa, what happens is you erase, you loosen, the aggregates. You simplify them.

It's considered very, very bad karma, if I can cut to the chase, to take power from a teacher and not use it for something very positive.

People we are emotionally open to and close to affect us more than most people realize. If you are emotionally open to people, you will find yourself experiencing the mindset of others.

The universe is holding congress with itself.

This is the process of mental analysis, sifting through the selves, sifting through your thoughts, practicing mindfulness, learning to control thought.

We are transmuting the reality of our perceptual field. There are endless, beautiful and perfect universes - or you can go beyond universes to the dissolution, where there's no beginning.

You are not what you seem to be. You are one of God's endless dreams in search of wakefulness. Meditation is wakefulness.