It's not logical, self-realization. If it was, everybody would be self-realized because everybody is logical.

Don't be afraid. You are as alive as anything else is alive. Your right to be alive is as great as the right of anything else.

When you die you forget. Death is a sleep, a forgetting. You forget about your previous lifetime. The essence of your being is the same. But at death, the personality dissolves

All I can say is that these cult stories are totally untrue, are without any foundation, and trade on a deep bias against Westerners who dare to embrace an Eastern belief-system.

The very advanced practitioners of martial arts never had to raise a hand. They could knock an opponent down without physically touching them, just with chi, pure power. We don't see too many of them anymore.

With the use of psychedelics, it was all based around the Tibetan Book of the Dead, using them to experience enlightenment.

See your life as not just your life but as eternity. Be so completely integrated in the experience of perception that there's no sense of a perceiver but just the fluid moment of ecstasy that is reality unfolding itself to itself.