In the beginning, when you are meditating, just ignore thought. Shine it on. Then after you are comfortable sitting there, try selectively eliminating negative thoughts, thoughts that agitate the mind.

You are your state of mind. Your state of mind creates your view, or your window, on life.

From my own personal encounters and studies with both Tantric and Zen Buddhist monks, I have found them to be humorous, warm, charming, and compassionate.

A better lifetime comes from not some karmic scale but from inner knowledge. Inner knowledge makes you happy. In other words, it is not as if someone is checking!

You identify with your self. You have a personal history. You have commitments. There are things that you want to experience and other things that you want to avoid.

We feel crowded by other people; we feel crowded by social rules; we feel crowded by ourselves, mainly.

The idea of self is dependent upon attraction, aversion and memory. Memory is simply a serial account of attractions and aversions that don't exist now except in imagination.