Bodies come and go, ages come and go, yugas come and go, eternities come and go. Selves come and go.

Everything depends on your state of awareness. If your state of awareness is low, then all the material success in the world won't help.

Free will exists and operates outside causality. It is not hooked to karma. Free will is like a well that is on your property. You can choose to draw water from the well or not.

Be concerned with the welfare of others without any sense of self-importance that one is better because one meditates or leads a certain type of life.

There is an alternative. It's an old alternative. It's not for everybody. It's only for people who are smart, limited market. It's enlightenment.

There is no point in being a responsible member of society, nor is there any point in being an irresponsible member of society. Both are very defined descriptions of selfhood

If you have humility, you are willing to undertake anything to spread the dharma.