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

Behind the transient reality, there is something else. It is a deeper, more permanent and unchanging reality that we Buddhists call nirvana.

What is perfect? From the Zen mind, perfection is not being there.

It is necessary to learn how to do a systems analysis of your life, to learn about the effects of places, people, jobs. There are millions of things that go into the study of meditation.

The dream is so thick; the Maya is so thick. There's no magic as long as there's all this thought. So the first condition for the practice of higher magic is the stopping of thought.

There are no words, there's only the possibility of a moment even more incredible a little bit further down the road.

Go through the things that life gives you to go through, happily. You have to loosen the grip of time, gradually.