Enlightenment is a timeless void. It's an emptiness that's filled with the most excellent light.

If you attain liberation do not feel that it matters or it is important. You had nothing to do with it. If you are bound by ignorance do not feel bad. You had nothing to do with it.

Focusing on an enlightened teacher is a doorway. It is not a person. We are focusing on the light that passes through them. We are moving through them into the planes of light and eventually to nirvana.

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.

The fulfillment of desire does not necessarily make you happy because there is a satiation factor. You can get some apple pie and eat it. If this is what makes you happy, why not eat ten?

The Chinese used the symbol of tai chi, the undifferentiated reality - no separation, no left and right.

Love is something that comes to us in life. Quietly, it overwhelms us. It is something that you cultivate. You make it happen.