When you manipulate others your attention level drops and you become prey, for you have dropped to the plane of manipulation.

The teaching of the ten thousand states of mind, particularly as one advances further, is done through transmission. This is where we differ from teaching algebra or calculus.

Until your physical togetherness increases, your development in the inner worlds will not increase.

They've destroyed their environment, by and large. They've eliminated most other species on the planet, which is just an indication of their sloppiness and their deadness and their oblivion - but even more so, they've cut themselves off from happiness.

The person who's in the Zen monastery, who's doing a kind of poor job at meditating and a half-ass job cleaning the gardens is not doing very good yoga.

At extremely high processing speeds we are able to find patterns of order in what other people would perceive as chaos.

Reason is necessary. It is necessary to deal with the world.