Reading books about enlightenment does not make you enlightened at all. You have to meditate yourself.

As you focus your attention on the heart center, you will begin to feel your thoughts slowing down. You'll begin to feel your mind becoming calm and quiet. They won't bother you.

When there is no thought in the mind, no thought of thought, when the mind is quiet but fully alert, we experience a little bit of enlightenment.

The operative condition on this particular planet, the central mode which human beings follow, is fear. We are taught to fear.

The stars in the sky last for billions of years. That's nothing to the mind, nothing. It's an instant, a millisecond. The mind shines radiantly forever. But we don't see the shine because of the clutter.

There is no end to the petals of the inner rose. Continue to unfold set after set of petals until you have completed your meditation session.

Death is simply a change in perception. It is not an end to perception as a finite being.