There are two worlds, the world of desire and the world of enlightenment. The world of enlightenment doesn't go anywhere. It is endless, luminous perfection. The world of desire leads to more desire.

You have to free yourself from your mental conditioning through association with the holy, through doing good works, through meditating, through laughter, through love and through solitude.

Universities are very clarifying places of power, because everyone is focused on trying to figure out exactly what to do with their lives.

We see the most beautiful creations whither. The beautiful young maiden becomes the old woman and she hates her body because it isn't what it used to be. The young man becomes the old dotard who has trouble remembering.

The best form of meditation is the sitting meditation. But work is next. Work is a great way to meditate.

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.

If you can die, you are confused because death is a perception of something ending and something else obviously beginning, which means we're still hung up on qualities.