Unfortunately we've seen meditation insulted in a sense with the image of ritual. You have to dress a certain way, follow a certain type of lifestyle, all that sort of thing, very culty - and that, of course, has nothing to do with the practice whatsoever.

The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness.

If you know that you have had countless lives, then what happens in this life is not quite as traumatic.

There are places where it is easy to see, places of illumination, where one moves into illumined states of attention.

Those who practice deserve your respect. If you respect them, you respect yourself. It's easy to be critical, but it does no good. What's important is to be supportive of all who practice.

I am a teacher because teaching allows me to observe the universe at work, that moment when wakefulness suddenly occurs.

Be neither attracted nor repulsed. You are watching a movie. If the visions are beautiful or horrible, Don't get caught up in them. Enjoy your popcorn.