The body comes and goes. This life, my friend, will come and go. It is a fleeting moment, an impulse in an eternal reality.

What the teacher does is sweep all of the logic, order and reason onto one side and make that side very strong.

Everyone in advanced meditation practice should be involved with the economic support of the spread of the dharma. We live in a material world, and it's very expensive to teach meditation.

When you do something half-heartedly, you don't get much of a result. When you do it fully, you get a great result.

Behind the transient reality, there is something else. It is a deeper, more permanent and unchanging reality that we Buddhists call nirvana.

There is a big difference between the lower samadhis and the upper samadhis, like the difference between the Sierras and the Himalayas.

Meditation is a bright, hopeful practice in which we learn to make our mind quiet so that the infinite, perfect light of enlightenment can flow through us.