Tantra is spiritual, not religious. It deals with the spirit. Religion is just an applied body of doctrines that's believed or not believed by one or more individuals. Spirituality is the science of metaphysics.

When one side or the other predominates, there's an imbalance and there's unhappiness.

Some people think Taoism means not doing anything, just going on with your life. That has little or nothing to do with Taoism.

I found light in the darkness ... or it found me.

Put the mind in alignment with the ten thousand radiances of enlightenment and experience them in various gradations forever. That's the total purpose of a monk.

We live in a competitive society. To pretend that it is not there is ridiculous. That is how the whole planet is set up. If you are not competitive, you do not succeed, you do not survive.

His second cycle of teachings discusses the cosmology of the universes. But in his later years, he wrote the tantric texts.