You cannot compel someone to love. Love is like the wind. It comes when it does, it stops when it does, it changes direction when it does. Who are you and I to criticize the wind?

The Buddha taught three cycles of teachings. His first cycle of teachings cover the basics, the prerequisites. This would include the Dharmapada.

The Buddha gave his first talks, and three or four ascetics became his first disciples. They recognized his enlightenment.

The issue is not what you're doing with your body; it's what you're doing with your mind.

As long as you continue to run away from the world, I will not be able to show you your luminosity.

The primary quality that Lao Tzu seems to emobdy is humility, which is the image of water - seeking the common level of existence.

The highest octave kundalini is the golden light which occurs in the supraconscious; it is the supraconscious. It's what they call Sat Chit Ananda - existence, consciousness, bliss ... full consciousness.