I can assure you that next to my bed, there is always a copy of the Dharmapada which I read from every night.

You can just sit and space out. A lot of people do that and think they are doing a wonderful meditation.

Human beings going to their jobs and living their lives are unconscious. They don't know what's going on. They don't know why you are born or why you die.

You have to come to the world of enlightenment with open hands, not clinched fists, without an agenda.

Real winning and losing all takes place at the meditation table. This is where the battles are. Winning is stopping thought. Losing is sitting there and being subjected to all kinds of ridiculous thoughts

When you abuse willpower you waste it. There really is not an infinite supply of it at your disposal. There is an infinite supply of it in the universe.

A lot of people have this live or die attitude with mediation. It has to be all or nothing. I don't think it should be. It's a study that you follow for the rest of your life.