Keep a sense of humor, that keeps you balanced, and you'll do quite well with it all, I'm sure.

Practice meditating on the heart chakra. This is only one of them, but it's quite good for the first few years of your meditative practice.

The next best thing is to work with those who are not quite there yet to bring them up to that level.

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.

The Eightfold Path is ordering the island of the tonal completely.

The key to gazing is stopping thought. Gazing is a soft focus; you are touching something with your luminosity. If you could but look into the mountains you would see a diffuse glow.

The I Ching tells us that for every ending there is a new beginning. In other words, what appears like a transition isn't really a transition; it's a continuum of existence. If you close your eyes for a moment the room will appear to go away. But does it really? Open your eyes again and the room will still be there. That's all death is.