You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give you the impetus to meditate.

Dying is easy; it's living that's difficult.

It is through many lifetimes of shifting the aggregate of the self that one finally reaches a point of maximum velocity whereby one can snap off the circle completely and move into freedom.

When you realize your own emptiness, that will be something, won't it?

The idea of the walls of monastery was to keep everybody else out because you wanted to develop a certain type of life. Most people in the world had different ideas on the subject.

Salvakalpa samadhi is absorption in eternity to the point where there is no real concept of self but there's still a karmic chain. Nirvikalpa samadhi is absorption in nirvana; concepts of self and no-self go away completely.

If we get too caught up in the rhetoric of meditation, we will miss the point. The point was to go beyond rhetoric.