It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha's discovery was happiness and bliss.

All the things you need in the death transition, you need now in the life transition, because life is a transition, it is a between state. Therefore, every night when you fall asleep, it's like you die. And every time you do, you should be using the process of falling asleep as giving up your attention to sense objects, your discursive ruminating thoughts and so on. You should use that as a process of giving up and giving yourself completely to the universe and becoming completely obliterated.

The worldly person is insane from the point of view of the spiritual person.

Greed, the desire to incorporate, is magnified and fed back to produce the pretan realms, just as hate creates the hells.

The person who is tormenting the Tibetans feels they have to get rid of the Tibetans in order to be happy.

Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like. Remember, it is not the size of a gift, it is its quality and the amount of mental attachment you overcome that count. So don't bankrupt yourself on a momentary positive impulse, only to regret it later. Give thought to giving. Give small things, carefully, and observe the mental processes going along with the act of releasing the little thing you liked.

When all is lost, when all is let go of, when all is abandoned, what you are left with is an ocean of bliss.