When you realize the nature of mind, layers of confusion peel away. You don't actually "become" a buddha, you simply cease, slowly, to be deluded. And being a buddha is not being some omnipotent spiritual superman, but becoming at last a true human being.

The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!

Whatever we have done with our lives makes us what we are when we die. And everything, absolutely everything, counts.

Tertön Sogyal, the Tibetan Mystic, said that he was not really impressed by someone who could turn the floor into the ceiling or fire into water. A real miracle, he said, was if someone could liberate just one negative emotion.

In meditation take care not to impose anything on the mind, or to tax it. When you meditate there should be no effort to control, and no attempt to be peaceful. Don't be overly solemn or feel that you are taking part in some special ritual; let go even of the idea that you are meditating. Let your body remain as it is, your breath as you find it, and remain in your natural condition of unchanging pure awareness.

I can't say it strongly enough; to integrate meditation in action is the whole ground and point and purpose of meditation

The masters say if you create an auspicious condition in your body and your environment then meditation and realization will automatically arise.