Hate is the last refuge of the ignorant. Love is the medicine. Compassion is the gift of the awakened ones.
We are cognizant of time, the sense that there is mutability. Time is change. It's the separation of eternity from itself. When eternity is separated from itself, we see it appear in different forms. Time is not a movement in space. Space is a movement in time.
Don't care what anybody says about enlightenment, except the enlightened and those who seek it.
The big problem with power, of course, is obsession. Once you get some of it and feel it, it dominates your whole life and it's all you can think about. That doesn't have to happen.
Just because it doesn't work out for you, doesn't mean that it's not wonderful for someone else.
Very often, in order to bring about stillness we have to be tirelessly active in the outer world. You might suppose this would agitate the mind. It will not, if it is the dharma.
Know that life, which does everything perfectly, is now moving you in a new direction. The chess piece of your existence is being moved to a new square on the board of life.
If the tonal predominates, which we see now more in the world, there's no mystery - understanding of consciousness or awareness.
In meditation, we are going back into the light. All our pain will be taken away, our frustration.
It is the quick path. We turn everything inside out and upside down - which is when it gets straightened out very neatly and in an orderly fashion.
Happiness is warm puppy. In other words, happiness is the things around you. Just to see that puppy is to be happy. You don't have to do anything; you don't have to add anything.
How can you be happy in a world like this? You have got to be crazy to even attempt something like that.
Tantric Buddhism means that we become mature adults and we learn the reality of chaos theory.
There's degradation of the environment. But the real issue is the degradation of one's inner environment.
Tantric Zen is the exploration of everything, since everything is a part of enlightenment.
Tantric Zen leads to illumination and fun right here and now, which is why I like it.
I think there's some pretty amazing language in the Bible. The thing that's always been interesting to me about religion is that compared to the more modern spirituality, the West Coast pseudo-Buddhist thing that people go for these days, actual Buddhism and Islam have been looking at these philosophical questions, at really hard questions, for a long time. There's a lot of stuff that philosophy doesn't talk about, and in the secular world, a lot of times, people don't talk about these ideas, and that was always really interesting for me.
We are miracles. So don't deny yourself the miracle of happiness.
If suddenly you get depressed, it doesn't have to throw you. You can push those emotions aside. You can cultivate happy emotions or become emotionless when you need to be very sensitive.
There are those who want to revolutionize the world with meditation. I really don't think that is necessary. The world is already revolutionized.