It’s not what you do – it’s the intensity of your feeling that determines how far you go in the spiritual life.
You must learn to meditate and stop your thoughts. You must overcome all egotism and selfishness by serving others. You must cleanse your mind so that enlightenment will find a happy place to reside there.
You may have thousands of lives to go between now and before you’re a real hard-core seeker of enlightenment, hardcore meaning you just love it.
When you could be sloppy, you’re not. When you could be indulgent, you’re not. When you could be sad, you laugh instead. If you fall down, you pick yourself up again and again and again.
Self-honesty is not putting yourself down or feeling sorry for yourself. Self-honesty is looking at things as they are and then being compelled to make changes.
You could go through incarnations forever and never become enlightened, unless of course you do something about it.
In Buddhism what we seek to do is change ourselves into someone who’s beautiful to be.
If you’re studying Buddhism you never really have enough time because you’re going to die.
Only alone can you go into eternity. Only alone can you feel the transcendental light. It is not a shared experience because if it is shared, you are down in duality.
You can’t teach someone to be enlightened. It’s something you have to go and do. You can’t teach someone to meditate well. It’s something you have to go and do.
Eventually light prevails, you just have to be patient. So practice Buddhism, learn to be enlightened, put a smile on your face, go find a great teacher, meditate, and stay funny.
Compassion allows us to accept everything. That’s why there’s always a tear in the eye of the Buddha that no one sees, for the pain and suffering of others.
Help the world in any way that you want to. I have found that the more light you give and spread, the more you will evolve.
The secret teaching was the bodhisattva ideal, to live for others, for the welfare of all beings. That’s enlightenment, not some flashy state of luminosity.
You have to refine your being. You have to go through all of the stages and steps of erasing yourself through service to others with purity, humility, integrity.
You only become funny when you have a complete reverence for life.
Compassion and empathy are not the same as feeling sorry for oneself. They are emotions that extend our perceptual ranges.
Energy is gained by giving energy. When we give energy, we gain energy. This is different than having someone manipulate you and take your energy.
The essence of the teachings is to lose self importance and to care more for the welfare of others and the magical world around us, than we do for ourselves and our own self images.
One of the traditional Tantric methods of mediation is to imagine that you are taking on the suffering of all beings.