The kundalini flows upward. It also flows downward in different ways. It is quite complex, actually.

Bodies come and go, ages come and go, yugas come and go, eternities come and go. Selves come and go.

Self-realization is not the awareness that this world is a dream, that's a part of self-realization.

There is no such thing as spiritual achievement; it is simply an awareness intrinsic to all of life.

Believe in yourself, step one. Believe in the order, step two. Believe in the teachings, step three.

Think of a star. A star burns its very substance to give light to others. You need to be like a star.

Teamwork - everything is one. You can connect with the emptiness of all things. All things are empty.

You could use a flower, a candle flame, anything you want that's suggestive of beauty and eternality.

Your life either takes your energy or gives you energy. Set up your life so that it gives you energy.

If you really have humility when you love, there is only one thought: "What can I do for my beloved?"

Accept that you are that - you are the matchless, eternal reality. That's true seeing, true humility.

The next best thing is to work with those who are not quite there yet to bring them up to that level.

A number of people who are interested in computers in this lifetime programmed computers in Atlantis.

Nirvana and enlightenment exist just on the other side of your sensory perceptions and your thoughts.

Real spirituality and love is always manifest. It always goes to those who are with us and around us.

It is fun to be outside; it's good to move your body and there is just a joy in sports and athletics.

Each of the ten thousand states of mind presents you with a different view of essence and experience.

Be honest! You are not going to want to admit energy loss. Someone is making it hard for you to look.

The secret to enlightenment is kindness and selfless giving. Without that, it's just words, isn't it?

When you focus on a chakra, it's very easy to bring subtle physical energies into your consciousness.

Zen is the path that focuses the most upon meditation. It is almost exclusively a path of meditation.

Power is what is required to change the universe - to change yourself into what you might like to be.

You don't always have to be the winner, have everybody notice you. It's fun to dance alone sometimes.

If you meditate you will change in ways that I cannot understand. But that is neither here nor there.

We go to the cinema we see images projected on the screen - but they're not real, they're only images.

Will is developed in meditation. It is refined. It is within you, but you don't know how to get to it.

Buddha indicated that the self, that part of you that incarnates from lifetime to lifetime was causal.

You have to come to the world of enlightenment with open hands, not clinched fists, without an agenda.

After two or three days, the door will close and you will not be able to make those changes as easily.

Search this world and find that being who you feel has the greatest light and become their apprentice.

The end of this world occurs when you move from one world into another, from one reality into another.

Meditate. Look at the candle flame - or whatever object you have chosen to gaze upon - with intensity.

When you are afraid of someone, they can gain power over you, meaning they can drop your energy level.

The danger in mysticism is that you push yourself too far into the nagual too soon. This is obsession.

Nirvana's not like anything you've ever known or experienced because it can't be known or experienced.

Who has that perfect faith and trust? Only such a person with that faith and trust can be enlightened.

Reading books about enlightenment does not make you enlightened at all. You have to meditate yourself.

The secret of love is acceptance, acceptance of our finite self, of our life, our birth ... our death.

Tantric Zen, and the people who practice it, of course, make some people feel extremely uncomfortable.

This is a dark age. That's not news. It's a dark time when we have to be particularly aware of danger.

Success is not success in an individual endeavor. Success is simply to practice the dharma impeccably.

The nagual is the superconscious. It's nirvana. It's the unknown that cannot be explained or reasoned.

Death is a doorway. It is a very small, thin doorway and only a portion of our being can walk through.

Through the practice of meditation and Buddhism, as you experience light, it immediately delights you.

A war is an incarnation. A battle is a day of your life. So we do one day at a time in self-discovery.

As a student of enlightenment your attitude should not be to become enlightened. It should be to learn.

Smile sometimes when things aren't going well, and maybe realize when they aren't going well, they are.

Enlightenment simply means that you've run out of questions, and that the answers don't matter anymore.

Love is beginningless and endless ecstasy. It is an unfathomable mystery. It is the study of our lives.

Purity is innocence, the innocence of lack of self. Desire is innocent unless it's connected with self.

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