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Prophecy is rash, but it may be that the publication of D.T. Suzuki's first Essays in Zen Buddhism in 1927 will seem to future generations as great an intellectual event as William of Moerbeke's Latin translations of Aristotle in the thirteenth century or Marsiglio Ficino's of Plato in the fifteenth.

Psychic perception is a much more efficient and accurate method of seeing and knowing reality.

Purity means lack of hatred, jealousy, fear, greed and lust - the absence of anything that can stain consciousness.

Purity is also developed in action. Purity is developed when we love.

Purity is essential for just your own peace of mind; otherwise, you'll go through this world like a mad person, howling and screaming and cursing, never satisfied, never happy.

Purity is something that can be consciously developed. Expect to have impure moments, thoughts, and ideas. One day they will go away, and then there will be happiness.

Pure and simple, balance is happiness.

Purity is developed through caring. You need to care about light and the matters of light, truth, religion and spirituality.

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

Purity is receptivity, the ability to sit and wait patiently, for as long as necessary, for the coming of the light.

Purity is something that comes from another world. It's a radiance that enters into this world of transformation and change.

Purity is the ability to see dharma in its manifold forms in any plane or loka.

Purity is very fragile when it takes physical manifestation. It is very, very strong in its original aspect.

Purity is light. Not just an ordinary light, but a transcendental light.

Put the mind in alignment with the ten thousand radiances of enlightenment and experience them in various gradations forever. That's the total purpose of a monk.

Put a smile on your face. Don't sit in the waiting room of life. Go do something, happily.

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

Real Buddhism is about meditation.

Real happiness is something most people never know. What we experience in deep meditation, that ecstasy is beyond what human beings call happiness

Real humility is something that no one else will see. No one will know about your humility, if it's real.

Reality does appear to exist, there does appear to be birth, youth, people appear to have children. But all of it's a dream. These are isolated moments that are only connected by perception. There is no separation.

Real meditation engenders humility and purity, always. Yet I don't really think it demands any kind of lifestyle.

Real winning and losing all takes place at the meditation table. This is where the battles are. Winning is stopping thought. Losing is sitting there and being subjected to all kinds of ridiculous thoughts

Really, whatever I was seeking and looking into in those days like creative arts, chant, the muse being in touch with the muse for poetry and writing and music. It's all part of the spirit and if we look particularly at Hinduism and Buddhism, the tantric stream of those traditions totally embraces all aspects of human life and life on this world.

Real wisdom does not occur here in this physical universe. Real wisdom is something that you have to move into the planes of the highest light to experience.

Reciprocity, a symbiotic relationship, is a relationship in which two people have worked out certain terms. I am using you in certain ways; you are using me in certain ways. That is a balanced relationship.

Redefine you. Oh God, life is so beautiful. Don't let it pass you by. Don't miss it. Don't miss it.

Relationships are a proving ground for love.

Relativity propped it up, at least gave it the illusion of being there…the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted.

Religion is either something we scorn because we are too rational or it's the realm of the fanatic who insists that their God and their religion is the only way and everyone else is dammed.

Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away.

Samadhi is the highest octave spiritual light. Not the best, but the highest octave.

Rise above the limited conditions of pleasure and pain, success and failure, happiness and sorrow, that all the countless unenlightened beings in creation are slaves to.

See your life as not just your life but as eternity. Be so completely integrated in the experience of perception that there's no sense of a perceiver but just the fluid moment of ecstasy that is reality unfolding itself to itself.

Say, for example, you develop the ability to make parking meters disappear. It's probably easier to put a quarter in it. That would be the wisdom on the subject.

Self-honesty is absolutely necessary in the practice of Buddhism.

Self-discovery is realistic. It's not built on ideas and philosophies. It's what works. Philosophies are nice if you like philosophies. But self-discovery is predicated on something that really brings you into enlightened states of mind.

Self-hate doesn't create enlightenment. It just causes you to not enjoy the current moment.

Self-realization is the last game on earth worth playing.

Self is the perception of perception. Beyond self there's no perception of perception.

Self-knowledge, I guess, is hard. But I think pain is harder, personally. I think to be hopeless is very hard. I think to die without hope or to live without hope is very hard.

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

Self-control is completely necessary for increasing and raising your attention level. One of the places you practice that is at work.

Sensations of peace, joy, and love will enter into you. They will be very subtle at first. Then they will grow stronger.

Sex is a highly personal matter, yet it seems to get more impersonal all the time. How do I feel about sex? I suppose it matters with whom.

Sex is life: The act of creation in pleasure, the loss of oneself in another, the coming together of opposites in a temporary union of yin and yang, that creates something other than either. What is life if not this?

Shakespeare said: "There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow." Everything happens perfectly.

Sexuality is the primary focus of our culture, and almost no one has come to resolve it.

Sex is like any other transaction, except that it is not like any other transaction.

Sex does drain a certain amount of your occult energy. But that really has nothing to do with enlightenment.