“The Buddha encouraged people to "know for yourselves that certain things are unwholesome and wrong. And when you do, then give them up. And when you know for yourselves that certain things are whol...”

“The buddha-dharma does not invite us to dabble in abstract notions. Rather, the task it presents us with is to attend to what we actually experience, right in this moment. You don't have to look "o...”

“The buddha-dharma is about directly seeing Truth, prior to forming any ideas about it. It is about responding to each particular situation as it comes , not according to some program of dos and ...”

“[T]here is really nothing 'out there' to get because, already, within this moment, everything is whole and complete.”

“The impossibility of arriving at Truth by giving up your own authority and following the lights of others. Such a path will only lead to an opinion.”

“[I]mpermanence [is] the very thing that makes [life] vibrant, wonderful, and alive.”

“Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.”

“Pride be damned, we do what must be done to survive.”

“I'd love to do comedy. And I think I have a pretty good sense of comic thing, so I'd really like to try that.”