"The attainment of transcendent insight is the real object of the training advocated in the traditional Oral Teachings…"

"Orthodox Buddhism strictly forbids religious rites, and the learned lamas acknowledge that they cannot bestow spiritu…"

"Gradually hostile forces seemed to gather around me. I seemed to be obsessed by invisible beings who incited me to le…"

"I, one day, asked him: What is the Supreme Deliverance? He answered: It is the absence of all views and all imaginati…"

"Nine hundred feet below my cave rhododendrons blossomed. I climbed barren mountain-tops. Long tramps led me to desola…"

"Sadly, almost with terror, I often looked at the threadlike path which I saw, lower down, winding in the valleys and …"

"I go to Korea. Panya-an; the "monastery of wisdom" concealed in the heart of the forest opens its door to me. When I …"

"Silence was not compulsory as it is amongst the Trappist, but the monks seldom spoke. They did not feel the need of t…"

"There are a larger number than one would suppose who, when raising a small lamp in the gesture of an offering before …"

"The great majority of readers and hearers are the same all over the world. I have no doubt that the people of your co…"