“If you need to get freedom from this karmic bondage, the mental defilements and the karmic force, you have to see the things as they are. You have to see the selflessness, or the interdependent nature of all. It might be the ultimate truth or it might be the relative truth, all of these exist through interdependent nature, through interrelatedness.”
“Human beings at this time believe that we are in the age of a hundred years of lifespan, and Indian culture says these hundred years should be divided into four ashramas, four stages. The first twenty-five years is for learning and education. The second twenty-five years of human life is for leading a household and earning livelihood. The third stage is to guide one’s own children and to help the next generation to stabilise or establish and the last stage is for spiritual practice or sanyas ashram.”
