'What is then truly transformative? is it merely a matter of changing one's clothes or hairstyle? Or joining up with some group that hopes its message will change the world? Could it simply be a matter of receiving the ultimate mantra or initiation? Learning to perform the proper rite or ritual? Finding out how to meditate? Doing yoga, praying, breathing, chanting, having cosmic sex, going to the Himalayas, Jerusalem, Mecca, Machu Picchu, Mount Kailish, Mount Shasta; or meeting the right Guru? I don't think so. Or is it not most transformative, most earth shaking, to pierce the veils of self-deception and illusion and crack the egg shell of ignorance, to most intimately encouter Oneself? Through honest Self-enquiry and no holds barred meditative introspection over a sustained period of time, one can take apart and deconstruct the hut that ego built, thus entering the mansion of authentic being'.

Lama Surya Das