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Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.

I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.

Just studying Buddhism, then meditating and going to Buddhist monasteries, talking to Buddhist monks, combined with the Thai people themselves, changed the way I look at the world.

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

When I first was exposed to Buddhism in the mid-1960s, I said it was so practical and utterly pragmatic. That's what attracted me to Buddhism.

I think my Buddhist practice has a profound influence on my life and encompasses my creative projects.

I'd gotten away from my Buddhism. And I quit meditating.

My split with the university was over the fact that I had become involved with helping Tibetans in India.

My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.

I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.