The highest authority is one's own experience of truth.

You see, the only way to examine whether one has been craving or just wanting something naturally, is that, when you miss it—when you don't get it—what happens? If you don't get something, and you become miserable, that means you were craving. It was more a mental desire than a need for the body. And because the mental desire is not fulfilled, you get upset. So let it not result in misery; then there is no craving. For example, you want something, and you try to get it. If you don't get it, you smile. You did your best. Alright, let me try again. But why lose the balance of the mind? Why become miserable?

What does it mean to play the game of sensations? It means that one meditates with the aim to get rid of unpleasant sensations and to obtain pleasant ones. Whenever there are gross unpleasant sensations, one feels disappointed and one reacts with aversion to these sensations. Whenever one gets a flow of subtle sensations throughout the body, one is overjoyed and reacts with craving towards these sensations. This is what we do in daily life: we become happy when we like something and become agitated when we don’t like something. We are reinforcing the same pattern of craving and aversion, this time towards the sensations.

Any meditation which works with the body sensations and teaches us to remain equanimous with the body sensations is a meditation of liberation.

Truth is God. Realize the truth within you, and you will realize God. For me, truth is God, the law of nature is God, Dhamma is God, and everything is evolving because of Dhamma, because of this law of nature. If you understand this, and live according to the law of Dhamma, you live a good life. Whether you believe in a supernatural God or not, makes no difference.

If by 'atheist' you mean one who does not believe in God, then no, I am not. For me, God is not an imaginary person. For me, truth is God. The ultimate truth is ultimate God.

Everything in the Universe is vibrating. This is no theory, it is a fact. The entire Universe is nothing but vibrations. The good vibrations make us happy, the unwholesome vibrations cause misery. Vipassana will help you come out of effect of bad vibrations- the vibrations caused by a mind full of craving and aversion. When the mind is perfectly balanced, the vibrations become good. And these good or bad vibrations you generate start influencing the atmosphere all around you. Vipassana helps you generate vibrations of purity, compassion and goodwill - beneficial for yourself and all others.

Metta or Metta Bhavana is the technique of generating vibrations of goodwill and compassion that a Vipassana student is first taught on the 10th day of a 10-day Vipassana course. Later, at the end of every Vipassana course, or a 1-hour sitting, a meditator is asked to practice metta, to share the merits gained with all beings. Metta vibrations are tangible vibrations whose beneficial power increases as the purity of the mind increases.