By going out of your mind, you come to your senses

The real Zen of the old Chinese masters was wu-shih, or "no fuss."

LSD is simply an exploratory instrument like a microscope or telescope, except this one is inside of you instead of outside of you.

If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

There is an ineffable mystery that underlies ourselves and the world. It is the darkness from which the light shines. When you recognize the integrity of the universe and that death is as certain as birth, then you can relax and accept that this is the way it is. There is nothing else to do.

The individual may be understood as one particular focal point at which the whole universe expresses itself - as an incarnation of the self, or of the Godhead, or whatever one may choose to call it.