I studied with a number of different teachers. But really, I've never studied with teachers. To be honest, the only thing that's ever interested me in life is eternity. Nothing else makes any sense to me.

Some of the most exalted states of consciousness I experienced were in bed with someone, alone, or with my spiritual teacher. There was never a difference for me.

You can summon up power from past lives and bring them into this life. That can give you a boost into the next state of mind or further up.

It is a tremendous waste of energy to try to block anyone else. That same energy could be applied to furthering your own success.

The Zen Master was constantly attempting to break up concepts that people had about what it was like to be a spiritual teacher. We have a traditional image. Each Zen master was a complete character.

People in the West sometimes have these marvelous visions of India and Tibet. They assume that there are all these sadhus walking around and everybody is breathing enlightenment. Forget it. Don't look at it through rose-colored glasses.

The disembodied being stays in the same state of mind that it was in when it was embodied, unless it does something to change that while it is out of the body.