Close your eyes and simply "feel" the spot your finger is touching. Then, after a couple of minutes, let your hands down. Continue to hold your attention on the spot just as you did when your finger was there.

The spirit of the West, of America, is different than the East. The cultural conditioning is very different. It seems to be harder for people to work in teams, more difficult for people here to live in harmony, in a monastery.

Naturally, the Zen Master Rama philosophy is to have a high state of awareness and material success.

People who want to go to power places all of the time and want to be around powerful people, they don't last long in the study.

One person's cult is another person's spiritual organization.

Go through the things that life gives you to go through, happily. You have to loosen the grip of time, gradually.

Life is endless reality. There is reality after reality, spinning on endlessly into the cosmos, billions and billions of manifest universes. Underlying all of this is the unmanifest, the absolute reality.