Meditation is the freeing of ourselves from all mental states and concepts of self.

Happiness comes from living in the moment, this moment, now, right here. If you are in obscure states of mind, you won't see what this moment is. You won't realize its beauty.

The mystical kundalini goes the other direction. It starts at the base of the spine, at the root chakra and goes up.

Find a teacher of Tantric Zen and study with them because it is transference of awareness, a sharing of the perception of the beauty of life.

Discrimination means keeping the negative and unhappy thoughts away and allowing the pretty thoughts to come inside you.

When you think an angry thought about someone, it's like hitting them.

"Don't talk about enlightenment," Buddha would say. He was saying don't talk about the nagual. He'd talk about how to get to it.