There's a place where everything comes together and where it's all the same. That state of mind, in which all things are the same, is the state of mind of Tantric Zen.

A person who is insane has no sense of their place; they've lost that ability, which our friend don Juan describes as the tonal.

Perfection is not a final state. It is a state of mind. There are ten thousand states of mind.

A categorization implies a hierarchical way of seeing things. Life is really relational, not hierarchical. Hierarchical is a human way of looking at things. Relational is much more the way things are. Everything is connected.

Now, tantra is a little bit different than other forms of Buddhism because in tantra what we do is we use the sensorial worlds as access points or pathways to ineffability.

Life should be continually brighter. We are continually seeking our own innocence. We want to recapture it for eternity. It's in there, but we lose touch with it.

Most people are terribly afraid of their own sexuality, and one has to respect another person's sadhana, another person's path.