When you meditate you will be able to get in touch with that part of yourself which knows what it wants, as opposed to the levels and layers of conditioning in your mind.

As you go into the light, you will gain a more profound happiness. That happiness will free you from the desire-aversion cycle.

I dive all over the world: Fiji, Australia, the Caribbean, Hawaii, and many other places.

I don't think you see your minds. I think you see your thoughts; you see your desires; you see your relatives, friends, lovers, enemies. I don't think you see your mind. You think of the mind as the clutter.

Practicing zazen and mindfulness constantly and correctly, over a period of time, can bring strength and clarity to your finite mind and eventually give you access to your infinite mind.

Most people exist in very clouded states of mind. It's sort of like when you're underwater in a big swimming pool and you open your eyes, and you can't see very far and everything is distorted.

Gradually, you were given a description of the world, a way of seeing, which is largely sexual.