In Tantric Zen you can be humorous and make fun of anything or you can be very serious.

Prana is an element of energy. Energy is a manifestation of a certain principle which in Indian cosmology they call shakti, or spiritual power. Don't worry about the words too much.

You can be alone too in the city streets, among the crowds. We are all alone.

Self-realization is not the awareness that this world is a dream, that's a part of self-realization.

Never expect anything from a particular meditation. Once you have gotten started, different methods get you into the stream, let the meditation take you wherever it would like to.

Karma exists within causality. It is three-dimensional. Free will exists outside of causality; it is not bound by karma.

I have several Scottish Terriers. I find them to be the most wonderful dogs.