Selfless-giving burns away the layers of the onion. Purity and humility keep meditation and selfless-giving clear. Love radiates through the entire practice because we do all of it only for love.

The knowledge of reincarnation assures us that life is worth living. Life is not a one-shot deal. It is forever.

There are seven primary centers, junctions, within the subtle physical body. These are called the seven chakras.

The universe is a giant perceptual matrix. It perceives itself through its substance

Real wisdom does not occur here in this physical universe. Real wisdom is something that you have to move into the planes of the highest light to experience.

In the West when you talk about yin and yang, people normally think of yin and yang as something that's linear. But in the east we tend to think of yin and yang as circles. They're two circles that actually can lie on top of each other, yet they remain separate.

In Zen we do everything perfectly. We feel that our outer actions are a reflection of our inner state. We call it mindfulness.