When you can successfully stop thought for longer periods of time, you do move into other worlds. This can also happen in the very beginning, if a person meditates with someone who is very advanced.

Life is perception. We perceive through different parts of the body of the universe.

In Tantric Zen, career, relationships, the type of insurance you have - all things are part of your evolution, your awareness, your experience of the suchness of existence.

The shushumna is a tube. It is an astral tube, like a reed. It runs from the base of the spine to between the eyebrows and a little bit above.

At the end of meditation period we always bow and we touch our head to the floor and say "Buddha's name be praised."

In the West the wise are usually thought of as leaders. In the East, the wise are very often though of as followers.

People get together and go to the movies or on hikes, but everyone maintains their own independent domicile.