The idea of the walls of monastery was to keep everybody else out because you wanted to develop a certain type of life. Most people in the world had different ideas on the subject.

People are taught to fear god. They are taught to fear everything. It has become such a natural state that no one questions it.

Nature is the endless reflective pattern of existence in eternity. As I sit here watching the leaves and watching their patterns, I'm reminded of so many things I've seen in other planes and in other worlds.

Artificial Intelligence is creating a mind, hopefully as pure a mind as possible, for a computer.

Zen students see themselves as athletes. Their competitive sport is enlightenment; only with enlightenment do we compete.

Interestingly enough, Aurthur C. Clarke once autographed a copy of his book "Rendezvous with Rama" for me.

Long before the advent of what scientists and scholars consider to be the beginning of human civilization, there was an age undreamed of ... the age of Atlantis.