Without innocence, nothing can further, as they say in the I Ching.

I don't think of myself as a guru but as a teacher. If one means 'guru' in the original sense a 'dispeller of darkness' then that certainly is my purpose.

The Buddha gave his first talks, and three or four ascetics became his first disciples. They recognized his enlightenment.

Let's say you dissolve and become infinite light. There is this sense of being light even though the mind is not thinking it, one feels it, which indicates that one is still there - at least half of one.

Real samadhi is off the game board, friends. It is not something you are even aware of.

Your ego interferes, your sense of self. When you let go of the mind, the Frisbee will take its own path.

Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these experiences don't tend to last.