Compassion and empathy are not the same as feeling sorry for oneself. They are emotions that extend our perceptual ranges.

You think you are somebody and that is where the problem begins. You're really not somebody, you're everybody. You objectify yourself into thinking that you are a particular state of being.

People are kept in line in society because they fear punishment. The assumption that underlies this mentality is that a human being will follow their desires without mitigation.

Things don't make you unhappy. People don't make you unhappy. You make yourself unhappy. Because you are in the cycle. You're stuck. You're stuck in time.

I only work with professionals. I don't mean at seminars, but in my business.

Learn to meditate, practice and don't get frustrated. It will take you years to learn to meditate perfectly. Every time you try, you are growing. It's not as if you have to meditate perfectly to make progress.

It is necessary to have a very liberal and simultaneously very conservative mentality to practice Tantric Zen.