Stop trying to do things that will make you happy. Happiness is a state of mind; because otherwise, you are a slave to circumstance.

If you abuse power, you will be burned and then you will learn...if you live.

The universe is made up of an endless ocean of life itself. It is an endless ocean of itself. And for a time it binds itself together in particularized forms. Those forms have perception and they perceive themselves as being separate.

In Tantric Buddhism, we believe that Samsara is Nirvana. That is to say that everything in the universe is part of us. And we also are part of everything in the universe.

We feel crowded by other people; we feel crowded by social rules; we feel crowded by ourselves, mainly.

Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with your spirit, not just with your body.

It was their intention to start twelve new civilizations similar to Atlantis in these locations.