If you are able to stop feeling sorry for yourself, and to contribute to the betterment of this world and of those around us, you will experience a high that is beyond my ability to express.

Focus your attention around the naval area, feel that spot. Visualize it. Do whatever it takes. When thoughts come in and out of your mind, pay no attention. You just stay right on that spot!

The things you see are real, but they are not a complete seeing - Samsara.

The Zen master walks in his garden, alone. There is no traffic there. There is no shopping there. There are only the flowers.

Tantric Zen is more suited for this age that we live in. It give you rules, but in a gentle way. It's not as demanding.

The pathway to enlightenment is beautiful. There are a lot of wonderful things that happen along the way. Win or lose, you just keep going, and it happens eventually.

Every moment gives birth to the next moment and influences it. Getting out of that chain of perpetual being is getting off the wheel of birth and death. That is enlightenment.