The Zen Master was constantly attempting to break up concepts that people had about what it was like to be a spiritual teacher. We have a traditional image. Each Zen master was a complete character.

In my very early childhood, when I was only 3 or 4 or 5, I would enter for many hours into meditative states in which the world would become light and energy and I would transcend the boundaries of the senses.

While it is possible to create all your own energy, most people feed off the energy of others. If you could see on multiple planes of attention you would be astonished!

As you gain more discipline over your body, you will find that a corollary discipline will develop in the mind because the two really go together.

All of the energy of existence is going to flow through you. You will be in thousands of planes of consciousness at once or beyond in nirvana or having a sandwich with a friend.

Beyond this world there are myriad worlds, thousands of inter-dimensional planes with different types of beings going through other cycles of existence. Beyond all beings is something that is eternal.

The causal body is the most ancient and timeless part of a person. It has the capacity to know and do things that the physical mind and body cannot.