The Network of Enlightenment watches over a world and guides it, tenderly. Not interfering in its natural course of evolution is our way.

The Anza Borrego Desert is a place of power, where different planes and realities intersect. It is easier to see and enter into other planes here.

A well known Los Angeles newspaper referred to a small group of gentlemen who live up on a mountain and practice Zen as 'the Zen cult'. The cult phenomenon is definitely journalistically 'in'.

There are thousands of mantras. Everyone has favorites. I prefer three - Aum, Sring, and Kring.

People enter states of consciousness where they think they've become enlightened. The best thing to do, if you've gone through one of those phases, is to be sensible, laugh at yourself for how foolish you were.

The primary quality that Lao Tzu seems to emobdy is humility, which is the image of water - seeking the common level of existence.

The inner cry is a very good way to meditate. As you're sitting there in meditation, just cry inwardly to God, to that source, to your spiritual teacher or to a particular god or goddess.