In meditation what you are trying to do is simply get rid of your own junk. You are trying to move all the confusion out of your mind, all the heaviness, all the emotional upsets, all the impressions that you have picked up since your last meditation.

Life is an endless matrix of existence. And as you experience it in that pure form, that's what we call enlightenment.

You don't force change; you just open yourself to its possibilities and let it work through you.

The ashram is where everyone lives in the same building or on the same grounds. You feel that it's selfish for you to devote your life to one person. You don't just love the one, you love the many also.

There comes a time in life when you just buckle down and have a good time with what you're doing. It doesn't matter much what you're doing. What matters is how you do it.

Tantra is the left-handing path, meaning it is the road less taken.

In Zen we do everything perfectly. We feel that our outer actions are a reflection of our inner state. We call it mindfulness.