I have been sought out by a number of people who would have felt uncomfortable coming to a large public meditation. They don't want people to come up and ask for autographs.

The reason one enters into lower mental states is because you don't have the power or chi flowing through you.

One should never become devoted to a teacher, any more than one should become devoted to a statue of a god. There is only one thing to be devoted to, and that is your mind.

There is mental conditioning in your mind put in there during this life by your parents, teachers, the society. You've been told what is and what is not, what is right and what is wrong. This has to be pushed aside.

In advanced meditation you become light. You transcend self, ego, time, space, and dimensionality.

Sitting around idly contemplating doesn't produce much. In work you can discipline your attention, forget about your misery.

You are down in the valley and the valley is filled with smog. You can't see too well. When we meditate, we are going beyond the smog to the top of the mountain.