Overcoming fear is a critical factor for anyone who wishes to be really happy, or anyone who wishes to become enlightened

A surfer is poised on a wave on his board, cutting quickly to the left. He'll always be there, in that moment. He's never left it. He had no birth, he didn't go to school, he didn't purchase the board; none of those things ever were.

Be honest! You are not going to want to admit energy loss. Someone is making it hard for you to look.

From the Far Eastern perspective, 29 is considered a very special age.

Everyone is afraid of enlightenment, knowledge, completion. People are afraid of being exposed.

Stopping thought also involves shifting your values. Thought is stimulated by ideas that we have about life and the world.

Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it.