Most people are terribly afraid of their own sexuality, and one has to respect another person's sadhana, another person's path.

If you are truly wise, you love life very deeply. You love the things in your life, transient though they may be.

The aura of billions of people coats all experiences like a thick cloud of smog. Just to live on the earth is to live in that smog.

Have the right attitude in advanced practice. Feel that you are always a beginner in Zen. They refer to it as "beginners mind". I feel I am a beginner, always; because it's true.

As the kundalini energy increases, as the energy of the psyche becomes more pronounced, which it does as thought becomes eclipsed by silence, all the variant mind states burn away.

You have been programmed, brainwashed to see life in very specific forms. Life is endless and we are a body of perception. We are an awareness that is endless. The universe is only perception.

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