It is better to agree with a "wrong" idea than to press a "right" idea on other people.

When I go visit my brother monks in Japan and sit down with other Zen Masters, they look at my crazy clothes and my strange expression, but they feel the power that emanates from my dedication to the practice. So they are comfortable with me, yet they're very uncomfortable.

The kundalini rises and the kundalini is hot, it's a hot energy. Sometimes you feel it cascading up your spine, and it's kind of searing or it's tingling, it almost feels sexual.

Karma doesn't mean that everything works out justly.

We've done this before in other worlds, in other lives. It is our strength, law, medicine, entertainment, and computers, the networking of energy. All of these are arts.

We don't really remember where we came from, and we're not too sure about where we go to, if we are, after this thing we call life.

The awareness of place, space, or condition is not liberation. You can't say what it is, but you can sure say what it isn't.