There is really only one Zen Master ... and that's yourself.

The condition of humankind is not good, in the sense that the illusory prisons we create for ourselves through our desires and our frustrations are unhappy.

When you allow desire, anger and frustration to dominate you, you are losing power.

You're standing in a closet, and you've been in it so long that you can't remember that there's anything else, that there's a huge house with lots of rooms and there are lands outside the house and planets and universes and creations

You can detach your attention from yourself and go anywhere. You can wander the universe. Big deal!

There is the flash in the pan, the sudden success. But continued success is dependent upon tremendous attention to detail.

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.