If one were blind, one can simply focus on a feeling.

If you abuse power, you will be burned and then you will learn...if you live.

It is not bad living in a monastery. I've done it many times in many lives. But I think you can do a better job outside the monastery, if you have the necessary component parts.

Change is continuous and the aggregate of the self is constantly shifting.

I can play the guitar, the dulcimer, the piano, and the drums. However, I am not a "performance quality" musician. Rather, I am a composer and a producer.

Meditation is the journey to happiness.

Eventually you're supposed to get so confounded by this whole thing that you just give up completely, and that's when it starts to work. Not give up the practice, but give up trying to figure it out.