The good news is that you don't have to stop thoughts completely to meditate. It takes a long time to stop thought impeccably. What you need is to detach yourself from thought.

To get involved with some ridiculous battle of power with someone else will use up your energy.

While I enjoy teaching people on the basic and intermediate levels to work them up to advanced levels, my real talent is for the advanced students. You could say that I'm like a ninth-degree black belt in martial arts.

The primary quality that Lao Tzu seems to emobdy is humility, which is the image of water - seeking the common level of existence.

In Zen, and in other forms of self discovery, we do have a transference that occurs where psychically, information, blocks of attention, are transferred to the student.

Stop trying to do things that will make you happy. Happiness is a state of mind; because otherwise, you are a slave to circumstance.

If we get above the individualized soul's journey, you will see that we are all one. We are all one light. In that sense, we are all enlightened.