Yoga means we go a step further back. In yoga we go to the cause. The cause of pain is not the world. The cause of pain is us.

I don't think of myself as a guru but as a teacher. If one means 'guru' in the original sense a 'dispeller of darkness' then that certainly is my purpose.

If you attain liberation do not feel that it matters or it is important. You had nothing to do with it. If you are bound by ignorance do not feel bad. You had nothing to do with it.

It is in Zen practice that you gain power, balance and wisdom. The battles that you fight are within your own mind. That is where the real victories and defeats are.

Meditation is a practice of detaching and then stopping ourselves from thinking; our thoughts are interruptions in the flow of awareness. Consciousness, in its highest aspect, is perfect and formless.

If you suspect someone is draining you, generally you should not confront them, but be nice, relax them, and then see what they are doing.

The more lives you have, the harder it is to change, yet the stronger you are. It's a kind of funny dichotomy.