In poetry, and in my study in graduate school, I was drawn to a particular poet, Theodore Roethke. I did a dissertation on "The Evolution of Matter and Spirit in the Poetry of Theodore Roethke" for my Ph.D.

After the meditation session you have to be a little bit careful. If you start to think a lot of thoughts and become very active, you can prevent some of the meditative awareness from coming into your mind.

To choose the light or to choose other things is always the question.

The experiences you'll have, the people you'll love, the jobs, the joys, the sorrows, the way you'll die. It is all predestined, unless you will a change.

Nirvana is the pure and perfect schness of thatness of being.

Tantric Zen is more suited for this age that we live in. It give you rules, but in a gentle way. It's not as demanding.

Who has that perfect faith and trust? Only such a person with that faith and trust can be enlightened.