The way to meditate is by not trying to be too good at it too quickly. This is essential, because otherwise you won't have any fun with it.

If we try and direct our lives with only our limited rationalistic thoughts and our sense perceptions, then our actions and our activities will not be prefect.

With the practice of meditation you can move into other states of mind, sort of ungluing the glue that binds you to a particular perceptual mode, a way of seeing life which is an illusory one.

If you are trying to aid people in the process of self-discovery, what you have to do is confound them with so many concepts that are contradictory, yet each make complete sense in its own right.

If you want to become enlightened, you've got to get all the bullshit out of your life. You have to clear up your mind completely.

In the West when you talk about yin and yang, people normally think of yin and yang as something that's linear. But in the east we tend to think of yin and yang as circles. They're two circles that actually can lie on top of each other, yet they remain separate.

Mysteries are not riddles. Mysteries are places to go with your mind. You go into mysteries.