The teacher is transmitting pure awareness and consciousness.

We have the possibility of being far removed from what we are, of beginning to taste it and feel it. That is direct knowledge. That is truth. Anything else is mere words.

You cannot be born and you cannot die. You will exist in a universe that goes on forever. That is the ultimate horror from the Zen point of view. You could be unhappy forever.

I am the happiest person I've ever met. This is what Buddhist Yoga and a healthy dose of reading the Declaration of the Independence, The Constitution and the Federalist Papers and anything else I could get my hands on has given me.

The mystical kundalini goes the other direction. It starts at the base of the spine, at the root chakra and goes up.

Our sense of being worthwhile, our sense of being good, our sense of being anything must go - Final clearance sale.

Existence is the awareness of awareness.