When your Japanese lifetime is coming out, drink all the sake you want. Have a little bash.

The top of the band would be happiness, contentment and peace of mind.

Spiritual balance is the principle that allows the mind to be still. You cannot expect the world to settle down, everything to work out, in order for you to be happy. You have to get control of your mind.

Most people are terribly afraid of their own sexuality, and one has to respect another person's sadhana, another person's path.

Meditation is a refocusing on symbols. It's not emptiness. We are using symbols, doorways to step from one world to another, from darkness into light, from death to immortality.

Nothing is distinct and separate.

It's like looking at the sun, that's how infinity is. You can't look at it for too long or you dissolve. The bands of your attention break. But if you look at it in specific ways, you can become something or someone much more conscious.