Celibacy doesn't make you enlightened, otherwise every nun or priest in Buddhism or Christianity would be enlightened. People who don't date and can't get any action would be enlightened.

Reincarnation is a dance. It is a movement of life to the rhythm of the universe. Spirit and matter join together as one dancing partner. They dance and it goes on forever.

They don't understand the multi-life sequences. Anything they can't see in a laboratory, they think is nonsense.

The Zen Master was constantly attempting to break up concepts that people had about what it was like to be a spiritual teacher. We have a traditional image. Each Zen master was a complete character.

You start meditation as an average human being who is filled with vagueness and not much purpose or definition, who is controlled by their desires, your mind spins all over the place, your senses spin all over the place, out of control.

There is a big difference between the lower samadhis and the upper samadhis, like the difference between the Sierras and the Himalayas.

Why waste your time being around people who drag you down? You don't live forever, at least in this life.