From the Far Eastern perspective, 29 is considered a very special age.

Illusions are shadows moving endlessly across the ground. The shadows are quite real but they're shadows. They have very little substance.

Winning is based to a certain extent upon personal power. If you have enough personal power you tend to win. If you don't, you tend to lose.

Focus on the heart center and feel love. There is a flower there, but it's like a rose folded up. As you meditate, feel that the flower is opening. Each time you open a set of petals you're going deeper into eternal awareness.

In meditation, when your mind becomes perfectly still and calm, you will experience the golden light of eternity.

The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and suffering.

Tantric Zen is the awareness of the infinitude of all things. To gain that awareness, to be it, is enlightenment.