I learned about the benefits and the vast limitations of such types of exploration, as did all my generation.

Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with your spirit, not just with your body.

In the West the wise are usually thought of as leaders. In the East, the wise are very often though of as followers.

You must control your anger and jealousy and possessive nature or, as you become more powerful and your will increases in strength, you will injure others.

Within you there are thousands of rings of luminosity, bands, and each one is a universe of perception. In the average person's lifetime, they might just open up two or three, maybe four of those bands.

Your life can be horrible or it can be incredibly beautiful. It can be boring or exciting. It's seldom in between. Your active use of will determines what will happen to you in this and other lives.

In tantra we have complete faith in the winds of eternity. The key to tantra yoga is to feel that you are not the doer, that you cannot possibly act. All you have to do in life is to accept.