If the Zen master sees that it will cause a person to progress, he will ask that person to do a task. The task is charged with power if it's performed properly. It's a koan between yourself and the Zen Master.

When I play sports, when I dance, when I teach mysticism, I cannot explain, even to myself, how I do what I do.

There are lots of people who work out and aren't at all powerful in terms of their mind or their spirits.

In meditation, we are going back into the light. All our pain will be taken away, our frustration.

Life is forever. Death is only a temporary abridgment. It is just a state of transition where you will move from one world into another. You will move from the physical to the causal, from matter into pure energy.

Who wants to be stuck in being religious and being spiritual either? That's not freedom. You've just exchanged handcuffs for leg irons - which doesn't mean that you should avoid enlightenment.

I was very immersed in the world. I'm very worldly. I love world. I was immersed in my career, in school, in teaching.