Stopping thought also involves shifting your values. Thought is stimulated by ideas that we have about life and the world.

Sometimes people start to meditate and they get a headache. It's because they're trying too hard. You're pulling in too much energy.

The navel center will bring the power of all three of the lower chakras into your being, but with safety.

You don't have to do anything to meditate. That's what makes it so difficult. Everybody wants to do something.

The planet earth is a sub-world, way below what's average, because if an enlightened being walked through New York City today, no one would see him or her. They wouldn't see the glow.

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.

What Sri Krishna is saying, is that it's a terrible mistake to believe that this life we lead is real. Obviously it's real, but it doesn't last very long in its realness. It's very ephemeral and to mistaken the forms of life, the shapes that life takes, for reality, is not wise.