Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment, and I would encourage you to follow that pathway as far as you can, into ecstasy.

You can summon up power from past lives and bring them into this life. That can give you a boost into the next state of mind or further up.

If I ever write an autobiography about teaching meditation in the West, I'll call it "Pissing In the Wind - Teaching Buddhism in America".

There is a wonderful continuity of being, the continuous awareness of self, a sense of yourself continuing in time and space.

Taoism is the way of water. The most frequent element or symbol refered to in Lao Tzu's wrtings is the symbol of water.

You're not capable of stepping into nirvana at this time. If you did it would be disastrous. You're tonal would be swamped.

There's lower mystical kundalini and higher mystical kundalini. There are ranges within the range.