Your heart chakra is not in your physical body. It is in your subtle physical body, but it comes in contact with your physical body in this location.

We learn to avoid blocking others, interfering with others, because that will decrease our happiness, slow our vibratory rate and generally bring us down and make us miserable.

When there's no difference, there's no time, no world, no separativity - and there's no you ... nor is there an I.

When I go visit my brother monks in Japan and sit down with other Zen Masters, they look at my crazy clothes and my strange expression, but they feel the power that emanates from my dedication to the practice. So they are comfortable with me, yet they're very uncomfortable.

It is necessary to be focused. This is the raison d'etre of career.

This is simple meditation, nothingness and everythingness, the color and the form, death and the void, the end and the beginning, a beginningless end with an endless beginning, Pretty clever if you ask me.

I think I'm on an angle. I'm on an oblique angle through all of existence.