It is inevitable that, in the process of teaching an Asian religion in a Western country, many of the teachings will seem strange or unusual - in the same way that Christianity and Judaism may seem strange and unusual to people from the Far East.

There wasn't a single day in which the world was created. It's created anew at every moment. The structures of eternity are completely fluid but they are bound together by the mind forming a nexus point so reality comes into being.

It is easier to develop the mind through meditation than it is just through athletic practice. If you put the two together, it will be unbelievable.

It is in Zen practice that you gain power, balance and wisdom. The battles that you fight are within your own mind. That is where the real victories and defeats are.

Consciousness, like a complex system of software, has thousands of levels of nested, self-accessing subroutines

I know a lot of wealthy people in West Los Angeles. Money doesn't necessarily make you happy.

People want power but not wisdom. Power without wisdom is a very dangerous thing. Better to have wisdom first.