To simply see a teacher to gain power is a mistake. You'll gain the power, but with the current mindset that you have you'll probably create more unhappiness for yourself than happiness.

Death is only a summer vacation for us. We don't really change or lose what we have learned or who we have been when we die, because we are our karma.

Happiness comes from living in the moment, this moment, now, right here. If you are in obscure states of mind, you won't see what this moment is. You won't realize its beauty.

The spirit longs for the world of light from which it came. That longing causes something to happen. It causes the being to grow into light.

The surface personality is only the beginning of what we are. So as we meditate, we still that surface personality, we can see beyond it, and we see that we encompass multitudes.

Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons.

There are two choices available in duality - one side or the other side. Everyting is formed from that.