In Zen we do everything perfectly. We feel that our outer actions are a reflection of our inner state. We call it mindfulness.

If you are a person who wants an uncommonly fine life, if you're willing to put in some time each day to do that, then that will happen to you.

The world has always been this way. I am sure in the mystery world of Egypt, ancient Atlantis, you pick a cosmos - There is always somebody on your case.

Our failure to see and access the pure joy and radiance of life is owning to a lack of awareness. In any situation there is beauty. Even at the moment of one's death there is beauty.

If you had to pick between one or the other, I can't say which one is better; but I would certainly say, in my orientation, the light of samadhi is all-pervasive. Samadhi will free you.

At the time of death we walk through a doorway and our spirit, which is very thin, slides through into another world.

All action is generated by desire. It is the desire to live that causes us to reincarnate.