The aura of billions of people coats all experiences like a thick cloud of smog. Just to live on the earth is to live in that smog.

OK, you're alive. How aware are you, of anything? Can you see eternity? Do you live in the land of the perpetually happy?

Salvakalpa samadhi is a tremendous acceptance and liberation, but it is not complete absorption in nirvana, in that consciousness.

I used to live in Seattle, as did Jimi Hendrix and Bruce Lee. I lived near the arboretum. Very often I would take walks late at night by Lake Washington, because I found it very easy to meditate there.

In martial arts one of the first things that you learn is to be balanced. Balance is the central principle in architecture and design. Balance is a way of trying to talk about being at the center of things.

I like Miracles. They inspire me. Miracles are the fun of enlightenment. When a teacher does a miracle, and everyone sees it, they have faith in what the teacher has to say about self-discovery.

While this is good and it stores up knowledge and power, at the same time there's a problem with it because it means that a person becomes more fixed.