What I term Zen, old Zen, the original face of Zen, new Zen, pure Zen, or Tantric Zen is - Zen in its essence.

In my very early childhood, when I was only 3 or 4 or 5, I would enter for many hours into meditative states in which the world would become light and energy and I would transcend the boundaries of the senses.

Sometimes people start to meditate and they get a headache. It's because they're trying too hard. You're pulling in too much energy.

In the training process, the teacher addresses two sides of your being. One is the tonal and one is the nagual.

Do not be a sniveler. Do not say you can't be happy, you can't be enlightened. How do you know? It is all chaos.

I don't believe in anything, yet I believe emphatically in almost everything. It all depends on what seems appropriate at the time.

Sit down, keep your back straight, relax and have an object on which to concentrate; you might use a candle flame, a brightly colored rock, a yantra, which is a geometrical designed specifically for the practice of concentration.