The universe is complicated and we're not going to get it all in one night or one incarnation or one infinity.

Advanced meditation is facing the immensity of eternity, embracing that which terrifies you and frightens you and loving it because it's God. You are God.

The essence of all practice is to be cool. Life is not worth getting excited about because whatever you perceive is an illusion.

It is the teacher's job to point out mistakes so that an individual doesn't continue to hurt themselves or others.

We pass through hundreds, thousands, perhaps millions of existences. In each lifetime, we're exploring another part of our own self, which is eternity.

When I go visit my brother monks in Japan and sit down with other Zen Masters, they look at my crazy clothes and my strange expression, but they feel the power that emanates from my dedication to the practice. So they are comfortable with me, yet they're very uncomfortable.

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.