The shushumna is a tube. It is an astral tube, like a reed. It runs from the base of the spine to between the eyebrows and a little bit above.

I dive all over the world: Fiji, Australia, the Caribbean, Hawaii, and many other places.

The Buddhist message is a message not of the negation of life, but one of affirmation.

If you are the body, you are in terrible trouble! One small microbe will destroy it one day, if not an accident. You have but a short time to live in this world.

When you go into samadhi there is no breath at all. The kundalini is perfectly stabilized. Usually it stabilizes in the solar plexus area.

When it reaches a blockage, water find the easiest path around the blockage, or it continues to assemble, and flows over the blockage.

It is necessary to have a very liberal and simultaneously very conservative mentality to practice Tantric Zen.