Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons.

Words are deceptive. You think you understand something because it's explained to you and now you are under no obligation to do anything because you understand it.

Chanting a mantra at the beginning of your meditation helps you clear the mind and takes you deep within the self. Chanting a mantra at the end of meditation helps you seal the meditation. It helps you bring the awareness of the meditation down into your daily life.

When you listen to what entities say, the gradually work their way into your thoughts. After a while you will start thinking their thoughts. You won't know they aren't your thoughts. Soon you will be fully possessed.

As Buddhist monks, our task is to bring ourselves resolutely more and more into light, to forgive and forget, to forget those who create problems for us because to remember them is only to keep problems is mind.

Everything aids everything, because all things are a reflection of the Buddha mind, of the mind of Enlightenment.

Music is part of the tantra, the dance of life. Before your eyes, before your awareness, is the procession of eternity.