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

How can you possibly be happy if you think you're a person? Because we all know, just by definition, that people are definitely not happy because they take everything too seriously. They take themselves seriously.

Stopping thought also involves shifting your values. Thought is stimulated by ideas that we have about life and the world.

Happiness is found principally in meditation. Let your mind flow out into eternity. You have to exert some effort. Then you will notice a subtle smile on your face.

Reincarnation is a dance. It is a movement of life to the rhythm of the universe. Spirit and matter join together as one dancing partner. They dance and it goes on forever.

Anyone who meditates for a period of time will gradually become more sensitized to all of life.

The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness.