Fear can be used to get into your attention. Any way a person can get you to think of them, allows them to drain you.

What you focus on you become. If you spend an hour or two a day meditating and focusing on light, then you will eventually become light.

As a dialectical teacher, I have had many lives where I have taught Zen and Tibetan Buddhism and mysticism. I teach in many different modalites. But the theme that unites them - is love.

We have a body, but we also have a subtle body, a body of energy that looks like our physical body. The subtle physical body is made up of energy, of light that vibrates at a very high rate so the human physical eyes can't see it.

I think perhaps the greatest book ever written was Ulysses by James Joyce.

I first went into samadhi when I was 19. I was meditating in the mountains and had been meditating on a daily basis for several years. Suddenly there was no time or space or life or death or myself or the Universe. I was absorbed in light.

OK, you're alive. How aware are you, of anything? Can you see eternity? Do you live in the land of the perpetually happy?