The experience of going to the other side to nirvana clarifies and simplifies your view of all things. You see the world with greater clarity, because it is not obscured by illusions.

It is really important that you live in a place that has good energy. Where you sleep, where you dream, where you meditate, where you spend a lot of time is key.

Anybody or anything can become enlightened because enlightenment is the very nature of existence itself.

A time comes when you don't have to use meditation techniques anymore. You just sit down and you are nonexistence itself.

Avoidance of experiences is a fixation and it binds you to the world, it binds you to the personal self.

Often, in the student's confusion, she or he directs anger at the teacher, blaming them for the pain they are experiencing, or for their own mistakes.

When you visit the Zen Monasteries, one of the first things required is that you bring a donation. They have to pay for those monasteries. The upkeep is fantastic. The monks have to be fed, and so on.