People in the West sometimes have these marvelous visions of India and Tibet. They assume that there are all these sadhus walking around and everybody is breathing enlightenment. Forget it. Don't look at it through rose-colored glasses.

Beyond the subtle body we have something called the causal body; that's more what we are. We are a series of interconnecting awarenesses. It's like a molecular bond, DNA, a double-helix, and we can change that.

Most people abuse power. They use power to dominate others. They use power to destroy others. Ultimately when you do this, you lose it.

Stop trying to do things that will make you happy. Happiness is a state of mind; because otherwise, you are a slave to circumstance.

Who is so brave and so noble that they could hurl themselves at infinity without any question, with complete trust and complete certainty that that infinity will destroy them forever?

You're not listening to the Zen master, what he is saying outwardly, but even more importantly...what he is saying inwardly.

I recommend, for many people, the study of computer science. Our natural resource in America is the mind. The mindset in computer science is very similar to the mindset in Zen.