My happiness comes from doing all I can for my students. To help them, what else could there be?

Through the practice of concentration and various techniques, we silence the mind and we enter into a flow of perfect light. We go outside of the parameters of mind and thought and experience nirvana.

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.

For years we practice meditation, like any art, and we get better at it each day. In the beginning it's just enough for us to sit down and focus our attention.

The human field of perception is not the only band of perception. Nor is it necessarily the best; there is no such thing in infinity. Infinity does not label.

The more moral you pretend to be, the less moral you are; the less moral you try to be, the more moral you are.

There are so many traps. There are so many opportunities. Life is a river and we take our boat and we go down it.