There is suffering and there is joy. Your life is very short, and then you're back again for another and another, forever, unless you step off the wheel.

The kundalini runs through you. It runs through the ida and the pingala, the two nerve channels in the subtle body; but there's a central channel, the shushumna, which is blocked. When it runs through that, then you can use the mystical kundalini.

There is wisdom to loving.

There are primarily two ways people can drain your energy. They can get you to want them or what they have or they can get you to fear them. In order to drain you they must get into your attention field.

At the same time, I went through college, received a Ph.D. and started to teach. I wrote books.

There's a place where everything comes together and where it's all the same. That state of mind, in which all things are the same, is the state of mind of Tantric Zen.

That's why their realization is not integrated and complete, and they must go through many, many lifetimes very often before that acceptance will take place.