Reality is perfect light. It frees you from the limitations of this world, from the ugliness, from the unhappiness of limited perception.

The thousand petal lotus of light, the crown center, really does not become operative until one is on the verge of enlightenment itself. Then you really don't have to meditate on it. The thousand petals gradually light up.

The Zen Master was constantly attempting to break up concepts that people had about what it was like to be a spiritual teacher. We have a traditional image. Each Zen master was a complete character.

In Zen, and in other forms of self discovery, we do have a transference that occurs where psychically, information, blocks of attention, are transferred to the student.

Stop being jealous, I mean, to be jealous is to suggest that God doesn't know what she is doing. This is ridiculous! She does everything perfectly

Our adult personality is a mirror image of who we were in the last stage of our life in our previous incarnation.

The most knowledgeable person is not necessarily the person who runs the government, nor the church, nor the business.