We see an enlightened teacher to gain a sense of humor, to learn balance and proportion and of course to learn wisdom.

Discriminate between the transient and the eternal. Learn to move from complete control to complete abandon.

You must realize you are not the doer, that you are not the action.

A person of knowledge and power never goes out looking for battles. All their battles are within.

In Tantric Zen you can be humorous and make fun of anything or you can be very serious.

Every moment gives birth to the next moment and influences it. Getting out of that chain of perpetual being is getting off the wheel of birth and death. That is enlightenment.

The idea of the walls of monastery was to keep everybody else out because you wanted to develop a certain type of life. Most people in the world had different ideas on the subject.