The purpose of life is to love, not necessarily to be loved.

Gradually, you were given a description of the world, a way of seeing, which is largely sexual.

My feeling is that drugs and alcohol take away from the pure experience of meditation. That does not mean that occasionally, a person couldn't have a glass of wine or a drink.

Sometimes I think death is a greater awareness than life. Life gives us the illusion of immortality, whereas death gives us the certainty of immortality

I know a lot of wealthy people in West Los Angeles. Money doesn't necessarily make you happy.

We call it the transmission of the lamp in Zen. That's when we take enlightened states of mind and literally, you can transfer them, just like you can hand somebody flowers.

Tantra is quicker; but for some people it can be spiritually disastrous.