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

Self-knowledge, I guess, is hard. But I think pain is harder, personally. I think to be hopeless is very hard. I think to die without hope or to live without hope is very hard.

You identify with your self. You have a personal history. You have commitments. There are things that you want to experience and other things that you want to avoid.

There are certain protective forces in the universe that do watch over us, but the innocent die too.

I no longer teach meditation, only software design.

The knowledge of reincarnation assures us that life is worth living. Life is not a one-shot deal. It is forever.

In Tantric Zen, career, relationships, the type of insurance you have - all things are part of your evolution, your awareness, your experience of the suchness of existence.