As Buddhists, our only task is to keep our room clean.

While I enjoy teaching people on the basic and intermediate levels to work them up to advanced levels, my real talent is for the advanced students. You could say that I'm like a ninth-degree black belt in martial arts.

It's fun to go to a supermarket or a park or a shopping mall where human beings convene. They're so caught up in their own personal reality as to not see life, except in terms that add to or detract from their movie.

The key to happiness, in my opinion, is taking the time to find out what your spirit wants you to do, and doing it.

When you're around the aura of humanity in those cities, you can't feel anything.

There is really only one Zen Master ... and that's yourself.

If we get too caught up in the rhetoric of meditation, we will miss the point. The point was to go beyond rhetoric.