The way of Zen is to become independent and strong. Don't rely on others for perceptions of life and truth. Do it individually. Go to a teacher of Zen to learn how to do that, not to get answers for individual life situations.

We live in a competitive society. To pretend that it is not there is ridiculous. That is how the whole planet is set up. If you are not competitive, you do not succeed, you do not survive.

If you meditate, you can experience the other worlds, the far-flung eternities and dimensions - and you are not stuck in any one of them.

The members of the Mystery school, during the time of Atlantis, had psychically seen the subsequent ages of darkness.

If you are trying to aid people in the process of self-discovery, what you have to do is confound them with so many concepts that are contradictory, yet each make complete sense in its own right.

Who are these human beings anyway? They walk around, strut, fret, as if they owned the planet, or the goddamned universe. I mean, who do they really think they are?

Go through the things that life gives you to go through, happily. You have to loosen the grip of time, gradually.