What is essential is to draw the energy of love from your heart and bring it into your mind, as San Exubere said: "it is only with the heart that one sees rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye."

It takes quite a bit of time to become enlightened. But it really is not so different from learning any other art; all you need is time, a good teacher, and practice.

It's only illusions that destroy us. It's illusions that convince us that we can't. It's the illusions of the transient that tell us that all this matters.

Free will exists within each of us. Most people choose not to use their free will, so consequently they rarely alter their karmic patterns.

Time is not a movement in space. Space is a movement in time.

We are going to alter the structure of our beings and also totally change what we are. This is the possibility and inevitability that meditation offers us.

In Tantric Zen there is no rule. There is only your immediate experience.