The Zen master can see precisely what it will take to cause your awareness to become free. But the Zen master can't do it for you.

As we go deeper and deeper into the world of meditation, we are able to travel along the luminous bands, just like you travel along a highway or road.

A master of an art is someone who's been mastered by the art. They've become so one with what they teach that you can't tell the teacher from the student.

There are no bad people; there are only bad states of mind.

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.

The universe is pretty cool. You always exist in one form or another. You are a wave and you are changing and moving from one level to another.

All incarnations are lived at once, and yet there does seem to be a linear sense of time when you're in the vortex of time and space, when your consciousness is fixated in a body.