People think that by getting in touch with some being outside the body, it will solve their problems. This only creates problems. It won't help you a bit.

The emphasis is on meditation in Tantric Zen. The experience of meditation in formal practice, zazen, where you're sitting down and meditating and concentrating.

I have found that meditation has helped me with my academic career and has given me insights into musical composition and software design.

Your mind is made up of light. We call it the dharmakaya, the clear light of reality. The transcendental eternal light is everywhere. It's the light of god or whatever you want to call it.

One of my greatest personal heroes is Jerry Lopez. When you can snowboard like he surfs, you'll be there!

As the kundalini rises, the knowledge and powers of those dimensions will begin to come to you.

It is inevitable that, in the process of teaching an Asian religion in a Western country, many of the teachings will seem strange or unusual - in the same way that Christianity and Judaism may seem strange and unusual to people from the Far East.