Put on the music, and listen. Zazen means to sit, to listen. You're listening to enlightenment, to the universes, to the planes of mind.

As a dialectical teacher, I have had many lives where I have taught Zen and Tibetan Buddhism and mysticism. I teach in many different modalites. But the theme that unites them - is love.

What you focus on you become. If you spend an hour or two a day meditating and focusing on light, then you will eventually become light.

Life is beautiful all of the time. Just to be alive and perceive that beauty of life all around you and within you is the best that there is.

When you meditate your body shouldn't move. Some people get into this kundalini sway business. Your body shouldn't move.

Some people get tired of continual perception of the finite universe. They feel the perception of the universe over and over in variant forms is kind of an unhappy condition, because it doesn't last.

Think of what you love most in this world. This is what you will come back to in your next life.