Let the rain of unhappy and tragic experiences fall, as sometimes it inevitably must, even in the lives of the enlightened masters. If your mind has become one with nirvana, you will remain happy at all times.

These truths may seem simple and self-apparent and the words easy to say, but the states of mind that you live in as you progress are beautiful beyond description.

It's considered very, very bad karma, if I can cut to the chase, to take power from a teacher and not use it for something very positive.

The teaching process becomes most interesting for spiritual seekers once they've managed to hit the lower samadhis. However at that point many seekers become very egotistical.

In Zen, and in other forms of self discovery, we do have a transference that occurs where psychically, information, blocks of attention, are transferred to the student.

All action is generated by desire. It is the desire to live that causes us to reincarnate.

You are either in this world or the other worlds, and it all depends on how much you are in your own ego.