I am Western and I see no need or reason to change that. The Western lifestyle has many things to offer, as do the Eastern methods of self discovery. I think blending the two is very desirable.

As you gain more discipline over your body, you will find that a corollary discipline will develop in the mind because the two really go together.

That's what self-discovery seems to mean to most people. You're going to beat yourself up. You're going to reduce what you're supposed to be and do to a set of rules so you can defy them, or so you can perform them and feel smug.

In tantra one does not seek experiences that most people would consider unspiritual and try to see truth in them. In tantra we don't try to guide our life in a specific way. We let the winds of existence blow us where they will.

What is will? It is a decision. It is a decision to be something. We really aren't anything in particular. We can be anything. That's the good news.

Love is the chariot of emotion which takes us to our beloved. When we love we see beyond the prism of illusion.

Purity is innocence, the innocence of lack of self. Desire is innocent unless it's connected with self.