I may discuss contemporary cinema, how to shop at a mall without losing energy, how to use the power of mind to increase career and academic success, the Zen of sports, reincarnation, karma, sex, the experience of "suchness" or a new book by Stephen King.

Allow the inherent emptiness within what you are about to do direct you.

OK, you're alive. How aware are you, of anything? Can you see eternity? Do you live in the land of the perpetually happy?

When you visit the Zen Monasteries, one of the first things required is that you bring a donation. They have to pay for those monasteries. The upkeep is fantastic. The monks have to be fed, and so on.

Perception is a wave. You change as your perception of something changes because you define yourself as a reflection of whatever you happen to perceive.

To go beyond karma you have to end the structure of self.

You are on a vast wheel of birth and death. You have been through thousands of lifetimes, thousands yet to come.