And Quotes

Opportunities, creative ideas or the lack of them, happiness, frustration, brilliance, talent, success and failure - all are determined by the state of mind that you're in.

Zen is the way of splitting the self again and again, untilt there is nothing left.

Both light and dark are eternity. Human beings assign relative values to colors, but beyond the relative, there just is - what in Zen we call "suchness".

To be psychic is to see without the senses and to keep the thoughts and emotions of others out of your awareness.

A time comes when you don't have to use meditation techniques anymore. You just sit down and you are nonexistence itself.

The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and suffering.

Every moment gives birth to the next moment and influences it. Getting out of that chain of perpetual being is getting off the wheel of birth and death. That is enlightenment.

When you could be sloppy, you're not. When you could be indulgent, you're not. When you could be sad, you laugh instead. If you fall down, you pick yourself up again and again and again.

Compassion allows us to accept everything. That's why there's always a tear in the eye of the Buddha that no one sees, for the pain and suffering of others.

The training was rigorous, hundreds and thousands of hours of meditation, self-giving. But it was easy. I loved it. I would merge again and again with the superconscious in meditation.

My feeling is that drugs and alcohol take away from the pure experience of meditation. That does not mean that occasionally, a person couldn't have a glass of wine or a drink.

I am a Teacher. I am the keeper of mysteries. You seek knowledge and power, Truth, Light, and happiness. I am happy to aid you in your search.

Eventually you will go into samadhi. Samadhi is a very advanced meditation. You dissolve into the clear light of eternity again and again.

Tantra is for the desperate. Unless you've really experienced pain and suffering, tantra won't work. Unless you've really experienced exultation and ecstasy, tantra won't work.

You need to become a winner to go beyond winning and losing.

In the West people spend most of their time and energy working. The problem is you are so tired from work that you don't have much energy to meditate - unless you use work in a tantric way.

Our past affects us, our present affects us, and even our future can affect us. We live in the relative world of time and space.

From my point of view, which is the point of view of no illusions, there is only winning and losing. You might as well be a winner.

Duality is a part of reality, and there is definitely winning and losing. If you don't think so talk to someone who has beaten cancer, talk to somebody who hasn't.

Winning and losing are feelings; something in us knows if we have won or lost.

People use ideas of non-duality as an escape from reality. It is very easy to say there is no winning and losing and justify the fact that you didn't do a very good job.

I think it is very important to view life in terms of winning and losing until complete enlightenment has occurred.

Pain and suffering only occur in temporal time. They don't occur in the world of forever. They only occur in limited transient time, which is a state of mind.

We learn to avoid blocking others, interfering with others, because that will decrease our happiness, slow our vibratory rate and generally bring us down and make us miserable.

Knowledge and power doesn't come from an entity, it comes from within yourself. What can these things tell you, to put five bucks on Snowflake in the third race?

At these crossover points, there are a lot of beings, nonphysical beings that cross over back and forth constantly.

If you are seeking power and knowledge, you need to go to places that are healthy and happy and radiant. Avoid places that aren't.

You are going around on the wheel again and again. You go around and around from lifetime to lifetime. You never quite wake up. Enlightenment is waking up.

Somewhere there is an essence. It is not a physical somewhere. There is no sense of world, of time and space. That is nirvana.

Unlike the transient days of our lives that constantly come and go, nirvana has always been, is now, and always will be.

Sensations of peace, joy, and love will enter into you. They will be very subtle at first. Then they will grow stronger.

Self discovery doesn't not seek to bring you answers about your personal life or philosophically comfort you about life and death. What it does is bring you into reality as perception itself.

Tantric Zen leads to illumination and fun right here and now, which is why I like it.

Taoism shows us how to deal with life and death by realizing everything here is transitory but its substance is eternal.

The Chinese used the symbol of tai chi, the undifferentiated reality - no separation, no left and right.

What we are seeking is the nexus of all possible worlds and states of mind, which is within us. The source of yin and yang is within you.

In addition to innocence, we have to have knowledge of good and evil.

In the universe, there is darkness and light. We call this duality. When you seek knowledge and power, there are forces and people that will oppose you.

Manipulators are very evolved. Energy is food. Forget good and bad. Is the coyote bad and the rabbit good?

You have no idea of how many people have control of your life. Make lists of people you trust and love and constantly examine the people in your life.

There is a wonderful continuity of being, the continuous awareness of self, a sense of yourself continuing in time and space.

Within an atom there can be a billion kingdoms, endless. But all of them are bound by the cycle of birth and death. They all come into being for a while and then vanish.

We cut up time and space and mind and place and being and non-being. We create a world of ideas. This is duality, pairs of apparent opposites.

Once we have conceived of time and space, once we have accepted their existence, then that implies that there is a structural order to bonding realities.

The rhythm of life is give and take. It is necessary to put things back into the system. To not do that is to foul your own nest - to use up all the natural resources greedily.

The world you experience, every day and night of your life, is transient. They only last for the blink of an eye, and then they dissolve back into that unknowable and formless eternity.

Experience is a great teacher. You will have to go through the trials and tribulations and the ecstasies and abandoned moments of wonderfulness that all of us did on the way to enlightenment.

Occupy yourself with what's in your life now. Address those situations and subjects as fully as possible with your best efforts. That is what produces happiness and clarity and knowledge and power.

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

Rise above the limited conditions of pleasure and pain, success and failure, happiness and sorrow, that all the countless unenlightened beings in creation are slaves to.