“Everyone is psychic. You are psychic. It is an ability that we all have. It’s a part of your mind… Psychic perception does not come through the thinking mind, nor does it come through emotional feelings — it comes from the psychic plane of intuition — another avenue within the mind. To reach into that…
“Why does a person experience stress? Stress occurs because that which is within you — which is light, intelligence, energy — wants to do certain things and doesn’t want to do other things. And that changes. Stress is a result of the fact that you’re out of tune with your life and your inner…
“Karma, first of all, is engendered by states of mind. It’s best to think of karma, not so much in terms of physical action, but as waveforms of vibratory energy. Karma is your own energy — the energy patterns that emanate from your life, from your actions, from your thoughts, feelings, and desires…. If you…
“Happy people, enlightened people, successful people, inspired people — they all share something in common — they’ve learned how to manage and increase their energy.” “There are two sides to increasing energy. One is learning how to gain energy; the other is avoiding its loss. My subject today is not so much how you increase…
“Most people enjoy the feeling of complacency. They’ve learned to like the feeling of sitting down in front of the television set, of lying on the beach in the sunshine, of driving around in their car without anything to do, of talking endlessly for hours with others about trivial subjects — in other words, no…
“There are two sides to self-discovery as in most things — an outer, more popular side and an inner side. Today I would like to tell you about the more esoteric aspects of reincarnation. The esoteric teaching of reincarnation is that it’s happening all the time. At every moment we’re going through a change. Our…
“In a Zen state of mind, you do not worry … you don’t give your thoughts to your opponent, you don’t give your power or thoughts to success or failure, you don’t care about the crowd that’s watching you or the fact that no one is watching you. There is only one thought — one…
“It’s not special to be enlightened. It’s just different. An enlightened person is someone who has dedicated not just this lifetime, but thousands of lifetimes to becoming awareness. They see through the mysteries of life and understand them — and what the enlightened person sees, no one could ever tell or describe. Wonder beyond belief.”…
“In Tantric Zen the thought is — “It doesn’t matter, but it does.” It doesn’t really matter what you do — it is your state of mind that matters … Everything is dependent upon your state of mind. If you’re in a very tantric state of mind, then your experiences will be quite different…”…
“What do I have to say about advanced meditation? It’s a feeling. It’s beyond the body and beyond the mind. I would classify beginning meditation — beginning, intermediate, whatever you’d like to call it — as meditation with thought. As long as there is thought in the mind while you’re sitting, practicing zazen, then…
“There are two practices — concentration and meditation. For the first year or two, you probably will be almost exclusively practicing concentration. You will try meditating, but it won’t come until later… When you concentrate, you’re focusing on something. When you meditate, you’re letting go and dissolving, you’re seeking to stop all thought.” “It is…
“Zen is the study of making the mind still. As your mind becomes still, a power enters into you. This power transforms your mind. It escalates your evolution and you begin to cycle through many incarnations in one lifetime. You make tremendous quantum leaps and jumps… you are going to take perhaps a hundred lifetimes,…