How do I speak to listeners in a way to convince them there is another way to live than out of the mind, that there is a new life within whose nature is both empty silence, or the Void, which are filled with unending and countless flows of energies? 

How do I convince people to look and FEEL within to find that non-substance and spaciousness which is their true form?  How do I convince YOU, that you are not your body, and that the body is only the house you, as life, live in?  How do I convince you that you are life itself, the experience of all things, all energies, all thoughts, all emotions, yet yourself being without form? 

How do I convince you that as life, you are temporary in that body you occupy now, but you are immortal as life itself.  In your present form you are an incarnation of life, the life force.  I give the nameless a name so that I can talk about its processes and qualities, but holding onto this name will cause you further blindness.

YOU are without form, like the wind or the sky, yet you live in countless forms as the landlord of that form.  You are like the wind through the trees making endless comforting sounds, all created within you. What mystery this is.

Most people are dead to any energies inside themselves, so I may start by talking about sex as one minor expression of an infinite number of energies within, and most people deal with sexual energies a lot.  Our whole capitalistic society is based on selling sex or sexualized sunstitutes, such as glamour, celebrities, clothing, perfumes, TV series, movies, all playing with sexual topics. 

I have been in contact with spiritual teachers, six Zen masters, Muktananda, Robert Adams, Jean Dunn, Dhyanyogi, the entire senior staff of the Chogya Zen Buddhist order, but only twice have I heard any speak of sex.  Both times were when students asked Robert if it was spiritually correct to have sex.  Both times Robert said sex was O.K., there was nothing spiritually wrong with it. Twice!  Once I heard another student ask Seung Sahn if he had a girlfriend or wanted one, to which he replied, “Why?”

Sex is one small way to make an introduction to the vastness of the myriad of life’s forces, life’s internal energies that one finds once our sensibilities become more subtle than the physical body.  Entering into these subtle realms begins to reveal to us that we are not our bodies at all, that we are something that lives within that has no form itself, but seems to be constantly changing its non-form expressions.