“The netherworld is timeless and unchanging, and boring -- much like a doctor's waiting room.”

“You have to imaginea waiting that is not impatientbecause it is timeless.”

“It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millenia.”

“I dreamt I went to the doctor's and she gave me eight minutes to live-I'd been sitting in the fucking waiting room half an hour.”

“It would be so much easier if there were a secret password, or handshake. Netherworld,open sesame!Yeah, that didn't work, either.”

“homage to glorious samantabhadra, the all-goodto timeless buddhahood, basic total presence,to unchanging spontaneity, the spacious vajra-heart,to the nature of mind - natural perfection,constantly, simply being, we bow down.”