Without a guide or light than that which burned in my heart

En una noche obscura,
con ansias en amores imflamada,
¡oh dichosa uentura!
sali sin ser notada,
estando ya mi casa sosegada.

A escuras y segura,
por la secreta escala disfraçada,
¡oh dichosa uentura!
a escuras y ençelada,
estando ya mi casa sosegada.

En la noche dichosa,
en secreto, que nadie me ueya,
ni yo miraua cosa,
sin otra luz ni guia
sino la que en el coraçon ardia.

Aquesta me guiaua
mas cierto que la luz del mediodia,
adonde me esperaua
quien yo bien me sabia,
en parte donde nadie parecia.

¡Oh noche que me guiaste!
¡oh noche amable mas que el aluorada!,
¡oh noche que juntaste
amado con amada,
amada en el amado transformada!

San Juan De La Cruz

No place to stand

"I do not actually give you an home base to come back to, as "keep come back to the breath". There is a reason: when you finally give up the notion that you are going to have a place to stand that's when you are doing 3D zen as opposed to a flat zen put down from a fixed prospective: "I'm over here, sitting on the river bank, watching the river". If that works right at some point you became the river without being caught by the river, but if this doesn't work right you can expend 20 or 30 years on the bank of that river and never be liberated. So I do not want you to have a center, I want the center to have you, a completely different experience."
Shinzen Young
>> No place to stand (video)

The reptilian brain - Working Through the Primal Feel Strata

"We have within us this freaked out infant animal, deep down within. As we meditate the super adult part of us shines is attention on this freaked out animal part that remains and integrates, or we can say even eats up, this more primitive part, strata by strata, and derived nutrition from it. "
Shinzen Young
Working Through the Primal Feel Strata 

Here again he talks about how the deep mind, or subconscious can be reached and retrained through a body sensation feedback loop.
"The surface of the subconscious can be reached through mental talk, a little deeper level cannot be reached by mental talk but it can be reached by mental images. The deepest level of the subconscious cannot even be reached by mental images but it can be reached by body sensations.
At the level of body sensations when the reptilian brain notices that when  there is an interference with the flow of body sensations, it's own product of course, than there is suffering, and when it stops interfering then there is the absence of suffering or fulfillment."
"Le lizard brain is trained (in a skinnerian model) in not interfering with his own activity "
Shinzen Young