He summarizes Zen as a two stem process... One stem being the sitting down and dropping the mind immediately. The other stem being the Rinzai school approach, which is the offering of a Koan to a student, along with strict discipline. The koan is a question without direct answer, and the student is disciplined for an answer to it. The result can be pure awareness.
He summarizes Tantra as a practice of pure awareness by destroying the ego through a set of visualizations... The student is given a object of meditation (a Tantric Deity for example) and by becoming that, their ego is lost.
Lastly, he summarizes Vipassana as a process of mindfulness of awareness through a slow but steady examination of one's own existence.
As he writes about Vipassana:
Vipassana is a gentle technique. But it
also is very, very thorough. It is an ancient and codified system of sensitivity training, a set of exercises dedicated to becoming more and more receptive to your own life experience. It is attentive listening, total seeing and careful testing.
We learn to smell acutely, to touch fully and really pay attention to what we feel.
We learn to listen to our own thoughts without being caught up in them.
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