They can't be. There's a much more fundamental issue here and one that's too often overlooked in discussions like these. It's the practice of straining through particular words in the Scriptures to find a way to reconcile the teaching of Jesus with, in this case, eastern religion. It's kind of a microscopic look at the trees that causes you to ignore the forest. It is always possible to look at individual things that are said and imagine that this plays into your favorite theology.
People do that all the time.
In this case the theology is eastern mysticism. It is also possible to take statements of Tommy Lasorda and divine some deep spiritual meaning, but I will guarantee you there's no deep spiritual meaning in Tommy Lasorda's comments about the Dodgers. You can't just make a microscopic focus of the individual words or a sentence or two here or there. You really have to look at the body of work itself. You have to look at the broader context.