In reality, as any physicist will tell you, the physical world is made up of moving energy. All matter is energy.

Our spirit grows and develops traits in each incarnation that it passes through, and then collects and carries the essence of those traits into future lifetimes. In Buddhist Yoga we refer to our multi-life karmic traits as samskaras.

The body comes and goes. This life, my friend, will come and go. It is a fleeting moment, an impulse in an eternal reality.

It is through many lifetimes of shifting the aggregate of the self that one finally reaches a point of maximum velocity whereby one can snap off the circle completely and move into freedom.

There is no fanaticism in any of this. There is intensity. You have to make it happen. You have to put your will into perfecting your daily life, into monitoring your thoughts.

We are trying to do our best to bring perfection into whatever we turn our attention to.

Meditation is like taking a shower. You are going to wash all the dirt off that you have picked up since your last shower and be clean.