You identify with your self. You have a personal history. You have commitments. There are things that you want to experience and other things that you want to avoid.

You gain power through practicing meditation and concentration. You gain power by doing anything you like that makes you feel good. You gain power by being happy.

In the Bhagavad-Gita Krishna says: Arjuna you cannot avoid action. Everyone is stuck in the world of action. The world of action is forever.

The Chinese used the symbol of tai chi, the undifferentiated reality - no separation, no left and right.

Everything is part of one web, one matrix of existence, beyond discussion. This is our true self in its undifferentiated form.

Advance yourself by advancing others. Do not judge others. Be of service to them, but realize that you are not necessarily the instrument of perfecting and immortalizing others.

Meditation is not emptiness. That is a way of trying to talk about something that is impossible to put into words. It is a world of fullness, if anything.