In Tantric Zen you can be humorous and make fun of anything or you can be very serious.

In most cases, energy is lost in little games of manipulation, in little struggles of will, in the attempts to possess others, to wrap them up, to delude them, to shine them on.

In lower levels things are dark, gray, experiences are shallow. You become alienated from those around you.

Whether it's a fully enlightened Christ or Buddha, or just a more aware Martin Luther King, Kennedy or Gandhi, what did they do with them here? They shoot them, crucify them, and get them out of the way because people are afraid of truth.

How can you be happy in a world like this? You have got to be crazy to even attempt something like that.

What Sri Krishna is saying, is that it's a terrible mistake to believe that this life we lead is real. Obviously it's real, but it doesn't last very long in its realness. It's very ephemeral and to mistaken the forms of life, the shapes that life takes, for reality, is not wise.

You can go through hundreds of lifetimes in one, and it all starts with daily meditation practice.