Who needs to go the horror movies? Just go outside or turn on the TV. Buddha called it the "nightmare of the day." Welcome to incarnate experience.

Flaky devotionalism, bowing and scraping and sucking up to the teacher is very phony. It is counterproductive to enlightenment and spiritual development. What is necessary is mutual respect.

My teacher knew that I always had a girlfriend. For some reason, he never said anything to me about it.

This is a place where the strong often victimize the weak.

Astrologically, at that age, you experience a Saturn return. It is considered an auspicious time to "reboot" your life. It's a chance to have a clean start and move forward into something very exciting.

This is just one little lifetime in a succession of lifetimes.

In sexual contact a doorway opens between people, and it is very possible for someone to be abusive at that time with energy.