You need to constantly examine your life, inner and outer, to see where you are losing and gaining power.

In Zen we do everything perfectly. We feel that our outer actions are a reflection of our inner state. We call it mindfulness.

It is the teacher's job to point out mistakes so that an individual doesn't continue to hurt themselves or others.

The mind must be made calm and still. Then it is aimed at the sky, at the brightness, at that infinitude of being that stretches out endlessly in every direction forever.

Rise above the limited conditions of pleasure and pain, success and failure, happiness and sorrow, that all the countless unenlightened beings in creation are slaves to.

While it is possible to create all your own energy, most people feed off the energy of others. If you could see on multiple planes of attention you would be astonished!

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