What is gone before is gone. All you have now are the results of your actions.

You can summon up power from past lives and bring them into this life. That can give you a boost into the next state of mind or further up.

The karma that is most interesting is the mental karma because ultimately it generates physical action.

So what you are accomplishing is entrenching yourself more and more in this world.

Enlightenment requires discipline, balance, knowledge, power, happiness and a sense of responsibility and sacrifice, being able to do things with your life that you would not have done otherwise.

Tantra is quicker; but for some people it can be spiritually disastrous.

Unconscious of the existence of Tao, beings live supposing themselves to be separate from the universal intelligence, supposing themselves to be powerful or to be weak, thinking that they live their lives and die their deaths.