Real meditation engenders humility and purity, always. Yet I don't really think it demands any kind of lifestyle.

Don Juan speaks of the island of the tonal as something that's in the middle of the ocean ... the nagual.

A Zen master is someone whose life is one with enlightenment and self-discovery. They can never be separated from that. They've been essentially mastered by Zen.

C. S. Lewis, Plato, Aristotle and many more names that I could add, including Einstein's, were individuals who were able to see the innate order in life, which others perceive as chaos.

There are two sides to self-discovery, as in most things, an outer more popular side and an inner side. The popular side presents more of a simplified form.

Career success means making enough money to lead the kind of life you would like to lead as a practicing Buddhist.

The tonal is the sense of place. It is order and reason in a world of chaos.