The final result of all life is your awareness. Your awareness is existence.

Fair Game Theory: If you are dumb enough to be drained by people then you are fair game.

The pathway to enlightenment is beautiful. There are a lot of wonderful things that happen along the way. Win or lose, you just keep going, and it happens eventually.

The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and suffering.

Anyone who seeks enlightenment is going to encounter opposition, whether it is from their society or from non-physical forces or friends or whatever it is. Be strong enough to go through that and win.

If you are truly wise, you love life very deeply. You love the things in your life, transient though they may be.

Tantric Zen is more suited for this age that we live in. It give you rules, but in a gentle way. It's not as demanding.