At this point you are so far away from what you really are, it's ridiculous.

The secret teaching was the bodhisattva ideal, to live for others, for the welfare of all beings. That's enlightenment, not some flashy state of luminosity.

Go through every closet in your house in every room.

Every moment gives birth to the next moment and influences it. Getting out of that chain of perpetual being is getting off the wheel of birth and death. That is enlightenment.

Without wisdom, power tends to destroy the one who wields it.

The mind is afraid of its own dissolution. Life always seeks life.

What we're seeking to do is internalize perception. Perception is very much involved with the senses and the mental processes and the emotional processes.