As long as you visualize this sphere of red energy surrounding you, negative thoughts, hostilities, anger, and aggressive feelings of other persons and situations cannot enter you.

The reason one enters into lower mental states is because you don't have the power or chi flowing through you.

Why do everything perfectly? Isn't perfection just an illusion? Tell me if it's an illusion if they don't fix your car perfectly next time you bring it in.

Nirvikalpa samadhi is another matter. I don't feel that's really up to us. That happens at a certain time when our being has gone through countless changes and refinements.

Life reorders you when you go into the clear light. Even the causal structure is liquefied. The clear light of reality, the dharmakaya, changes us into beings of light.

Buddha indicated that the self, that part of you that incarnates from lifetime to lifetime was causal.

Taoism shows us how to deal with life and death by realizing everything here is transitory but its substance is eternal.