As long as you are in the relative worlds, you should be realistic and know there is winning and losing here.

Smile sometimes when things aren't going well, and maybe realize when they aren't going well, they are.

Never be bored. Energy lives off of attention. When you are bored you get drained.

When one side or the other predominates, there's an imbalance and there's unhappiness.

Inspire people very selectively with sincerity and with respect. You want to increase your energy? Then want, inside your heart, to inspire others. It will lift you tremendously.

Reincarnation is not something that occurs at death; it is something that takes place at every moment. Death and rebirth are occurring every second.

If the Zen master sees that it will cause a person to progress, he will ask that person to do a task. The task is charged with power if it's performed properly. It's a koan between yourself and the Zen Master.