Examine everything that you've been taught, not simply what you've been taught in school, but the images that have been held up to you since the time of your birth.

There is no life and there is no death. Life and death are moving shadows cast upon the ground by clouds that sweep across the sky.

People love misery, they love to feel sorry for themselves, and they definitely don't want to be enlightened. That's the first thing they tell you at boot camp in the higher worlds.

Most people lead lives of frustration and disapointment. They enjoy temporary pleasures and long-lasting suffering.

Don Juan, in the teacings of Carlos Castaneda, makes the same point. You have to fool people into seeking knowlege. People will not do it of their own volition.

When you combine a media - bent on exploiting tabloid-type stories to boost ratings and circulation by innuendo and titillation - with unhappy or opportunistic individuals who have nothing going for them in their own lives, you get a bitter brew.

Nirvana has nothing do with any of this. None of this is there.