You must be accommodating with your teacher. You must have a sense of humor about your teacher and the impossible things they ask you to do.

Tantric Zen, at first, does not appear to have a method. In Tantric Zen, you could meditate on a Brillo box or you could meditate on the clear light of reality.

Let the rain of unhappy and tragic experiences fall, as sometimes it inevitably must, even in the lives of the enlightened masters. If your mind has become one with nirvana, you will remain happy at all times.

Take your energy - instead of losing it in all the little hassles and all the little battles you could have fought with opponents who didn't matter.

It takes a lot of energy to manipulate someone and keep them on a string.

The Zen master can see precisely what it will take to cause your awareness to become free. But the Zen master can't do it for you.

This is the process of mental analysis, sifting through the selves, sifting through your thoughts, practicing mindfulness, learning to control thought.