The aura of billions of people coats all experiences like a thick cloud of smog. Just to live on the earth is to live in that smog.

In the advanced practice, the relationship between the Zen master and the student becomes very terse. The Zen master will expect things of the student because the student is in graduate school.

In Zen, and in other forms of self discovery, we do have a transference that occurs where psychically, information, blocks of attention, are transferred to the student.

The spirit longs for the world of light from which it came. That longing causes something to happen. It causes the being to grow into light.

The person who gives selflessly in this lifetime immediately goes into a better state of mind. That is instant karma.

Inwardly the sun also has an energy field, it has an aura, so does the earth, so does the moon, and so do all the planets. We're affected by those auras. It's not something that you really want to reason out.

Never think too much of yourself. Realize you are only an instrument of eternity. Do not get stuck in that terrible trap. You can lose everything.