Some people think Taoism means not doing anything, just going on with your life. That has little or nothing to do with Taoism.

The void is ready to snatch you up like a Pac Man machine and Laskshmi is on vacation. You chant Sring - and you get her answering machine.

The way you increase your energy is by letting go, ultimately. There is something inside you that knows what it should do, and you fight it all the time.

Self-discovery is realistic. It's not built on ideas and philosophies. It's what works. Philosophies are nice if you like philosophies. But self-discovery is predicated on something that really brings you into enlightened states of mind.

You're composed of an aggregate of different forms and energies, the samskaras. These are lines within your own being. When you go into samadhi, these lines dissolve gradually so you become less formed.

The pageant of life is divided into ying and yang. They're two circles. You can follow either circle and manage to develop enough speed to move beyond this world to other worlds, dimensional realities.

The types of thoughts that you think create a state of mind. The reason you think the thoughts you do results from your level of power.