A lot of energy is lost to false teachers. Wherever dependency is created, energy is lost.

What Sri Krishna is saying, is that it's a terrible mistake to believe that this life we lead is real. Obviously it's real, but it doesn't last very long in its realness. It's very ephemeral and to mistaken the forms of life, the shapes that life takes, for reality, is not wise.

The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations.

Close the eyes, and focus on the third eye, the heart chakra, or the navel center. It is a good idea to alternate them.

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.

Lao Tsu says the way of life is water, to be fluid.

Those who are already adept at some disciplines of the body will find that the study of Zen and meditation will give you much more control than you now have.