I recommend, for many people, the study of computer science. Our natural resource in America is the mind. The mindset in computer science is very similar to the mindset in Zen.

You need to constantly examine your life, inner and outer, to see where you are losing and gaining power.

The key to all enlightenment is to have personal experiences in the world of light. All you need to do that is to meditate.

These are the mysterious ways of knowledge, power and enlightenment. I can only allude to them in words. I cannot possibly explain what this process is like.

Can you control your anger, lust, frustrations, and jealousies? Those are the only people worthy of the higher teachings. By worthy, I mean that they are the only ones capable of it.

Tantric Zen is more suited for this age that we live in. It give you rules, but in a gentle way. It's not as demanding.

When you chant "Aum" or any mantra, do so softly and gently. Extend the sound. Focus your awareness on the sound of the mantra and become absorbed in it.