If the tonal collapses completely, then you're crazy functionally, you're psychotic.

Combine meditation with career as a yoga. You will find that your practice will not be any less powerful than a person who lives in a monastery. You might even excel because practice in a monastery can get very one-sided.

Any good athletic is always in a state of perpetual training, as is the Zen student.

This is only a small part of the totality. From this island earth we see only a fragment of creation and its knowledge.

No one cares about you. No one cares. You will die and be forgotten.

The person who did all of these things has gone away, vanished without a trace in the ecstasy of existence.

The Zen Master was constantly attempting to break up concepts that people had about what it was like to be a spiritual teacher. We have a traditional image. Each Zen master was a complete character.