You are trying to pierce the veil, to break through the Frisbee so that it doesn't exist, to break through the football so it doesn't exist, and to break through your opponent so they don't exist.

Sex does drain a certain amount of your occult energy. But that really has nothing to do with enlightenment.

Only one who has achieved immortality of awareness can laugh with life and laugh with death.

Self-hate doesn't create enlightenment. It just causes you to not enjoy the current moment.

As a dialectical teacher, I have had many lives where I have taught Zen and Tibetan Buddhism and mysticism. I teach in many different modalites. But the theme that unites them - is love.

Buddhism is the study of power initially. It takes a certain amount of power to even know your potential - to have the sense that you can change the way you perceive.

Forever is not an idea or a concept, it is reality. All of the things here come from forever. We call forever nirvana in Zen.