If you line everything up, just right, you walk through a doorway where the world as you know it collapses.

Advance yourself by advancing others. Do not judge others. Be of service to them, but realize that you are not necessarily the instrument of perfecting and immortalizing others.

We live inside too much. We live inside and we have square thoughts and square ideas because we live in square houses. Our lives are colored by our environments. Our attention fields are colored by it.

If the Zen master sees that it will cause a person to progress, he will ask that person to do a task. The task is charged with power if it's performed properly. It's a koan between yourself and the Zen Master.

So what you are accomplishing is entrenching yourself more and more in this world.

Taoism is the gentle way. The path of least resistence.

You need to shelter yourself from the abrasive forces of life that drain you and keep you in a lower state of mind.