The Zen master can see precisely what it will take to cause your awareness to become free. But the Zen master can't do it for you.

When you change your state of mind, your whole life changes, nothing remains the same. Nothing looks the same, because you have changed.

What you have done causes things to happen. Your situation in life now has been caused, is predicated upon, your previous actions. That is karma.

Celibacy doesn't make you enlightened, otherwise every nun or priest in Buddhism or Christianity would be enlightened. People who don't date and can't get any action would be enlightened.

If you can't hold a person in your mind with a good thought, it is better not to think about them at all.

If you go to a lower crossover point, a negative place of power, then the beings there are very unevolved, very demonic, crazy, lower than the people of this world.

As the kundalini energy increases, as the energy of the psyche becomes more pronounced, which it does as thought becomes eclipsed by silence, all the variant mind states burn away.