The most important enemy for everyone is their own illusion that makes them unrealistic or exaggerates their sense of self-importance in the world. Ironically, you're the super secret enemy. Whether lay or householder, everyone has that internal enemy.

It isn't the meaning of love where you somehow desire that one or you want them or want them to love you.

Greed, the desire to incorporate, is magnified and fed back to produce the pretan realms, just as hate creates the hells.

The problem in our society is the ego psychology and conventional wisdom about "look out for #1." That conventional wisdom thinks that "love your enemy" is to some a principle no one can ever live by.

What makes me fully alive is anything. Really just being alive is enough.

More than whether you live or die, it's how you are living or dying that is important.

Actually there's a very bad trend in some cults about how Guru's are supposed to be mean to their students, and there are some who revel in this and are abusive.