The main part of these teachings is to help us dissolve the dualistic struggle against what is happening to us. Rather than struggle or backing away from what is happening, move toward the difficulty. We can use everything that happens to us as the means for waking up.
Find the way that natural forces work and borrow their power. When you harness natural forces, you harness something of great power. However, we can only borrow their energy. When initiative and natural forces are combined there is true harmony.
Would you like to liberate yourself from the lower realms of life? Would you like to save the world from the degradation and destruction it seems destined for? Then step away from the shallow mass movements and quietly go to work on your own self-awareness.
We should not try to combat our own faults directly, the longer and harder we fight them the more victorious they will be. Fighting our faults by making progress in the good is the only way. Take care not to become hardened and obstinate, remain receptive to impressions by continuous self examination.
Quote: We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. Plato