Ep. 2

Beloved acharya, the student doko came to the master and said, "in what state of mind should I seek the truth?", the master replied, " there is no mind, so you cannot put it in any state, and there is no truth, so you cannot seek it." doko said, "if there is no mind and no truth, why do all these students gather before you every day to study?" the master looked around and said, "i don't see anyone." the inquirer asked, "then who are you teaching?" "i have no tongue, so how can I teach?", replied the master. Then doko said sadly, "i cannot follow you; I cannot understand." the master said, "i don't understand myself."

Season 4

Using traditional Zen stories and responding to seekers' questions, Acharya shows how man must first be grounded in himself before he can fly into the sky of consciousness. Acharya takes the reader from subjects as diverse as food, jealousy, businessmen and enlightenment, to how to know if one needs a master, the barriers we create through fear, and gratitude.

"Be rooted in the earth so that you can stretch to the sky; be rooted in the visible so that you can reach into the invisible. Don't create duality and don't create any antagonism. If I am against anything, I am against antagonism. I am against being against anything; I am for the whole, the complete circle. The world and God are not divided anywhere. There is no boundary: the world goes on spreading into God and God goes on spreading into the world. Really, to use two words is not good but language creates problems. We say the creator and the created, we divide. Language is dualistic; in reality there is no created and no creator, only creativity, only a process of infinite creativity. Nothing is divided. Everything is one -- undivided."