Maximizing subject to

Some say that when you cut a vegetable the living organ screams with pain. So whether you eat meat or not, the spiritual path traveler will harm the environment in order to get the necessary energy supply to stay alive. Realizing this simple fact, you will have to create your space in all areas of your life. You are the creator of your destiny and you create the living conditions that you want to experience.

I sometimes wonder whether we have the right to use our mystic powers to get what we want. After all, if this is nothing but a mental world, we might as well use it to get what we want. The one requirement I would have for the spiritual path traveler, though, do not make these powers a goal in itself. As long as you manage to define your comfort zone, but keep your eyes on the Tao you should be all-set to finish your spiritual journey. In mathematics you would say that you maximize your spiritual journey subject to operating in a defined comfort zone.