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why did this happen? how did i let it happen? I mean i love getting fit so why has it become such a mission and not a regular thing, like going to the potty......it frustrates me that i lose my motivation. i cant say exactly why it happens but it makes me so miserable. when i skip the gym i am unhappy all day or negative or just not the same person. when i go to the gym i'm happy after, motivated, excited and more positive about everything. it makes such a difference. its like before i even s... read more

One legend of the Buddidt monk who painted (while in a state of raptured mediation) the gate of Sukhavati, the door to the Western Heaven of Amitaba. His masterpiece completed, hung the silken painting upon the wall of his cell. One day while deep in meditation he rose, stepped over to the painting, walked through the gate he himself had painted, and disappeared forever. He had attained Nirvana.
How to interpret this legend? If we depend upon the faculties of the mind alone, the story seems ... read more

Assume that all honest and sincere persons desire Truth. Each in his own way seeks to capture the Real, yet each seeker consciously or unconsciously thwarts his own ends. He does this by imposing the limitations of his own ignorance upon the very Reality which he seeks to discover.

Student number one destroys Truth by declaring that one must practice yoga to discover it. Student number two destroys Truth by affirming that he can discover the Real through the intensive study of chemistry. S... read more

Consciousness has no place in a classical physical universe. It has no role in a universe that runs like a machine. If there were consciousness in such a world, it would indeed be a by-product of materiality-an emergent phenomenom have no more significance that a rock floating in space-dead to everything.

Quantum physics appears to be telling us that what we choose to observe alters, and even creates, what we observe. Thus in a quantum world view, we have choice-something seen as synonymou... read more