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In the beginning was the Logos,
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the Big Bang, the primordial Om.
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Big Bang theory says that the physical universe
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spiraled out of an unimaginably hot and dense
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single point called a singularity - billions
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of times smaller than the head of a pin.
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It does not say why or how. The more mysterious
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something is, the more we take for granted
that
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we understand it.
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It was thought that eventually gravity would
either
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slow the expansion or contract the universe
in a big
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crunch. However, images from the Hubble space
telescope
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show that the universe's expansion seems to
be actually
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accelerating. Expanding faster and faster
as it grows
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out of the Big Bang. Somehow, there is more
mass in the
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universe than physics predicted. To account
for the missing mass,
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physicists now say that the universe consists
of only 4% atomic matter
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or what we consider normal matter. 23% of
the universe is dark matter
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and 73% is dark energy -what we previously
though of as empty space.
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It is like an invisible nervous system that
runs throughout the universe
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connecting all things.
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The ancient Vedic teachers taught Nada Brahma
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the universe is vibration.
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The vibratory field is at the root of all
true spiritual experience
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and scientific investigation.
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It is the same field of energy that saints,
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Buddhas, yogis, mystics, priests, shamans
and seers have observed
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by looking within themselves. It has been
called Akasha, the Primordial Om,
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Indra's net of jewels, the music of the spheres,
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and a thousand other names throughout history.
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It is the common root of all religions,
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and the link between our inner worlds and
our outer worlds.
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In Mahayana Buddhism in the third century
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they described a cosmology not unlike the
most advanced
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physics of modern day.
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Indra's net of jewels is a metaphor used to
describe
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a much older Vedic teaching which illustrates
the way the fabric of the
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universe is woven together.
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Indra, the king of the gods, gave birth to
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the sun and moves the winds and the waters.
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Imagine a spider web that extends into all
dimensions.
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The web is made up of dew drops
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and every drop contains the reflection of
all the other
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water drops, and in each reflected dew drop
you will find
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the reflections of all the other droplets.
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The entire web, in that reflection and so
on,
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to infinity.
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Indra's web could be described as a holographic
universe,
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where even the smallest stream of light
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contains the complete pattern of the whole.
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The Serbian-American scientist, Nikola Tesla,
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is sometimes referred to as the man who invented
the
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20th century.
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Tesla was responsible for discovering alternating
current
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electricity and many other creations
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that are now part of every-day life.
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Because of his interest in the ancient Vedic
traditions,
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Tesla was in a unique position to understand
science
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through both an eastern and western model.
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Like all great scientists, Tesla looked deeply
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into the mysteries of the outer world,
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but he also looked deeply within himself.
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Like the ancient yogis, Tesla used the term
Akasha
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to describe the etheric feel that extends
throughout all things.
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Tesla studied with Swami Vivekananda, a yogi
who brought the ancient
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teachings of India to the West.
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In the Vedic teachings, Akasha is space itself;
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the space that the other elements fill,
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which exists simultaneously with vibration.
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The two are inseparable. Akasha is yin to
prana's yang.
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A modern concept that can help us to conceptualize
Akasha,
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or the primary substance, is the idea of fractals.
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It wasn't until the 1980s that advances in
computers
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allowed us to actually visualize and reproduce
mathematically
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the patterns in nature.
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The term fractal was coined in 1980
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by mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot
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who studied certain simple mathematic equations
that,
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when they are repeated, produce an unending
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array of changing mathematical or geometrical
forms
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within a limited framework.
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They are limited, but at the same time, infinite.
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A fractal is a rough geometric shape
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that can be split into parts, each of which
is approximately
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a reduced sized copy of the whole pattern
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a property called self similarity.
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Mandelbrot's fractals have been called
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the thumbprint of God.
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You are seeing artwork generated by nature
itself.
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If you turn the Mandelbrot figure a certain
way,
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it looks sort of like a Hindu deity or a Buddha.
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This figure has been termed
the "Buddhabrot" figure.
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If you look at some forms of ancient art and
architecture,
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you will see that humans have long associated
beauty
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and the sacred with fractal patterns.
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Infinitely complex, yet every part contains
the seed
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to recreate the whole.
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Fractals have changed mathematicians' views
of the universe
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and how it operates.
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With each new level of magnification,
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there are differences from the original.
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Constant change and transformation occurs
as we traverse
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from one level of fractal detail to another.
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This transformation is the cosmic spiral.
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The embedded intelligence of the matrix of
time space.
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Fractals are inherently chaotic-full of noise
and order.
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When our minds recognize or define a pattern,
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we focus on it as if it is a thing.
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We try to find the patterns we see as beautiful,
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but in order to hold the patterns in our minds,
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we must push away the rest of the fractal.
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To comprehend a fractal with the senses
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is to limit its movement.
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All energy in the universe is neutral,
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timeless, dimensionless.
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Our own creativity and capacity for pattern
recognition
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is the link between the microcosm and macrocosm.
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The timeless world of waves and the solid
world of things.
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Observation is an act of creation through
limitations
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inherent in thinking.
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We are creating the illusion of solidity,
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of things by labeling, by naming.
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The philosopher Kierkegaard said,
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"If you name me, you negate me."
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By giving me a name, a label, you negate all
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the other things I could possibly be.
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You lock the particle into being a thing
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by pinning it down, naming it,
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but at the same time you are creating it,
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defining it to exist.
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Creativity is our highest nature.
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With the creation of things comes time,
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which is what creates the illusion of solidity.
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Einstein was the first scientist to realize
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that what we think of as empty space is not
nothing,
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it has properties,
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and intrinsic to the nature of space
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is nearly unfathomable amounts of energy.
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The renowned physicist Richard Feynman once
said,
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"there is enough energy in a single cubic
meter
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of space to boil all the oceans in the world."
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Advanced meditators know that in the stillness
lies
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the greatest power.
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The Buddha had yet another term for the primary
substance;
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what he termed kalapas, which are like tiny
particles
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or wavelets that are arising and passing away
trillions
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of times per second. Reality is, in this sense,
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like a series of frames in a holographic film
camera
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moving quickly as to create the illusion of
continuity.
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When consciousness becomes perfectly still,
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the illusion is understood
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because it is consciousness itself that drives
the illusion.
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In the ancient traditions of the East,
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it has been understood for thousands of years
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that all is vibration.
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"Nada Brahma" - the universe is sound.
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The word "nada" means sound or vibration
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and "Brahma" is the name for God.
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Brahma, simultaneously IS the universe and
IS the creator.
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The artist and the art are inseparable.
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In the Upanishads,
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one of the oldest humans records in ancient
India,
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it is said "Brahma the creator, sitting on
a lotus,
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opens his eyes and a world comes into being.
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Brahma closes his eyes,
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and a world goes out of being."
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Ancient mystics, yogis and seers
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have maintained that there is a field
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at the root level of consciousness.
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The Akashic field or the Akashic records
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where all information, all experience past,
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present and future, exists now and always.
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It is this field or matrix
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from which all things arise.
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From sub-atomic particles, to galaxies,
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stars, planets and all life.
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You never see anything in its totality
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because it is made up of layer upon layer
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of vibration and it is constantly
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changing, exchanging information with Akasha.
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A tree is drinking in the sun, the air,
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the rain, the Earth.
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A world of energy moves in and out
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of this thing we call a tree.
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When the thinking mind is still,
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then you see reality as it is.
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All aspects together.
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The tree and the sky and the Earth,
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the rain and the stars are not separate.
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Life and death, self and other are not separate.
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Just as the mountain and the valley are inseparable.
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In the native American
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and other indigenous traditions
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it is said that every thing has spirit
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which is simply another way of saying
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everything is connected to the one vibratory
source.
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There is one consciousness, one field,
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one force that moves through all.
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This field is not happening around you,
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it is happening THROUGH you
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and happening AS you.
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You are the "U" (you) in universe.
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You are the eyes through which creation sees
itself.
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When you wake from a dream you realize that
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everything in the dream was you.
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You were creating it.
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So called real life is no different.
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Every one and every thing is you.
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The one consciousness looking out of every
eye,
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under every rock, within every particle.
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International researchers at CERN,
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the European laboratory for particle physics,
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are searching for this field
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that extends throughout all things.
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But instead of looking within,
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they look to the outer physical world.
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Researchers at the CERN laboratory in Geneva,
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Switzerland announced that they had found
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the Higgs Boson, or the God Particle.
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The Higgs Boson experiments prove scientifically
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that an invisible energy field fills the vacuum
of space.
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CERN's large hadron collider consists of a
ring
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17 miles in circumference, in which two beams
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of particles race in opposite directions,
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converging and smashing together at nearly
the
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speed of light.
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Scientists observe what comes out of the
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violent collisions.
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The standard model can not account for
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how particles get their mass.
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Everything appears to be made of vibration
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but there is no 'thing' being vibrated.
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It is as if there has been an invisible dancer,
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a shadow dancing hidden in the ballet of the
universe.
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All the other dancers have always danced
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around this hidden dancer.
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We have observed the choreography of
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the dance, but until now we could not see
that dancer.
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The so-called "God Particle",
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the properties of the base material of the
universe,
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the heart of all matter which would account
for the
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unexplained mass and energy that drives the
universe's expansion.
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But far from explaining the nature of the
universe,
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the discovery of the Higgs Boson simply presents
an
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even greater mystery, revealing a universe
that is
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even more mysterious than we ever imagined.
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Science is approaching the threshold between
consciousness
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and matter.
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The eye with which we look at the primordial
field
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and the eye with which the field looks at
us
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are one and the same.
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The German writer and luminary Wolfgang Von
Goethe said,
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"the wave is the primordial phenomenon
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which gave rise to the world."
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Cymatics is the study of visible sound.
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The word cymatic comes from the Greek root
"cyma"
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which means wave or vibration.
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One of the first Western scientists to seriously
study
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wave phenomenon was Ernst Chladni,
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a German musician and physicist,
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who lived in the eighteenth century.
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Chladni discovered that when he spread sand
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on metal plates and then vibrated the plates
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with a violin bow, the sand arranged itself
into patterns.
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Different geometrical forms appeared
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depending on the vibration produced.
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Chladni recorded an entire catalogue
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of these shapes and they are referred to as
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Chladni Figures.
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Many of these patterns can be found throughout
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the natural world. Such as the markings of
the tortoise
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or the spot patterns of the leopard.
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Studying Chladni Patterns or cymatic patterns
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is one secret way in which high-end guitar,
violin
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and other instrument makers determine the
sound qualities of the instruments they make.
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Hans Jenny expanded on Chladni's work in the
1960's
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using various fluids and electronic amplification
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to generate sound frequencies and coined the
term "cymatics".
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If you run simple sine waves through a dish
of water,
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you can see patterns in the water.
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Depending on the frequency of the wave,
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different ripple patterns will appear.
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The higher the frequency, the more complex
the pattern.
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These forms are repeatable, not random.
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The more you observe,
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the more you start to see how
vibration arranges matter into complex forms
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from simple repeating waves.
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This water vibration has a pattern similar
to a sunflower.
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Simply by changing the sound frequency,
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we get a different pattern.
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Water is a very mysterious substance.
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It is highly impressionable.
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That is, it can receive and hold onto vibration.
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Because of its high resonance capacity
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and sensitivity and an inner readiness to
resonate,
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the water responds instantaneously to all
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types of sonic waves.
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Vibrating water and earth
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make up the majority of mass in plants and
animals.
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It is easy to observe how simple vibrations
in water
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can create recognizable natural patterns
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but as we add solids and increase the amplitude,
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things get even more interesting.
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Adding cornstarch to water,
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we get more complex phenomena.
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Perhaps the principles of life itself
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can be observed as vibrations move the cornstarch
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blob into what appears to be a moving organism.
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The animating principle of the universe
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is described in every major religion
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using words that reflect the understanding
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of that time in history.
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In the language of the Incas,
the largest empire in pre-Columbian America,
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the word for "human body" is "alpa camasca"
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which means literally, "animated earth".
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In Kaballah, or Jewish Mysticism,
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they talk about the divine name of God.
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The name that can not be spoken.
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It can not be spoken because it is a vibration
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that is everywhere. It is all words, all matter.
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Everything is the sacred word.
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The tetrahedron is the simplest shape
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that can exist in three dimensions.
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Something must have at least four points
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to have physical reality.
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The triangle structure is nature's only
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self-stabilizing pattern.
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In the Old Testament the word "tetragrammaton"
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was often used to represent a certain manifestation
of God.
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It was used when talking about the word of
God
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or the special name of God, Logos or primordial
word.
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The ancient civilizations knew that at the
root structure
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of the universe was the tetrahedral shape.
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Out of this shape, nature exhibits a fundamental
drive
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toward equilibrium; Shiva.
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While it also has a fundamental drive towards
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change; Shakti.
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In the Bible, the gospel of John usually reads,
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"in the beginning was the word"
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but in the original text the term used was
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"Logos".
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The Greek philosopher Heraclitus,
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who lived around 500 years before Christ,
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referred to the Logos as something
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fundamentally unknowable.
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The origin of all repetition, pattern and
form.
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The Stoic philosophers who followed the teachings
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of Heraclitus identified the term with
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the divine animating principle pervading the
universe.
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In Sufism the Logos is everywhere and in all
things.
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It is THAT out of which the unmanifest becomes
manifest.
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In the Hindu tradition Shiva Nataraja literally
means
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"lord of the dance".
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The whole cosmos dances to Shiva's drum.
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All is imbued or ensouled with the pulsation.
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Only as long as Shiva is dancing
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can the world continue to evolve and change,
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otherwise it collapses back into nothingness.
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While Shiva is representative of our
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witnessing consciousness, Shakti is the substance
or stuff of the world.
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While Shiva lies in meditation,
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Shakti tries to move him,
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to bring him into the dance.
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Like yin and yang,
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the dancer and the dance exist as one.
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Logos also means unconcealed truth.
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He who knows the Logos, knows the truth.
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Many layers of concealment exist
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in the human world as Akasha as been swirled
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into complex structures
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concealing the source from itself.
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Like a divine game of hide and seek,
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we have been hiding for thousands of years,
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eventually forgetting about the game completely.
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We somehow forgot that there is anything to
find.
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In Buddhism, one is taught to directly perceive
the Logos,
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the field of change or impermanence within
oneself
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through meditation.
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When you observe your inner world,
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you observe subtler and subtler sensations
and energies
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as the mind becomes more concentrated and
focused.
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Through the direct realization of "annica"
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or impermanence at the root level of sensation,
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one becomes free of attachment to transient
external forms.
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Once we realize there is one vibratory field
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that is the common root of all religions,
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how can we say "my religion" or "this is my
primordial Om",
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"my quantum field"?
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The true crisis in our world is not social,
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political or economic.
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Our crisis is a crisis of consciousness,
an inability to directly experience our true
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nature.
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An inability to recognize this nature in everyone
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and in all things.
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In the Buddhist tradition, the "Bodhisattva"
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is the person with an awakened Buddha nature.
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A Bodhisattva vows to help to awaken every
being
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in the universe, realizing that there is only
one consciousness.
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To awaken one's true self one must awaken
all beings.
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"There are innumerable sentient beings in
the universe
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I vow to help them all to awaken.
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My imperfections are inexhaustible.
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I vow to overcome them all.
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The Dharma is unknowable.
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I vow to know it.
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The way of awakening is unattainable.
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I vow to attain it."