Yoda Sutras: Concourse No.10

Series 1

II - 1: You Cannot Miss It

Mind is a tangled web.

Use it to catch the world.

Try to comprehend the infinite complexity of it all…

…elegantly embedded in the fabric of space and time.

Open your eyes in amazement.

Be Aware.

See.

Ocean:

Temperature Patterns

Cores retrieved from the sediment of the deep ocean floor provide evidence of changes in ocean temperature as well as oceanic and atmospheric circulation patterns dating back 170 million years. The temperature of surface and bottom waters can be measured by studying the fossilized shells and skeletons of ancient plankton (microscopic marine life living near the ocean's surface) and benthonic organisms (marine life of the deep ocean). Scientists use a method called oxygen isotope stratigraphy, in which they compare the temperature-controlled ratio of two oxygen isotopes that were incorporated into the shells as the shells grew. This ratio is preserved in the fossilized organisms.

Think.

History: Archimedes’ Screw

Learn.

Archimedes’ Screw is one of the earliest kinds of pump, thought to have been invented about 250 BC by Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes. It consists of an enormous spiral screw revolving inside a close-fitting cylinder. One of its most important uses is the raising of water for irrigation. The Archimedes’ screw has been widely used over the centuries to raise irrigation water and for land drainage.

Imagine.

Understand.

Astronomy:

Dwarf Planets

In 2006 the International Astronomical Union (IAU) designated a new category of solar system objects called dwarf planets. The dividing line between asteroids and dwarf planets is still being clarified. Dwarf planets have rounded shapes but are not massive enough to clear other bodies from around their orbits. Major or “classical” planets had enough mass to clear their neighborhoods of small bodies, either by pulling such objects in as the planets formed or by throwing the small bodies into distant orbits or out of the solar system. Dwarf planets orbit the Sun in regions of the solar system that contain swarms of small bodies such as the asteroid belt or the Kuiper Belt.

Explore.

Investigate.

Experiment.

Electricity: Fault-current Limiters

Fault-current limiters protect power grids from sudden spikes in power, much like household surge protectors are used to save televisions and computers from damage during a lightning strike. Limiting fault currents is becoming an increasingly critical issue for large urban utilities, since these currents grow along with growing electric power loads. Superconductors enable a novel and very promising type of fault current limiter — or “firewall” — that rapidly switches to a resistive state when current exceeds the superconductors’ critical current. At the same time, in normal operation, the superconductors’ near-zero AC resistance minimizes power loss and makes the fault current limiter effectively “invisible” in the electric grid.

Analyze.

Know.

Study.

Ecology:

Ecosystems of Islands

Human colonization has had a massive impact on ecosystems of islands, with the introduction of new, exotic plants and animals. In New Zealand, for example, there were about 2,000 native species of plants. Since colonization, about 2,000 new plant species have become naturalized. Over the same period, there have been few plant extinctions, so the net effect is that humans have transformed New Zealand's landscape by bringing in so many new species. The dramatic increase in the number of species has changed how the system functions.

Innovate.

Ponder.

Perceive.

Create.

Brain: Neocortex

Penetrate.

What is it that distinguishes humans from other mammals? The answer to this question lies in the neocortex – the part of the brain responsible for sensory perceptions, conscious thought, and language. Humans have a considerably larger neocortex than other mammals. One theory suggests that humans have a higher cognition because we have larger cells and a more complex circuitry in the neocortex. Another theory claims that our higher cognition is due to different types of cells in the neocortex – cells that other mammals don't have.

Wonder…

But Beware!

Don't get caught in the mighty maze of your own mind.

_________Transcend._________

Atha Yodanushasanam

Now begins the teaching of Yoda.

God is now — and no other time there is. There is no other space, no other time. This moment is all. In this moment the whole existence converges, in this moment all is available.

When you have come to your innermost core, to the innermost core of existence itself you have come.

On its own accord life is moving in a harmony. There is nobody outside it giving it commandments.

The isness of life is God: the isness of a tree, the isness of a rock, the isness of a star, the isness of a man, the isness of a woman, the isness of a child. And an undefined phenomenon is that isness, undefinable.

Don't bring your dreams into reality. Clean your eyes completely of dreams so that what is the case you can see.

The world is one. It is a unity. Nothing is separate. Together everything pulsates. With each other we are joined, interlinked.

People go on asking where God is and just in front of you he is. He surrounds you. He is in and he is out because only he is. Searching for fire you have been with a lighted lantern in your hand.

Life cannot be possessed because life is God. Existence cannot be possessed because existence is God.

You have to become silent so that the dance of God can penetrate you, so that God can vibrate in you.

10.

You have to drop your rush, your hurry, your ideas to go somewhere, to reach, to become, to be this and that. You have to stop becoming. And it is there; you cannot miss it.

11.

If you want to possess God, please don't possess him — and you will possess him.

12.

Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand — relax. If you relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there.

Close your eyes, meditate.

May the force be with you.

There is no way to demystify existence. We call a man who has got the answer, wise, but the real wise man has not got the answer. His questions have disappeared and so have all the answers — he is in a tremendous emptiness.

- Osho