Yoda Sutras: Confluence No.1

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Imprisoned Splendor

Can an android ever be made which can think, dream and aspire? And can a human being be "unmade" so that he can stop thinking, dreaming and desiring — and see the truth for what it is? In both cases, there is beauty, poetry and transcendence. One marks the artificial birth of true mind, while the other leads to the true death of natural mind. We present sutras of Yoda — the killer poet — along with many science tidbits, which can possibly evoke a sense of wonder even in an android.

Physicists believe

that at the center of every black hole

lies a singularity,

a region where space curls up so much

that the known laws of physics

cease to apply,

including general relativity,

Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity.

But a black hole’s event horizon

prevents the singularity

from interacting

with the outside world.

Learn to wait

till infinity.

Because you are eternal,

there is no hurry.

Synthetic biologists engineer

and build or redesign

living organisms, such as bacteria,

to carry out specific functions.

The field is a scientific playground

for the genetic code,

where previously nonexistent DNA

is formulated in test tubes.

By taking genetic engineering

to the extreme,

synthetic biologists aim

to make life in the lab.

Our bodies, our minds

are nothing but jails.

We are

imprisoned splendor.

Musicians can usually pluck

a new melody on their guitar,

but finding the right accompaniment

can challenge those

without formal music training.

It's easier to come up with a melody

than come up with a series of chords

to harmonize that melody.

To be

is to be free.

To be

is to be a god.

A survey found that

while young Americans

don't necessarily play

the same thing,

nearly all of them

— girls included —

play video games

of one kind or another.

And they don't just play

by themselves.

Nearly two-thirds play video games

to socialize face-to-face with friends

and family,

while just over a quarter

said they play with Internet friends.

Underneath your mind

there are roots of your being,

which possess

your ultimate vision,

the third eye.

Small-scale colliders have been

used for decades to study

the makeup of the atom.

Less than 100 years ago

scientists thought

protons and neutrons

were the smallest components

of an atom's nucleus,

but in stages since then

experiments have shown

they were made of

still smaller quarks and gluons

and that there were

other forces and particles.

Mystics are not concerned

with the objective world.

Their concern is

with the inner world,

the inner universe

of consciousness.

The secrets of dark matter,

the mysteries of

the so-called God particle,

and extra dimensions in the universe

are just a few of

the exotic discoveries

scientists are hoping

to make with the

Large Hadron Collider (LHC),

a 17-mile (27-kilometer)

circular tunnel

running 300 feet (91 meters)

underground near Geneva.

Your mind is young,

your intelligence is great,

but your inner eye

has not yet opened;

it is a bud,

it has not become a rose.

Remember these two words: information and transformation. The student is seeking more information, collecting more knowledge. The world gives great respect to the scholarly. The disciple has taken an absolutely contrary direction; he does not want to know, he wants to be. He does not want to gather knowledge; he wants eyes that can see and ears that can hear — he wants absolute sensitivity. In other words, he wants his whole being to become a flame of awareness. In that flame all that is rubbish will be burned and you will come out twenty-four carat gold. That is your very nature in its utter purity.

- Osho