Yoda Sutras: Confluence No.2

Reader 1

Where Freedom Blossoms

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.

Any science fiction aficionado

has seen it all before:

beaming through walls,

riding in starships

that move faster than light,

or traveling instantly

to distant places

in space and time.

These ideas aren’t

just creative fantasies, though;

they emerge from theoretical physics,

especially the work

of Albert Einstein,

whose vision included a universe

that curves back on itself

in three dimensions of space

and a fourth,

invisible dimension of time.

The eyes reflect

not only

the outside world,

they also reflect

your inner world:

how deep you are,

whether you are

just a surface,

a thin layer of water

that shimmers,

or an ocean.

A nanomachine is

an incredibly tiny device

whose parts consist of

single molecules.

Nature uses nanomachines

for everything from

photosynthesis to

moving muscles in the body

and transferring information

through cells.

Scientists are trying

to unravel the secrets

of nanomachines

and nanotechnology,

which works

on the tiniest scale.

At the very center

of your being

is the door

of the kingdom of God.

You don't even have to

open it;

it is open,

it is waiting.

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet

contains 700,000 cubic miles of ice —

enough to fill

hundreds upon hundreds of Grand Canyons.

And if that ice melted,

it could raise sea levels

by 15 feet.

That’s high enough to put

much of Florida and the Netherlands

under water.

Only if we understand

the basic rules that

Antarctica’s ice sheets

live by

can we predict

what will happen to them

as the climate warms.

Don't spare anything.

You have nothing to lose

by going

deeper into yourself,

but everything to gain.

According to a new study,

preschool boys perform better

on tests that measure learning

and other important skills

when they are in classes

that have more girls than boys.

The pattern doesn't seem

to hold for girls, though.

For preschool girls,

the presence or absence of boys

did not affect learning.

I am not asking

anything from you,

just trying to

take away

that which you are not

and consistently forcing

on you

that which you are.

Mars may be home

to the solar system’s

largest impact crater,

hidden below lava.

The impact itself

may have given Mars

its unusual "two faces" —

a high, cratered crust

in the southern hemisphere

and smooth, low crust

in the north.

Before you can be

really independent

you have to know

who you are,

who it is

beating in your heart;

you have to know

the universal element,

the existential part

of your being.

Artificial sweeteners

stimulate the same cells

in our tongues

as sugar does.

Thanks to the

substitutes' chemistry,

however,

they are hundreds to

tens of thousands of times

as sweet as sugar.

That means that

far less of them

is required

to make something.

The whole effort here

is to bring you

to a point

where freedom blossoms.

A thousand times you have changed at many junctions. In many forms you have appeared in the world — sometimes as a tree and sometimes as a rose bush and sometimes as an eagle. The Eastern clarity arising out of enlightenment does not believe in evolution in the sense that it is understood by Charles Darwin. It gives equality to all that is living in existence. You are not superior to the rose bush or the eagle.

- Osho