Yoda Sutras: Confluence No.5

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Because You Are the Answer

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.

A strange metal brew

lies buried deep within

giant gaseous planets such as

Jupiter and Saturn.

A new study demonstrates

that metallic helium is

less rare than was

previously thought,

and is produced

under the kinds of conditions

present at the centers of

giant gaseous planets

such as Jupiter and Saturn,

mixing with metal hydrogen

to form a liquid metal alloy.

Be silent.

Gather yourself inwards.

Close your eyes.

No movement.

Just be.

For the first time,

researchers have shown that

the pre-hatching calls

of baby Nile crocodiles

actually mean something

to their siblings and

to their mothers.

The calls --

which are perfectly audible

to humans and sound like

"umph! umph! umph!" --

tell the others in the nest

that it's time to hatch.

Those cries also tell

the mother croc

to start digging up the nest.

Feel it,

rejoice in it.

This moment

contains eternity.

Researchers have developed

a new,

highly-advanced

walking robot: Flame.

This type of research

is important as it provides

insight into how people walk.

This can in turn help people

with walking difficulties

through improved diagnoses,

training and

rehabilitation equipment.

Deep down

you don't have a problem

at all,

because you are the answer.

How can you

have a problem?

Dyslexia is a learning difficulty

affecting the development

of literacy and

language-related skills

such as reading and spelling.

It does not affect intelligence

and affects as many

as an estimated one in 10 people.

You are born as innocence.

Innocence has

immense clarity

to see the wonder that

surrounds you.

People with more

of adiponectin, a hormone

secreted by body's fat cells,

in their blood are known

to have a lower risk

of colon cancer,

but the body's mechanism

for controlling

adiponectin secretion

by cells is unclear.

The hormone suppresses

inflammation of blood vessels,

can raise

the body's metabolic rate,

and is known to lower

the risk of colon and

breast cancer.

Return to your inner being.

There is nothing else

to be said.

The deadly AIDS virus

first began spreading

among humans

at the turn of the 20th century

in sub-Saharan Africa,

just as modern cities

were emerging in the region.

New findings push back

the origin of

the human immunodeficiency virus

(HIV)

by several decades.

Prior estimates put

the origin of HIV

at 1930.

Researchers now believe

HIV began infecting

humans between 1884 and 1924.

A man of enlightenment

never dies,

never transmigrates either.

Transmigration is

for the ignorant,

from one form

into another form,

from one animalhood

to another animalhood.

Mind is nothing but another name for questioning. You can try a small thing as an experiment. If you go backwards in time, you will stop somewhere near the age of three or four. Beyond that your memory has not recorded anything. It simply means the first three or four years you lived in tremendous innocence, surrounded by the beauty of the world, of the people, of the trees, of the ocean; not asking why, but simply being together with whatever surrounds you, enjoying, rejoicing, dancing. Mind has not come in yet. Our whole educational system is programmed to create the mind in you and to destroy the wonder, to destroy the poetry of your life and to force you to understand the prose and the prosaic.

- Osho