Conflux No.13

	Gallery 1 The Gift of Nature
	One-line abstracts / of science news reports / to flummox your mind / and generate a chaotic flux / of yearning / in your non-existent soul. / And from amidst that chaos / emerge a few beautiful sutras / elucidating the science of the soul. / Yes, the soul does exist, / and only it exists! / That is the whole point.
	Cosmic Cloud on Collision Course Hydrogen beast is closing in on the Milky Way
	High Prices Just Feel Good Anticipation of quality activates our brain's pleasure center
	Evolution of Counting Is No Simple Operation When it comes to tallying objects, some modern languages have become less complex
	1.   To leave the mind and body behind and center your wholeness within, unmoving: This is the greatest blessing that is possible for a man.   2.   Your consciousness covers every other consciousness, it joins hands with the universal consciousness.   3.   There is no other God than your pure consciousness, and your pure consciousness is not yours; it is simply consciousness.   4.   Ultimately you disappear like a dewdrop — the ocean remains. But this disappearance in the ocean is such a benediction, it is the only benediction there is.   5.   Put aside the mind that is given by the society, and bring your innocence — the gift of nature — and disappear into the silence of the sky and the trees.    6.   If your thoughts stop, you stop; then what remains is the divine dance of consciousness.
	A Three-Alarm Jay The danger posed by a nearby predator is revealed in Siberian jay warning calls
	Gene Therapy Cancers Prompt Design of Safer Virus Researchers believe new approach will cure disease without side effects
	The River That Raised a Mountain Tibet's ferocious Yarlung Tsangpo has reshaped a piece of Earth's crust
	If one can say and feel and experience the nature of thusness, tathata, he will not be disturbed by pain, he will not be disturbed by pleasure, he will not be disturbed by failure, he will not be disturbed by success. He will simply say, "Thus is the case. Such is the way things happen in nature. I am just a witness. Right now success is passing in front of me like a cloud. Soon failure will follow, just as day is followed by night. This moment it is pleasure, soon it will bring pain, but I am absolutely aloof — they don't even touch me. I am beyond their grasp."  This is one of the greatest approaches to reality that has come to man's understanding: the idea of ‘thusness’ or ‘suchness’.                                                                                                          - Osho