Conflux No.20

	Gallery 1 The Dance of the Rain
	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.
	Plankton Politics Are Unpredictable No one rules for long in a seawater community
	The Tiredness of the Long-Distance Runner Leaky calcium channels may cause muscle fatigue, and a new drug could boost performance
	Scientists Help Nab Fake Drug Dealers International collaboration, lab work point to source of counterfeit malaria pills
	1.   This no-mind, this pure silence is not a thing, it is not some thing, it is the very life, the very consciousness, the very blissfulness, the eternal being.   2.   Existence is irrational. The moment you ask why you have missed the point.   3.   You don't have to worship anyone else.  Your innermost being is the highest and the most precious, the most existential and conscious point. There is nothing higher than it.   4.   Listen to the message of the rain. It simply is: just be like it. In a silent space, the dance of the rain, the whisper of the bamboos...   5.   Nobody in the whole history of consciousness has been able to say why he is. All that you can do is shrug your shoulders: I am, there is no question of why.   6.   There is no why. You cannot ask the bamboos; you cannot ask the roses; you cannot ask any living being. Life simply is.
	I Hear You, My Monkey Brother A region of the monkey brain responds preferentially to the voices of other monkeys
	Navigating Uncertain Seas New study says researchers lack data to determine whether global warming is redirecting ocean currents
	Device Gives New Meaning to "Power Walking" New knee brace generates electricity from leg movements
	Never fall into the trap of the old religious approach. The religions have always condemned people for such small things, and still they talk about compassion! But the people who are doing small things are just doing them because they are unconscious of their own selves; and they are tired, utterly bored. Out of boredom, somebody becomes alcoholic; out of boredom, somebody starts taking drugs; out of boredom, people commit suicide. But they all need the compassion of those who are aware and alert… From you, the whole world should be showered with love — rain all over the world. Perhaps your joy, your dance, your consciousness may provoke the same in the sleeping ones.                                                                                                            - Osho