By Douglas Sloan

Since the beginning of the scientific revolution in the seventeenth century in the West, three main assumptions about what we can know and how we know have dominated modern thinking and consciousness.  These assumptions have had momentous consequences for all of modern life.  The first assumption is what can be called the quantitative-mechanistic assumption about the ultimate nature of reality.

When enlightening beings expound the Teaching to sentient beings in this way, they practice it themselves. They undertake all practices without laziness, never regressing in what they do, with indomitable courage and energy, not grasping or rejecting all virtues, but able to fulfill all aspects of knowledge-thus they can purify the transcendent practice of vigor.

Sexual attractiveness is based not on looks, but on that radiance which comes from breathing deeply, taking adequate time for rest, eating the right foods at the right time of day, and from keeping your spine and legs as flexible as possible. The best healer is the body itself. If you listen to your body, it will tell you how to heal itself.