How do you become enlightened? I don't know: Luck, karma, skill, friends in high places, friends in low places.

We see an enlightened teacher to gain a sense of humor, to learn balance and proportion and of course to learn wisdom.

I have found in the world of film many movies including Beyond Rangoon, The Crow, Gandhi, Doctor Zhivago, and The Big Blue, a French film, convey similar understandings. I'm sure the list is endless. These are just a few of my favorites.

What creates happiness, peace, and balance is not becoming simply powerful, but knowledgeable.

Interestingly enough, Aurthur C. Clarke once autographed a copy of his book "Rendezvous with Rama" for me.

As you meditate, you will find that consciousness itself will move you beyond time and space and condition into a larger, vaster, more beautiful state of awareness.

Eternity manifests itself in endless ways on endless planes of existence that they call lokas, other dimensions...worlds within worlds.