When you combine a media - bent on exploiting tabloid-type stories to boost ratings and circulation by innuendo and titillation - with unhappy or opportunistic individuals who have nothing going for them in their own lives, you get a bitter brew.

Take chaotic mathematics, for instance. The universe is chaos. But chaos is whimping out. There is no chaos. There are just different levels of order in the universe.

One of my greatest personal heroes is Jerry Lopez. When you can snowboard like he surfs, you'll be there!

I would recommend, initially, if you are trying to increase your personal power level, to meditate on the navel center, not the lower two.

After several minutes, picture that your entire body is merging with the blue sky. Feel that you have become the infinite blue sky that stretches endlessly in every direction.

It is the Buddhist belief that at every moment the universe is not only dying but being reborn.

Love the fading flowers as much as you love the undifferentiated which lasts forever.