Layback Lani | Philosophy of Liberation

  Physicist Brian Cox   ENERGY   According to science energy is neither created nor destroyed – it is eternal and merely conserved . Like the incomprehensible Brahman or Tao – it has no beginning and no end . Energy has always been here (so has Brahman ) and evolution is t he transformation of energy from one form to another but always floating in an ocean of energy . Every joule of energy in the universe was present at the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago . Life does not eat energy – it does not remove it from the universe . Total amount of energy in the universe remains constant . So wi th the Tao - it is eternal and permanent , has no form , is alw ays present and forms the substratum from which phenomena appear .     When energy can be measured it exposes i ts crystallizat ion in form but the form is impermanent and when the form dissolves into its basic constituents energy re turns to the substratum. As time passes every single joule of energy i...

  The Illusion of Effort: A Himalayan Lesson   In the 1970s, I lived in a small stone hut beside a clear stream flowing from the  Dhauladhar  range in Northern India.  I had chosen this particular sanctuary because the land was an abundant laboratory of sacred medicine.  Doob grass ( Cynodon   dactylon ), revered in Ayurveda for its medicinal properties, grew in thick carpets, and Brahmi ( Bacopa  monnieri ), the creeping water hyssop, was everywhere. Brahmi is a crucial  component  of  Medhya  Rasayana  -  a category of brain-rejuvenating medicines used by sages and yogis to stabilize the intellect. For further sustenance, I gathered wild  Kilmora  berries ( Berberis asiatica ) and the vitamin-rich hips of the Himalayan Musk Rose ( Rosa  brunonii ). It was a place of shocking beauty, where the massive peaks of the Himalayas towered above, serving as a constant, inspiring reminder of the Absolute Emptin...