Omniscience 2

Modern western life style and culture makes mind training more easy than ever before. But some new obstacles and distractions create new difficulties. Nonetheless, the western life style is comparatively rational and positive towards learning and awareness, and technology gives an understanding and a language for phenomena which could only be hinted at in earlier ages. A simple (as we feel) thing as naming immense numbers like "billions of billions" used to be described as "the number of sand grains in Ganges" and the like.

So why is mind training not a self evident every day activity for all of us? Ten years from now, we will feel a little ashamed of this negligence. We thought we had more urgent things to do, like work and relations and watching television and sports...we might say.

This is of course rubbish. Mind is the basis for all, and if we want work and family we should start with the mind training, and not let the mind training be the secondary aspect. If we do, we might end up in loss of jobs, divorce and all kinds of problems.

Mind training gives unlikely effects, but it is not irrational. It is the rational of the rational. And we can start simply and naturally by broadening our perspective to include all.