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all the material things they possess to prove it. It doesn't
sound like a true life goal to me!

The reality is that none of it will do anything to help with
what is really important to our lives here on earth. In fact
the lifestyle does nothing but hinder our ability to seek
enlightenment.

Please do not get me wrong. I like nice things as much as
the next person. And of course I enjoy living in a clean, dry
place and having a decent way to get around. Of course we
enjoy doing fun things and being with fun people and these
things are not always free. So this is one of the places, and
there are many, where the universal concept of balance
comes into play.

The Concept of Universal Balance

We've all heard of the Ying and Yang, and how important
balance is to some Asian (and other) cultures, and how
important balance can be to everyday life, as well as the
world around us. Well, I think they were on to something.
When the big-bang happened, mass and energy settled into
a form which was created by the natural balancing of all
essential basic elements in a void, all affected apparently by
not-yet completely explainable gravitational force. Because
of this natural and universal balancing act, there became a
preponderance of stability between energy and mass, as
well as areas that exhibited great outpouring of fusion-
based energy like stars. There are plenty of other examples
of dynamism in the universe, but balance, when it exists,
was to some level attained and is retained, and without it,
none of us would be here. Our earth is a great physical
example of this, with its "Goldilocks" climate, presence an
of oxygen-based atmosphere, and a magnetic pole-based

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