*The

Basic Truths Series*

By Dr Kam Yuen *The Art of Living* Living is an art, not a science. If it were a science, we would all be in more of a Bunsen Burner flame, boiling hot water centrifugal spin than we're already in now! Science, in spite of its flamboyant and glamorous status, creates more questions than answers. Do we need to ask and be asked more questions with no answers, or at best a few answers unrelated to the questions? Usually science would have approximately one answer per thousand questions. Given such statistical probability, to have two, or a second answer, science has to formulate an additional thousand questions. By the time, we get answers from science, we will be old and gray as I am now, if not already dead, which I am getting closer to. Sciences answers are not truthful because it needs empirical evidence, whatever that means, before scientists consider anything to be true. Gathering empirical data puts everyone to sleep, including those doing the gathering and interpreting. It is difficult for science to recognize the answer even if the answer has been staring it in the face for decades. The answer is not the truth, because none of their answers are applicable in improving anyones lives, or anything else for that matter Does science really care to get to the truth? It is difficult for science to get to the truth because it doesnt have a sense of humor. The truth is funny! Even stones in caves have changed by the time it takes science to form a single postulate let alone reach a conclusion; carbon molecules would turn into diamonds by the time we get any useful answers from science for us to live by. Every few years, scientific theory gets discarded and reversed until it contradicts its own previous theory. It is difficult for science to make up its mind--- if it even has one. Have I left anything out that would make us want to separate science from the art of living, as we wish to separate religion from government, so at least we can have a certain degree of life and liberty? To improve the art of living, we cant depend on science; it is really technology that improves the standard of living not science. Science gets the credit as medicine gets credit for health, when the standards of health improve through hygienic knowledge and

practice. Under such premises, the art of living finds science to be as unreliable as other human institutions. One should not give science more credence than any other limited human systems of experiences. The art of living seeks to unchain itself from the yoke of science, to be treated as equal to science as all things are equal. There is a science and art of unparalleled development of intuition, unmatched by previous generations, that is setting a new baseline standard for the new and future generations. The art of living takes into consideration our intuitive access to our physical, mental and spiritual being. It is only through intuition we get to the truth; logic can only point us in certain directions. There are infinite possibilities for science to deal with, but it is up to our intuition to choose the exact one that is applicable to the given situation. Otherwise, we cannot siphon the truth out from the midst of untruths. Art is intuition, and science is hard nosed logic with a sinus problem. This new standard of intuition mentioned here can be taught and trained. It gives us the insight, without positive or negative judgment, to know others untruths even though everyone, including all the kings horses, supports infinite untruths as the truth. It is time for people to get off their high wooden horses and smell the aroma of wonton soup, not the chicken soup. We have been led to believe that if everyone holds something to be truth, even if it doesnt do anything, or if it does do something, or if only done by accident or from probability of random chance resolved one time, that we must accept it as always the truth. This is the result of great marketing strategy. If we can get one person out of a hundred better, we can convince everyone that the other 99 would get better, or even have gotten better, which no one else knows about including the person who supposedly has gotten better. There should be no argument about what is and what isnt the truth! Remember, if whatever has been said were truth, it would resolve whatever ails us in our lives more times than once. However, if what has been preached didnt resolve even one ailment of a persons life, then there is no truth to what has been said, even though all the gurus are saying the same as other parrots. Just because everyone is saying the same worded speech doesnt make it the truth. Does having passion, gratitude and intention make that much difference in our lives? Do we care to count the limited number of spiritual laws? Do we need to be motivated and inspired? Do we arrive to the New Age by going backward in time? I will keep you all in suspense until my next or future article! You know what is worse than listen to one parrot? It is having to listen to a whole bunch of them.