At a certain point one replaces these lower addictions with higher ones -- God, ecology, evolution (self or planetary), mercy, goodness, and faith, or whatever. Once again the details may vary as will the mileage. Mine took me a distance, then out of gas I ran. Now I seem have relegated to the task of working in the face of pointlessness. I don't really believe that any of these efforts will be used for the good of all beings everywhere or for any other beings as far as that goes. For the most part, I wish without hope. Every now and then I'm surprised by feedback from a corner of the universe that in some small way my efforts have been of benefit.

It is an utterly odd spot which I do not recommend for anyone.

But if you do find yourself in this condition there's a few tricks which might be of some benefit.

A very good friend and teach I knew while attending undergraduate school was dismissed from the Harvard chemistry department because he spent too much time with students. He was supposed to spend little or no time with students and all of his time doing research. It was research which brought the big bucks into Harvard. Teaching was of secondary consideration. This many was brilliant. Chess master, solved New York crossword puzzles as fast as he could write, literary in any field you cared to delve, off-the-charts at Mensa. Thing is he had no burning questions of his own. He preferred to help others explore their questions. This was one of the first times that the prospect of borrowing necessity from others presented itself to me.

Since then I have developed a habit, if you will, of taking on others necessity. Recently I wrote a program so that Yanesh would not have such a hard time of it responding to her zillions of Ebay end of auction responses. The program is called Hot-RSVP and worked out rather well. Even though I hope to sell this program commercially now that is not how or why it was written. My only goal was to make the suffering which Yanesh was going through a little lighter. It wasn't even her own suffering. She's not selling on Ebay for herself. She is doing it on behalf of the Institute.

Having some reality on the value of Bardo Gaming I have taken on a responsibility to see that it is made available. Marketing is not really my forte. (My normal destiny is more toward University level teaching and research. If not for a sense of morality I could easily still be doing government research. But I don't like bullies or brutes.) As I was saying before I so rudely interrupted myself, marketing is not really my forte. But it needs be done, and hopefully can be done from a slightly more enlightened perspective than one would typically encounter. After all, in this type of marketing we are not after sales and the income they would generate. Rather we are after availability and presentation. If everyone who could benefit from Bardo Training is shown the existence of this technology in a way in which they understand (not a way determined by the marketers background) then perhaps we can rest that much easier that folks have been given a chance to avail themselves of this technology as they see fit. Not everyone will benefit from Bardo Gaming. Let's say that out of the 6 billion plus people on this planet 5,000 will truly benefit from Bardo Gaming. That is still a lot of folks when you consider that these 5,000 are not your typical type folks. They don't read The Globe, they can't be reached through an ad in the LA Times personals. Or can they?

Sorry about getting off the track. We were talking about your burning question -- or lack there of. Maybe like the man who has lost a key in the alley and is looking for it under the street lamp (because the light is better), perhaps you could look under a lamp of a different sort.