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All this (and more) would create the perfect life. And living the perfectly delicious life of no suffering, you’d be the perfect you!!! Really? Remember, the King tried this with young Siddhartha who lived in ultimate luxury in a pleasure palace with the most beautiful woman and servants attending to every want, need and desire. Didn’t work. He split and became Buddha. Creating your reality the way you want it has obvious appeal for pretty much everyone. With such omnipotent power you could control your world and thus be free from all the nasty surprises that turn a good day into hell. But does it really work that way? My hypothesis is: it does not. Look at the people who have achieved everything. Many seem miserable, often to the point of suicide. Personally, I can attest to the fact that scaling the mountain of money and success is good and all, but at the top, I’m still me. I still get pissed when someone cuts me off in traffic. I still get sad when someone trashes my wife on Facebook. And furious when I see the lying, cheating, greed, and stealing that runs our world. The statement: If I could create life according to my wishes, I would not suffer is simply not true. You will probably suffer less. But suffering will still find you. And you’ll have to deal with it. 28 www.yogicherald.com Oct./Nov. 2019 About Author William Arntz is a physicist, software entrepreneur, filmmaker and author. He wrote simulators for the early Star Wars program, created software that the Fortune 500 world runs on, created the What the BLEEP Do We Know!? movie and books and co-created the book of visionary prophesies –The (not so) Little Book of Surprises - with Deirdre Hade .