Researchers have found that omega-3 fatty acids in the form of fish oil can often help with breathing problems such as asthma, bronchitis, and emphysema, as well as with numerous other health problems, including heart disease, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, ADD, arthritis, depression, and many more. It is also very important before, during, and after pregnancy. So many of us today live fragmented, unconscious lives driven by fear, guilt, anger, anxiety, and tension. Out of touch with the earth, with never a glance toward the sky, we rush into an imaginary future with little appreciation for the miraculous gift of Now--the only time and place we can truly live. This stress-filled rush into the future creates many problems for us--physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. The breath of life which breathes in each one of us is what one basically calls freedom. In biology it's called Life, in affectivity it's called Love, in psychology it's called Consciousness, and in theology it's called God. The difficulty is to bring these all together within everyone's understanding. The ancient traditions and modern medical research have demonstrated the intimate relationship that exists between how we breathe and our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual lives. There is only one kind of affliction, only one pain -- whether on the mental, physical or spiritual level; there is only one kind, and that is ego. "I am doing this -- this is done by ME," is the only affliction, the only obstacle. "This insult is directed against me -- I am abused thus...." All these happenings accumulate around this I. But when such a vast universe makes no difference to existence, and leaves it unaffected, do I have to allow such insignificant things to affect me? Can I not also remain untouched? Can I not stand aside and say, "The insult given was not given to me"; and, "Whatever I did has been done. I have not done it." If I become a witness to the actions that come to me and proceed from me -- if I cease to be the doer -- then wonderful secrets begin to unfold. The first thing to keep in mind is throughout the day to breathe as totally as possible and, whenever you remember, to inhale as deeply as you can. Hyperoxygenate! The energy you liberate for your work will be in direct proportion to your intake of breath. A great deal of energy lies hidden in your body. It must be aroused and activated towards meditation; it must be channelled into meditation.

In the Classic of purity is written: THE VENERABLE MASTER SAID:
THE SUPREME TAO IS FORMLESS, YET IT PRODUCES AND NURTURES HEAVEN AND EARTH.
THE SUPREME TAO HAS NO DESIRES, YET BY ITS POWER THE SUN AND MOON REVOLVE IN THEIR ORBITS.
THE SUPREME TAO IS NAMELESS, YET IT EVER SUPPORTS ALL THINGS.
I DO NOT KNOW ITS NAME BUT FOR TITLE CALL IT TAO.
THE CLASSIC OF PURITY is one of the most profound insights into nature. It is an insight, not a doctrine, not a philosophy, not a religion, because it is not intellectual at all; it is existential. The man who is speaking in it is not speaking as a mind, he is not speaking as himself either; he is just an empty passage for existence itself to say something through him. That's how the great mystics have always lived and spoken. These are not their own words -- they are no more. They have disappeared long before; it is the whole pouring through them. Their expressions may be different, but the source is the same. The words of Chuang Tzu, Zarathustra, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Krishna, and Lieh Tzu are not ordinary words; they are not coming from their memory, they are coming from their experience. They have touched the divine, and the moment you touch the divine you evaporate, you cannot exist any more. You have to die for Tao to be. This is a Taoist insight. Tao is another name for God, far more beautiful than God because God, the word "God", has been exploited too much by the priests. They have exploited in the name of God for so long that even the word has become contaminated -- it has become disgusting. Any man of intelligence is bound to avoid it because it reminds him of all the nonsense that has happened on the earth down the ages in the name of God, in the name of religion. More mischief has happened in the name of God than in any other name. Tao in that sense is tremendously beautiful. You cannot worship Tao because Tao does not give you the idea of a person. It is simply a principle, not a person. You cannot worship a principle -- you cannot pray to Tao. It will look ridiculous; it will be utterly absurd, praying to a principle. You don't pray to gravitation, you cannot pray to the theory of relativity.

There is no need to find any esoteric meaning in jokes. They are simple. But it is difficult to accept any simple thing.
Pope John Paul II of Rome is arriving at Heaven's door. St. Peter opens, asks for his name and shakes his head, "Never heard."
'So go to God-father, he will recognize me," the Pope demanded.
Off St. Peter went. "Hey Boss, do you know a man called Pope John Paul II of Rome?"
"Never heard of him," is God-father's answer.
Peter, back at Heaven's door: "He doesn't know you."
"So go and ask Jesus."
St. Peter, already a little impatient, went off again: "Hey Junior, do you know a man called Pope John Paul II of Rome?"
Junior: "Never heard, never seen him."
Off St. Peter went to tell the desperate Pope the message." Do me a last favour," said the Pope, "ask the Holy Ghost."
Peter sighed and back in Heaven he called the Holy Ghost: "Hello Smoky, do you know Pope John Paul II of Rome?"
Smoky, murmuring: "Pope John Paul, Pope John Paul II of Rome... send him to Hell! That's the guy who told that dirty story about Mary and me!"
This was the man who invented the story of how Mary became pregnant -- without ever being in love with any man. There are PUNDITS and scholars, but remember: nobody will recognize you at Heaven's gate.
Theories are just futile, but the mind craves and the mind wants to spin -- around anything!
A man was making love to a woman on the sea beach. And then the policeman came and said, "Are you mad or something? She is dead! What are you doing?"
He said, "My God! I thought she was Indian!"
The Indian woman has to just be there, not doing anything. She has not to show any signs of joy. If a woman really becomes orgasmic she will wake up the whole neighbourhood!

A small poem (doka, sutra) of the Zen master, Ikkyu:
ALL THE SINS COMMITTED
IN THE THREE WORLDS
WILL FADE AND DISAPPEAR
TOGETHER WITH MYSELF:
The moment you know that you are not, then all that you have done in the past, are doing in the present, or will be doing in the future, has also disappeared. When the doer disappears, the doings have disappeared.
In the East, people have been too much concerned with karmas, actions. They have been very much afraid because whatever bad things they have done in the past, they have to pay for them, they have to suffer for them.
Ikkyu is giving you a great key: Don't be afraid -- because YOU ARE NOT, so you have not done anything! How can you do? Because in the first place you are not. He is taking the very ground from underneath your feet -- with it, all disappears.
ALL THE SINS COMMITTED
IN THE THREE WORLDS
WILL FADE AND DISAPPEAR
TOGETHER WITH MYSELF:
So the only thing is to go deep into yourself and to see your nothingness. You need not do good things to weigh against the bad things that you have done. You are not to go and do good deeds -- because whether you do bad or good, you remain in the illusion of a doer. See the difference!
Ordinary religions teach you to be moral, do good, avoid sins. Remember those Ten Commandments -- they consist of the ordinary religion: Don't do this, do that. The extraordinary religion says: Disappear as a doer -- don't be bothered about doing good or bad. And who knows what is good and what is bad?
In fact, nothing is good and nothing is bad, because existence is one -- how can there be two?