We have substantial concerns ... with the definition of 'open formats' in the current proposal.

It's a substantial amount. It's many, many years of supply for current demands.

We don't view this as any kind of setback. We knew that there were some concerns about the proposal.

Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.

We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music we don't do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

It really concerns me that we are losing a great statesman because the current leadership is so unwilling to realize that there are others who are different than them in many ways which is what makes our state great.