If you know anything about quantum physics,

you'll understand why the treasure you've been longing for

has already been changed by your pursuit of it.

It's no longer what it was

when you felt your first pangs of desire.

Now, in order to make this prized experience yours,

you'll have to modify your ideas about it.

Fortunately,

you've come to the Televisionary Oracle

at exactly the right time

to get help in doing just that.

In Tibetan Buddhism's "Four Dignities of the Warrior's Path," which the Televisionary Oracle has borrowed for its own use, courage and ferocity are absent. In fact, the qualities regarded as essential have nothing in common with the training regimens of football players or Marines or lobbyists.

The first dignity is translated in English as meekness, but that word doesn't convey its full meaning. "Relaxed confidence" is a more precise formulation. A humble feeling of being at home in one's body.

Perkiness, or hard-earned, unabashed joy, is the second dignity. To develop it, the warrior diligently drives out the self-indulgence of cynicism.

The third is outrageousness. It combines a delight in daring experiments with a passionate objectivity that is free of both hope and fear.

The fourth dignity is inscrutability, which demands a supple willingness to be unpredictable in carrying out one's moral vision.

The Televisionary Oracle

is brought to you by the state of mind

poet John Keats inhabited when he said,

"If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true."