SUNDAY 3rd MARCH 2013 07:50 GMT

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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (3rd March 1943)
On the Russian Front...
Soviet Kalinin Front captures Rzhev
German 2nd Army withdraws from Lgov and Dimitrov Lgovsky
German II SS Panzer Korps attacks Soviet 3rd Tank Army around Krasnograd
German 1st Panzer Army captures Slavyansk

In the Mediterranean...
Italian vessel Gesu Giuseppe e Maria sunk by RN submarine HMS Torbay

In Tunisia...
German battle group attack around Sedjenane.

In the Atlantic...
German vessel Doggerbank (ex Speybank) mistakenly sunk by U-43
US vessel Stag Hound sunk by Italian submarine Barbarigo

In the Pacific...
Battle of the Bismarck Sea Day 2: A second air strike on the Japanese invasion force sinks 6 transports and two destroyers. Eight USN PT boats attack damaged vessels, wreckage, and survivors in the water overnight. Approximately 3800 survivors rescued but over 3000 troops and sailors are lost.

Japanese vessel Choei Maru sunk by USN aircraft off Vella Lavella Island.
In Burma...
A Chindit force cuts the Mandalay-Myitkyina railway.

In the Indian Ocean...
U-160 sinks US vessel Harvey W. Scott and British vessel Nirpura.

Today's Air Raids...
Knaben, Norway by RAF Bomber Command
Hamburg, Germany by RAF Bomber Command
Northern France on military tarhgets by RAF Fighter Command and US 8th Air Force Fighters
North Sea minelaying by RAF Bomber Command
London by the Luftwaffe
Italy various military targets by US 9th Air Force
Messina, Sicily by USAAF
Tunis, Tunisia by USAAF
Kiska Island by US 11th Air Force
Tulagi Island by Japanese aircraft
Rangoon, Burma by US 10th Air Force

2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
Me time other than for the Milk Run.
Long meditation and more me time after lunch. Missus time in the evening.

 Twitter Followers = 1,625 (up 2)
  Nonfollowed eliminated = 0
  Unfollowers eliminated = 0

3. TODAY'S SELF OBSERVATION
A smooth second shift of the Weekend Job gave me the opportunity to focus on improving my ability to stay grounded. Rummaging through my knowledge gave me a powerful new visualisation to focus on that worked quite well, and I will be passing it on to my clients.

I note with interest that science is catching up with and vindicating nondualist philosophy, in particular that the self does not exist other than as a powerful pervasive illusion. Neuroscience has found that there is no seat of consciousness in the brain, and that the brain acts before there is conscious awareness of making a decision to. Physical unconsciousness is simply the lack of communication between different regions of the brain, preventing the formation of memory.

Without memory, there can be no concept of self. It is possible to adopt a frame of mind that doesn't trigger conscious memory of "self", and in this mode there is just experience - rather than somebody doing something, there are simply changes in types of energy happening. Becoming truly aware of what's going on thus results in the death of the concept of an individual self.

This leads to the question of why you'd want your concept of self to die anyway. If your experience of self is positive, the answer is none - there is no incentive to raise your consciousness higher. However for myself, the experience of self has been frightening and upsetting. Higher consciousness offers an escape from this suffering, and to introduce new and different experience.

And that's the bottom line... to move towards the experience of peace. The intentions that arise are simply a consequence of that movement.

4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
What do you want to experience?

5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD
Dry and cloudy all day, evening and overnight.
Wind will be slight and originally westerly, veering south-easterly by mid-afternoon.
Max Temp = 7 degC
Min Temp = 2 degC
Sunrise at 06:52
Sunset at 17:48

6. TODAY'S ONELINER
I keep going round in circles - one leg is shorter than the other : D

7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY!
Andy Gold on addiction

8. TRIVIA
A “mega-tsunami” is a tsunami with extremely high waves and is usually caused by a landslide. A mega-tsunami occurred at Lituya Bay, Alaska, in 1958, creating the tallest tsunami ever recorded at 1,700 feet (534 m) high. Miraculously, only two people died.

9. THE WISDOM I'VE LEARNED FROM OTHERS
"Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved." - Barbra Johnson