Science tells us that energy is matter and matter is energy. Furthermore, we are told that matter itself is made up of 99.99999 percent space, with the remaining amount of "actual" matter contained in the nucleus of each atom. However, science now tells us that even the nucleus is nothing more than tiny particles, moving so rapidly they only appear to be solid. In other words, we are nothing more than vibrating energy. Therefore, the reason we create our own reality by turning attention toward expansive or contractive energy is because we are energy In the following book, I hope to demonstrate that we can choose to live in harmony with nature by cultivating a quiet, "Zen" mind, which is to be found in the present moment of now. Furthermore, I intend to show that modern science is telling us that now is all there is, and what we typically conceive of as "time" is an abstraction of the mind only, which is the same thing Buddhist literature has been telling us for thousands of years. In addition, when we look beyond the limiting nature of the ego, both in society and the self, we come to realize that all of the major religions, philosophies, stories, myths, and legends have been saying the same thing all along. When we look beyond morality we can see that these ideologies are providing us with a road map to transcend the ego, raise our level of consciousness, and experience the authentic life our true self was meant to live.