All of us seek to experience in life the feeling of the maximum wholeness, a fullness that has no parallel, nothing higher, nothing missing. The absolute maximum our consciousness can experience. I believe everyone yearns for this experience, but everyone seeks it according to their particular awareness and knowledge.

This experience is within us. It is not had by anything outside us even if something outside causes us to feel it. If we see something beautiful, the thought of beauty happens inside us, not in the thing we see. What we are seeing coincides with what to us, is beauty. There is a match between our inner sense of beauty and the object seen.

The Leela-Lugano is an expression on wheels of what is beauty to me. That is why I made the car. The combination of sight, sound, movement, and feeling all come together in a satisfying way.

Driving the car should put us in the perfect 'zone' where we feel everything is just as it should be.

It started out as what seemed like a good project to do with my three sons. I have always loved sports cars, love to race, and compete. So I thought, why not do the sports car I always felt inside me rather than leave it in the dream world. Besides it would be a good opportunity for the boys to learn how to make stuff, and it would give us some time together.

At one point I actually shelved the project because it is such a self involved project- meaning, it doesn't actually help anyone. It doesn't help the poor, feed the hungry, reduce emissions, or carry more people more efficently. It is a pure expression of passion, the love of an engine in full song, the beauty of a red car screaming through a stwisty road and disappearing into the horizon. It's all the things that center us in our physical selves. For many this may not be a problem, but for me it has been. I do not view life in such a way that activity can be spent purely for the personal indulgence of our senses. Sometimes ok, but not too much. Why? Because the best in life comes from a pure state of consciousness unmodified by emotion, desire, even thought. This requires persistent undistracted concentration- actually the kind needed to race. It is very similar to meditation. One pointed focus with no extraneous thoughts.

So here we begin to embrace the spiritual aspect of our makeup. Whether we are meditating, jogging, or driving fast, it is the control of the mind that becomes paramount. Once we know what to do it becomes an exercise in doing it well with minimal mistakes: staying in the perfect zone.

Why am I digressing toward the mind-set of the driving experience? Because to me our lives are composed of the thoughts we think, the feelings we have. Even a physical experience is interpreted as good, bad, nice, pleasant, etc. by our minds! Can you measure a thought, a feeling? Does it have weight? A body without consciousness is a corpse. So, life is not physical, it is consciousness. To be able to maintain pure consciousness with no thought is perfection. Bliss is the natural experience in this state.

The Leela Motors corporate symbol is the Lingum. It is the symbol of the universe. Oval in shape, it represents creation, and the word Leela is the sanskrit term for God's grace. God created the world for living beings to express, experience, and enjoy. That is the purpose of the car: to give joy, feel life, and be happy!