tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51921382114007482342024-03-27T19:53:47.268-04:00zmark.caThe Mastery of LifeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger308125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192138211400748234.post-48983605480146276702024-03-16T05:17:00.014-04:002024-03-17T06:59:25.915-04:00The World as a Passing Dream<div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="884" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEids3nLQmIAxRSNP_s_M0PgaPZpbAcSN19aemVnTduChn_2F3FPS_ELimtzZkMk6wgymGj46eOayGXJlRMKlY4ULbBX8rxoaBx9DJVlNLaCX7HZFwe7K1f3Zq7MT-idKPNa5jCgCHRCgMIeIK5JjYLJlKtPkEBzTlhTwmpLkR8tKLZbbiZ-gCAvGMNz/s16000/Yoga-Vasistha.jpg" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In the last year I am aware of dreams, often I am aware while dreaming. It is interesting to watch how dreams are created. It first comes a picture and then words which shape that picture into something like movie. You may be inside the movie but most of the time you don't see yourself, you just have a feeling "you are" so that feeling makes the dream - your dream.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Absolutely the same thing is happening in this "reality", we call it "world" or "waking state". Of course these things are in quotation marks, they are no more true than a ten minutes dream you're having while you are in afternoon nap.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There is a very good book, I read it twice - <i><b><span style="font-size: large;">Yoga Vasishta</span></b></i>, here is a chapter from that book:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="831" data-original-width="1000" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0xmZJgrPIvg54sr4FrIT4TE16UOJpFeUj6HyhBqpNsOghoe3UodwOt0Yd-AuApOw7f0aDa54RHx7CI4zvm6SBEixq4VMcwdvRC3SUC6pp3foDI8EHCf-UcjKUxC4xHo2y34vayWMutGbb6uNqWL8n5Mcypx98zIBf275dTjwES6Temlrxf4Hulgcc/s16000/Yoga-Vasistha.jpg" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">BOOK VI – On Liberation - Chapter 61</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Description of the World as a Passing Dream</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>1. Rama said, “O sage, without doubt we are a dream-drawn house, the body of the lotus-born Brahma, the first progenitor. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>2. If this world is a non-entity (asat), we must know our existence to be the same non-entity. Then how is it possible that we have acquired such a firm faith in the reality (sat) of this dream?”</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>3. Vasishta responded: — We are shining here as a created being by the previous birth of Brahma, but in fact, the reflection of soul shines forever as nothing else.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>4. Owing to the omnipresence of consciousness, all beings exist as reality everywhere, and if consciousness rises from unreal knowledge, consciousness as real knowledge destroys the unreal one. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>5. Therefore whatever comes from these five elements is only transitory, but owing to the firm belief of ego, we enjoy a firm faith that it is real.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>6. In a dream, we see a good many things as reality, but as soon the dream is over, we do not find the things we had dreamed of. As long we remain in ignorance, we see the reality of the world in the same way. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>7. O Rama, the dreaming man thinks his dream is reality because he has faith in it. In the same way, this world appears as reality to the supreme God who has no beginning or end. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>8. That which is created by a dreaming man is said to be his own, just as we can say that what is in the seed is in the fruit. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>9. Whatever comes from non-entity is to be called non-entity. Though the unreal can be workable, it is not reasonable to think that what is unreal is good.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>10. As the thinking result of unreality is to be given up, so the firm faith which arises in the dreaming man that the dream is real must also be given up. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>11. Whatever the soul creates in a dream is our firm belief, but that remains only for a short time. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>12. Brahman’s long drawn dream is this world, hence we also think this world is long drawn, but in fact, this world is a moment to Brahman.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>13. Consciousness is the creator of all elements. She creates everything according to her model, hence creator and creation are one and the same. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>14. As the backward and forward whirling motion of water makes a deep swell, and as a fairy appears in a dream, so all these nothings are in reality. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>15. This entity with its change is nothing. In whatever manner we look at an object, it will appear in the same manner. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>16. The rule of the false dream is not to reproduce because the production is not in the world, but owing to ignorance, it appears so.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>17. In the three worlds we see wonderful objects, such as undersea fire burning in the water. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>18. A good many cities exist in emptiness, and birds and stars remain in the sky. We find a lotus in stone, like trees growing without earth. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>19. One country gives every kind of object to the seeker, like a wish-fulfilling tree that gives all objects to the seeker. We see a stone or rows of jewels like fruit from a fruitful tree. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>20. Life like frogs exists within a stone. A moonstone gives water. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>21. In a dream, many things are made and unmade within a minute, all of which, in fact, are as unreal as one’s death in a dream. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>22. The natural water of the elements is suspended in the sky (cloud) when the heavenly Mandakini River remains in emptiness.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>23. A heavy stone or a winged mountain flies in the air. Everything can be obtained through a stone when everything can be secured from the philosopher’s stone. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>24. In Indra’s garden of bliss, every desired object can be obtained, but when one is liberated, such kind of desire for objects is lacking. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>25. Even dull matter acts like a machine, hence every object acts like wonderful false magic. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>26. By magical art we see even impossible objects such as two moons, headless trunks (kavandhas), mantras, drugs, and pisacha ghosts. All these are the works of wonderful false magic and are, in fact, nothing.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>27. We see the impossible as real and possible. Impossibility becomes real only because of our false ideas. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>28. Though it appears as real, a false dream is in fact unreal. There is nothing which is unreal and there is nothing which is real. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>29. So all worldly beings see this dream of creation as real, just as a dreamer takes his dream as a reality. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>30. By passing from one error to another error, from one dream to another, a firm faith in the reality of the dream comes out. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>31. As a stray deer repeatedly falls into a pit for green grass, so ignorant man repeatedly falls into the pit of this world owing to his ignorance.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192138211400748234.post-72638760980484685002024-03-15T04:28:00.006-04:002024-03-16T20:57:16.754-04:00I'm getting old!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="892" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju5PBKDpmb4f3nXGdLaPMIl67xXs6ue0PmdQcUFuuVEo6Ui-pVCn47a8Us7S0alLoYZgi8BGfXBb_optZ9E694bR4xApHhrlwL0aIRXfRdSMVhGMp-nVx__zUAnSmI-Rg9mwdfLmBbW6Fe6ECs5mUlLnPbKvG5WpTQuxJ8W-K6uFzV9e02laGmuvl0/s16000/20231021_152651.jpg" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>This morning I read friends messages on our group chat. They were joking between each other and they posted many videos and funny photos but somehow I found all that to be so infantile, immature and simply said - stupid. I asked my friend, who set up the group, to take me out of that chat. My taste has changed, I wonder did I mature?, did I got old?, I cannot tolerate stupidity so blatantly as before.<div><br /><div>Ten days more, I will be fully 59 and I'll step into 60. </div><div><br /></div><div>It’s discouraging thinking of yourself as an old man, and it comes as a shock. Being 59 is being old and being old it doesn’t feel like a privilege, even if it’s preferable to the alternative of being 70. What have I learned about what it’s really like to get old? Not a lot, but here it is. I thought to write it down before I forget it. 😉<br /><div><div><br />
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Unfortunately, we have regarded as normal a dangerous and misguided message of
body acceptance; they're fat because they eat too much and they don't
exercise.<br /><br />In this society it has become <i>OKAY </i>to shame people
for being skinny, but to come out and say "<i>You're fat. That is not healthy, you don't look good</i>" is a kind of insult if not a disaster.<br /><br />It's time we stop hiding
this issue, stop kidding ourselves that fat is good, because it is not. Not
because celebrities and models are skinny but because fat is unattractive and
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don't like when after couple of beers my stomach gets so large, I cannot
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I usually change the subject reminding them that I am 59 and I 'm okay
with how I look... WTF!!! I mean, I see it, I feel it in yoga practice
especially in finishing poses. Pindasana pose is the worst for belly fat
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<div><br /></div><div>The real difference between being young and old is not only physical (getting fatter and fatter), nor even mental (more and more chatting with yourself) it is the heaviness of all the years piled up behind you. Some call it experience, and having this considerable past doesn’t necessarily give you any more wisdom. </div><div><br /></div><div>It just gives you a heavy feeling of time so that things that happened last week and things that happened in the 1990 sit side by side in your memory. This is a big problem because it forcing you to talk all the time the same stories.</div><div><br /></div><div>At some point during your 50ies you start noticing that whenever you stand up or sit down you make a noise: a groan of exertion of heaviness. When rising from a chair there’s significant effort and the opposite, on the way down there’s usually a relief. </div><div><br /></div><div>You can train yourself not to make these noises, but the noises will win in the end.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>In last two months I eat very little with 8 to 14 hours between
meals and guess what... I lost 4 kg. This morning my weight was 90.2 kg
and last night after yoga practice 89.5 kg.<br /><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>I am 191 cm tall, 6'3". My ideal weight is 88kg and now I am so
close to that. Now, I want to get rid of this 2 kg of stomach fat. I want
to have my ideal weight. </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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possible but only if I go a bit closer to that I will be satisfied. And I
do know, a goal without a hard work is just a wish!!!</div><div><br />
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In 60s you will develop a growing resistance to any change with ever increase of aloofness. I realized that getting old goes towards being more and more disapproving, rude, dismissive, mistrustful and slow to grasp subtleties of life. Shit.</div><div><br /></div><div>Oh that's it... 😓</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TAAy2Zm417o" width="320" youtube-src-id="TAAy2Zm417o"></iframe></div><div><br /></div>
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2014 when I set the goal for 2015. It hits me that nothing is changed. Almost
10 years later I am the same, stupid personality, I have the same goal, I did
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<i><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">2015 goal!</span><br /><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">To live conscious life</span>. </b></span><br /><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">In 2015 I want to be fully aware of my own existence, sensations,
thoughts, surroundings, etc. </span><br /><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I need to remember:</span><br /><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">All is illusion, the 'I' is illusion, so whatever the 'I' does is also
illusion. Remove the name and the shape and nothing remains. In final
Reality there is no 'you', no 'I', no mind and no thought. That is your
natural state.</span><br /><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Awakening is nothing but a complete, thorough understanding. A clear
cut understanding is awakening. Reality is not to be achieved, it is
already here. After this thorough understanding, nothing is
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Understand that everything is illusion. Reality is beyond knowledge.
Forget everything and immediately you are the Self, in this very moment.
There is nothing to reject and nothing to gain because everything is
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<i><br /><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Understand that 'myself' is illusion. People don't understand that
illusion is nothing. </span><br /><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Understand the mind and then it doesn't remain. Not remaining as 'I'
is the highest understanding.</span><br /><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">When you see the illusion as an illusion you will stop being fooled
by it. This is the true 'understanding'. You are already the
Reality. </span><br /><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Why waste time running after the unreal?</span><br /><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Be fearless. Roar like a tiger. Don't be like a mouse, always running
away. Illusory 'I' has no real existence, the world has no existence.
Take it for granted.</span></i></div></blockquote></div><div><br /></div>
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I have to change things in my life but I wonder what to change?
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Beneath the surface of this apparent world, in my inner self, lurks an uneasy
feeling that I'm not truly at home. The emptiness of my existence reveals
itself.
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<br />I have started to see things as they are. I see my thoughts and fears of
illness, some tragedy, loss of family, loss of job. These fears together with
awareness that I'm getting older by each passing day are with me.
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My death sentence hanging over my head, and there is a certain urgency to make
the best of my days before my time runs out.
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<br />I'm not sure for you, but I desperately search for answer of my
existence. <i>Who am I?</i> <i>What is the world? How I came to be?</i> But
there are no answers, except those I'm ready to give myself. I cannot solve
this ultimate mystery of existence so tonight I re-read Ramana Maharshi and
his teaching.
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There is no need for answers, there are no answers. Be as I am, without
thoughts, is all that is required.
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<div><i>Q: When a man realizes the Self, what will he see?</i></div>
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<i>A: There is no seeing. Seeing is only being. The state of
Self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or
reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you
always are and which you always have been. </i>
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<i>All that is needed is that you give up your realization of the not-true
as true. All of us are regarding as real that which is not real. We have
only to give up this practice on our part. Then we shall realize the
Self as the Self; in other words, Be the Self. </i>
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<i>At one stage you will laugh at yourself for trying to discover the Self
which is so self-evident.</i>
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<i>So, what can we say to this question? That stage transcends the seer
and the seen. There is no seer there to see anything. The seer who is
seeing all this now ceases to exist and the Self alone remains.</i>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">So, there is nothing to be understood!</span><br /><br />In the world I have to see the false as false and that is the
whole understanding of truth.<br /><br />My life, all of it, is my path to
awakening. I pay attention to what my life is trying to reveal to me, that's
all. The mystery of existence should be solved: There is no "<i>me</i>".
"<i>Me</i>" is just a thread of memory that gives me a sense of
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A constant flow of thoughts and the identification with that flow is the
imagined identity. This Zee, this "<i>me</i>" is a dreamed-up character with a
mistaken identity based on imagination of "<i>I AM</i>" sense.
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"<i>Me</i>", my individuality or personality is simple but persistent
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192138211400748234.post-28590058213991740662024-03-08T05:05:00.015-05:002024-03-15T04:42:14.112-04:00I'm going my own way<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9CJITILYLo-_AUyxCNTddCNRD99n9Zwsz4udplEsdE9Xqe_TJYub0SKL_RR56PC3acas-a8iy6TP2gW94-ksQXjQMl9DJt2q158zIpVTXdV_DIxntYb4wSba1gbkQL60XkAj0dbS4LL6KrObyOxZa94H-WLGvy7RdlQmVc9T5wSlxSz3vWufu-O4Y/s16000/20240307_171243.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The phrase <i>don't cast your pearls before swine</i> is a biblical reference from the New Testament. It means not to offer valuable or precious things to those who are unable to appreciate or understand their worth. It's often used to advise against sharing something valuable with someone who is unlikely to appreciate it.</div><div><br /></div><div>I'm writing here articles with deep thought and delicate sense of humor but I need to be more careful with offering this genuine stuff. My honesty, integrity, good will... it may be misused and disregarded, and attempts to awaken you from your slumber may go against me.</div><div><br /></div><div>Matthew 7.6 exactly says -<i> do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, or they will trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces</i>, so I will not waste my time and energy trying to teach anyone who is incapable of seeing the truth!</div><div><br /></div><div><i></i></div><blockquote><div><i>The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted. </i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>~ Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited</i></div></blockquote><div><i></i></div><div> </div><div>My sincerity guides me. Devotion to my goal of freedom and perfection makes me abandon friendship, slowly remove myself from this shitty society, become extremely selfish and utterly alone. I need to abandon all theories and systems and live by wisdom, intelligence and active will. Various spiritual theories may be good as starting points, but must be abandoned, the sooner - the better.</div><div><br /></div><div>Concentration, full confidence, "I am" sense, keeping attention before words! With such assets, I am going my own way. </div><div><br /></div><div>In my life I face challenges over and over to which I have only partial influence, so I find myself subject to circumstances that I can’t control. Living simple, stress-free, healthy life is very tough due to influence of other people.</div><div><br /></div><div>I'm coming to conclusion that less people you know the better you are. Being alone is a gift, real gift.</div><div><br /></div><div>I will not strive to impress anyone. No more wasting time to prove something. I'm walking away from opinions of others, I simply don’t care because I accept the fact that no one really cares about me. It’s a tough pill to swallow, but it’s necessary.</div><div><br /></div><div>I have no desire to make a difference in anyone's life, I am only selfishly concerned how to live my own life truthfully in this full of shit world.</div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192138211400748234.post-84988042788993128462024-03-07T04:21:00.000-05:002024-03-14T19:22:09.892-04:00Silver Lining of Depersonalization<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="826" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqTkpMVCTIq1Qzr_K7Cq4cHBcLdbLdOu6J823swC-rHO_NWB-uXvKPjjKJpWAdN_QbtWOiRF8nSyEoKE4ucXL-kb3zDlZusfqWvhW7rhrIo20ZtSqJUdxRbcpaVbbATrPr2YIkqGqntpf3eF4zWZCJfFJ13L7dQvq8V4mC5XQNqBpNcv6Voj08cNtO/s16000/antidepressants.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">For your info, the <i><b>silver lining</b></i> in English means an advantage that comes from a difficult or unpleasant situation. So here we go...</div><div><br /></div><div>I wanted to write a post about Depersonalization and Derealization (DPDR) mental heath issues for a long time. I have noticed that the goal of spiritual awakening is exactly the same as the DPDR disorder. </div><div><br /></div><div>Depersonalization is a mental heath problem that refers to the feeling of disconnection from one's body, thoughts, emotions, or identity. It is described as a feeling of being detached from oneself, often observing oneself from the outside. </div><div><br /></div><div>Derealization involves a sense of detachment from one's surroundings, seeing the world as a dream and the body as a robot like machine.</div><div><br /></div><div>Psychiatrists indicate that DPDR disorder is caused by prolong use of marijuana and other drugs, stress or trauma, long periods of anxiety and depression and other mental heath conditions but they say it can also occur in people who are experiencing spiritual awakening or enlightenment.</div><div><br /></div><div>Please note, if you are experiencing depersonalization and it is causing you distress, it is important to seek help from a mental health professional. Psychiatrist can help you understand the cause of your symptoms and provide you with support and treatment. </div><div><br /></div><div>I am not suggesting that you seek guidance from a spiritual teacher, obviously you lack a deeper understanding of the spiritual context of your experience and I think their guidance and support will not be helpful. </div><div><br /></div><div>Spiritual awakening is a lonely journey that is unique to each individual. It is not walking in the park, the genuine awakening is challenging and transformative psychological process. It is important to be clear of your intentions and purpose, sound minded and careful. </div><div><br /></div><div>Spiritual practices bring experiences. That is okay if they are taken as such, as experiences. They are a part of your personal growth and development. Derealization and depersonalization are one of these experiences and they can be associated with mental health challenges if you are not prepared.</div><div><br /></div><div>Those experiences can scare you without really having a reason to do so. They are not dangerous and they are transient. They are part of spiritual maturity but if they are induced suddenly by stress and trauma it can cause the challenge.</div><div><br /></div><div>Depersonalization, as any mental heath disorder, comes in episodes, when your individual's consciousness changes, so you become aware of the unreality of your psychological self. If you are unprepared without spiritual knowledge, this is a terrifying. You are simultaneously identified with your inner monologue, but you also see its illusory nature. </div><div><br /></div><div>What makes this experience particularly frightening is that it is impossible to adequately describe, because it is exactly this experience that language was designed to hide. </div><div><br /></div><div>In DPDR disorder, you do not enter into new psychological state (5th dimension or any expanded consciousness), but rather you becomes aware of an aspect of experience that you had previously been unconsciously ignoring. The faculty of your mind with constant thinking process actually screens out this aspect of experience.</div><div><br /></div><div>DPDR feels like you're an observer of your thoughts, feelings, your body or parts of your body — for example, as if you were floating in air above yourself. This can bring panic attacks, shortness of breath and other issues. You're feeling like a robot not in control of your speech or movements. You experience an emotional numbness and a sense that your memories lack emotion, and that they may or may not be your own memories.</div><div><br /></div><div>Enlightenment is similar but at the same time quite different than DPDR episodes. There is no “you” observing anything from anywhere. It is not experience it is a kind of understanding. You don’t “feel like” anything. There is no “you” that can feel like a robot or whatever...</div><div><br /></div><div>It all comes down to the question: </div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">Are you ready for enlightenment?</span></div><div><br /></div><div>DPDR is normal. It’s not considered normal by medical society, they make money on it, so they will say there’s something wrong with you. Enlightenment is basically the ultimate depersonalization, it is complete when there’s no more "you" left.</div><div><br /></div><div>Don’t expect any support from society, most will just think you’re crazy. And in a way, you are. What is the difference, you have already went insane all your life having a person in your head who was telling you what to do, what to feel. </div><div><br /></div><div>You have to go through your insanity to become sane. You don’t have to talk to anyone about what you’re going through, but don’t be afraid - it is to be expected. And don’t do anything drastic or stupid. Just witness it, that’s all that is needed. </div><div><br /></div><div>Your persona was never real to begin with.</div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192138211400748234.post-29317418734450008372024-03-05T14:49:00.000-05:002024-03-14T19:22:27.005-04:00Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus - for fun 😉<div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="895" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLmt6_n5bDZUvX9zk5vmEW2LsvM9ZL8Yn3rmgzmhXs65bCkZFvG7zMTLVOhHxpFesHR9udDHfdCGpd2FvtsK1TkWXQInDKO9vNTbhQoD9Zm7NFK5RmnA-Ul2PYxOp5Df0StbNmChxeAIGb8VxG_cf3JKo6ip-wr2QbOWRwIKj-mWIo5To5W4hgGg2K/s16000/tractatus-logico-philosophicu.jpg" /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><i>Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus </i>is a philosophical book written by Ludwig Wittgenstein who is the one of the greatest, if not the greatest philosopher of the 20th century.</div><div><br /></div><div>80 pages book, <i>Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus</i> is published during his lifetime and it was the only philosophical work that was worth your time and attention.</div><div><br /></div><div>Don’t let the size of <i>Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus</i> fool you, it will probably take you to read it as much as time as it would take you to read Lev Tolstoy's <i>War and Peace</i>.</div><div><br /></div><div>And, sorry to say, but unless you are really interested in philosophy the War and Peace would probably be the more interesting book.</div><div><br /></div><div>Ludwig Wittgenstein’s <i>Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus</i> is one of the strangest texts in the history of philosophy that comes from a field occupied by Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger which have left behind enormous volumes works!</div><div><br /></div><div>Wittgenstein’s magnum opus is barely 526 propositions long. And in young Wittgenstein’s humble opinion, it managed to resolve all philosophical problems once and for all.</div><div><br /></div><div>Quite a strange thing to think if you take into consideration the fact that, by his own words from the preface to the <i>Tractatus</i> that the whole book might be summed up the following - what can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.</div><div><br /></div><div>If you had troubles understanding this sentence, then don’t bother reading the whole book because that sentence is probably the least complicated in this book.</div><div><br /></div><div>If you want to read his book here is the link: <i><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://people.umass.edu/klement/tlp/tlp.pdf" target="_blank">Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus</a></span></i>. </div><div><br /></div><div>Upon reading first 20 pages I gave up the whole endeavored. However for a fun, with Wittgenstein's help I wrote my own Tractatus propositions so I will post it here. You may even like it... </div><div><br /></div><div><i></i></div><blockquote><div><i>1.The world is everything that is the case.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>2. Life is existence.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>2.1 Existence is the self experiencing.</i></div><div><i>2.2 Self experiencing is self expression.</i></div><div><i>2.3 Self expression is consciousness sensing itself.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>3. It is all the play of the Infinite.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>3.1 The Infinite alone exists.</i></div><div><i>3.2 Self does not exists, it appears.</i></div><div><i>3.3 Whatever Self creates has to be placed within itself.</i></div><div><i>3.4 No other reality exists where to place it.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>4. The nature of consciousness is to imagine experiences.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>4.1 Experiences can be perceived only through opposites such as good and bad, hot and cold, day and night etc. </i></div><div><i>4.2 Without opposites, experiences cannot be perceived.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>5. Infinite alone exists without opposites.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>5.1 Infinite exists for the sake of play, of experiences, opposites are imagined.</i></div><div><i>5.2 Creation is an illusion, simply a dream.</i></div><div><i>5.3 Creation is within the Infinite for the sake of play. </i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>6. We forget that we are Infinite.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>6.1 By forgetting we are Infinite we increase the reality of dreams.</i></div><div><i>6.2 The greater the reality of dreams, the more stimulating the experience.</i></div><div><i>6.3 Experiences require separation.</i></div><div><i>6.4 Separation cause that the Infinite can never be experienced.</i></div><div><i>6.5 The Infinite alone exists without separation.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>7. Experiencing the Infinite is not possible.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>7.1 You can never separate from what you are.</i></div><div><i>7.2 You can never experience what you are.</i></div><div><i>7.3 What you are you are.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>8. To know your Self as it really is, simply be quiet.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>8.1 "I am" consciousness realizes itself as consciousness.</i></div><div><i>8.2 "I am" alone is the source within which the world appears.</i></div><div><i>8.3 "I am" consciousness realizes itself as being an imagination.</i></div><div><i>8.4 "I am " is an imagination so no experiences or creation ever exist.</i></div><div><i>8.5 Realizing this, play as you wish. </i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>9. Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.</i></div></blockquote></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192138211400748234.post-34119860616158051822024-03-04T07:02:00.003-05:002024-03-04T07:04:24.456-05:002 Major Concerns For March 2024<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is my favorite selfie with my wife. It is taken a night before our trip
to Maldives. It was July 31, 2022, my suitcase was lost and it was not arrived
from Toronto. We visited my father that day and he gave me this black
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This selfie was taken in <i>Belgrade on River</i> place after we bought all
new clothes for our trip. We had such a wonderful time in Maldives. It is the
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<div><br /></div><div><div>My wife is coming in 3 weeks to Toronto. We will celebrate my birthday here on Wednesday, March 27 and then on Sunday we're heading up to La Romana in Dominican Republic for a 7 days vacation. I am looking forward for this vacation, like never before, I desperately feel a need for some sun and sea.</div><div><br /></div><div>The pain I had in my shoulders is gone so now I can swim freely. Since our wedding I miss my wife so much. 2 and half months of not being together is a lot. But I'm not going to complain again. I will use this period until we meet. </div><div><br /></div><div>I have 2 major concerns for March. The first one is to increase my physical exercise and my second concern is to stay aware, fully conscious human being concentrating at the present moment only.</div></div><div><br /></div>
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<div><br /></div><div><div>March is a tough month, it is still cold here in Toronto and we are already tired of long Canadian winter. It knows to snow a lot, it is windy, rainy and gray days knows to stay for weeks. Despite all this I need to increase my physical exercise.</div><div><br /></div><div>February was a yoga challenge month for me and it was just okay, I am not fully satisfied. I had 20 practices but I can count only 8 because they are more than 45 minutes long, the rest were just stretch exercises. What is important, I was on yoga mat almost every day. </div><div><br /></div><div>My body weights this morning is 89 kg, yoohoo bellow 90, I have slimmed 4 kg since I returned from Serbia in January 15. For March I need to do 1 hour yoga practice every day. This is the most important resolution I put in front of me for this period.</div><div><br /></div><div>I have prepared my body for more workout so I am going to include in my daily practice the strength poses. I mean dolphin pose, regular plank and side planks. </div><div><br /></div><div>The most important change for March is that yoga practice must be performed before I log in at work, meaning I have to do it before 8 am. This is crucial. The early morning yoga practice is quite different than the afternoon practice because the body is still stiff, the room is cold so you need more energy to generate the internal heat. This is done by doing sun salutations A and B.</div></div><div><br /></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: center;">Maldives, August 1 - 9, 2022</i></div>
<div><br /></div><div><div>After work I will go for a long walk regardless of the weather outside. I need walking, a lot of walking. Almost all February I spent in my apartment. I work from home and I went out only to buy groceries. This has to stop.</div><div><br /></div><div>After walking I will go to gym at my condo. I am going to start slowly, arms, shoulders, stomach on day and legs and stomach the other day. </div><div><br /></div><div>I need a strong will power to do this, I know that after today or tomorrow all muscles will hurt like hell. I will be tired and laziness will return. I should be very careful not to go more than I can handle at this moment. I need to increase weights slowly.</div></div><div><br /></div>
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<i><div style="text-align: center;"><i>My sweetheart 💓 Belgrade, March 4, 2024</i></div></i>
<div><br /></div><div><div>In order to keep daily routine I need to be aware and focused. This is my second concern for March - to be conscious of what I am doing and what I am talking. I have to cut external interests for daily news, internet and wasting my time completely stupidly and unnecessary.</div><div><br /></div><div>My focus is going to be on my March's goal... daily physical exercise!!!</div></div><div><br /></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192138211400748234.post-32918526806637956772024-03-03T05:55:00.004-05:002024-03-03T05:59:18.023-05:00The Way Out<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="870" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj43YxBUJLodZkwuIQqaJt-wHvy2WJLsucjQ_zOh6a2VV_BYbrZAz1UEZeZFLrkeuX_TnVnmzNq80BlFwMbItFEfwdaQrk_0FIgky0aYdWM3U6sxeMoZnz3-oXxO8OMsuQLT_8BtFglXvgm6JipSCSsS0DQ_IwaWReEybgvSiR13e4faiKfbokiNpKP/s16000/Prison_Planet_art.jpg" /></div>
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<i><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/who-owns-world-small-group-big-money/5850681">Who Owns the World</a></span></i>
is the title of a documentary, describing how Big Money controls not only
every aspect of your life, but has a stranglehold on every government, the
political UN body, as well as every UN agency, and all industries and services
of this globe.
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These largest investors are BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street. These same
investment groups also control over 90% of the world’s major media. They know
no limits, no ethics and adhere to no human or human rights standard.
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They are closely linked, to the point where their management is largely
interchangeable for example Vanguard is BlackRock’s largest shareholder,
meaning that they control BlackRock. Though Vanguard is not transparent about
its own shareholders, Vanguard is owned by the richest families on earth.
Vanguard has been created to hide their investments and money transactions.
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Through non-profit organizations, like the Rockefeller Foundation, Gates
Foundation, Rothschild Foundation, JPMorgan Foundation, Clinton Foundation,
Bush Foundation, Albert DuPont Charity Trust and so on, billions of “donation”
money is transferred tax-free to Vanguard.
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is the largest funder of WHO. It also
controls GAVI, the vax-alliance – and is therefore the most influential
organization over human health and death.
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These same people, alias Foundations, also own Blackrock – which is why
BlackRock and Vanguard are interchangeable or can act as one, if it is to
their advantage, an omnipotent vicious circle.
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<div><span style="font-size: x-large;">They need your consent to play against you</span></div>
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I'm telling you for a long time something you do not want you to know. This
world is not a natural physical world, it is rather a holographic reality
where your mind dictates matter. You as an observer are active participant for
all events happening here.
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It is said that the world is a simulation because it is has been manipulated
by predictive programming to lead you to believe certain things in a certain way, their way. The elites doing
everything possible to guide the sheep to end of humanity as we know it.</div>
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There is nothing to fear. Your are part of this and you partake in the
collective mind. Only you own reality! You have gift of speech and intellect which makes you a human being but your powers are limited by keeping this
information away from yourself by endless propaganda, wars, deliberate
economic, collapses which cause instability in the world.
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It is all around you so you may never get out of survival mode and ask
yourself the deeper questions. Your mind free from all the dogmas,
manipulation and predictive programming is about taking your power back in
your personal life and doing your part in the collective by bringing about a
bright future for Humanity collectively.
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These few families of the elites who have been ruling for a long time will
rule no more because you will have withdrawn your consent to give them what
they want by refusing to play their games of war and endless false flags.
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The elites desperately wants you to agree to their plans, nothing sells better
than fear.
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It is all illusion, everything here is false, not true</span></div><div><br /></div><div>Stay
awake, don't get lost in the illusion.
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Despite writing this blog and sharing spiritual teachings with you, I do still
very frequently find myself lost in the illusion. That is the nature of this
simulation, I lose myself in an immersion to the point of complete
forgetfulness of who I really am are so I understand you very well.
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<div>The world we are living is a neutral field, full of potential and it responds
to our intents. The nature is filled with a burning desire to achieve
something giving you power of creativity and imagination to use this infinite
potential.</div>
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Whatever is strongly intended appears from the world in flesh. What even is
the Placebo Effect?
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Can you explain how a person is healed from an illness even though we gave him
fake medicine? If a person believes that the drug they have been given will
heal them this strong intention is presented to universe and response comes.
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This reality might not be so consistent and natural. There was a story of a
man who got into freezer truck. Suddenly doors were shut and locked, while man
was still inside. They found him in the morning, he was dead, frozen. The
thing is, the freezer was turned off, the truck engine was not running, the
temperature inside was around 20 C.
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It is a false premise that we live in a natural solid world. This is how
predictive programming works. Predictive programming works like rituals as
rituals are programming blueprints for the hypnosis of the masses. They are
inducing state of receptiveness in the masses by movies, songs, sports, news
and other entertaining services to get into subconscious mind of unsuspecting
victims.
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<div>Why they don’t want you to know this?</div>
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They make a jokes of free thinkers, don't laugh, because be sure that you are
the subject of their jokes. You are the energy source, you provide them with
the energy they desperately need to keep on ruling over this world. </div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">You are not lonely, poor and lost</span> </div>
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They will never tell you that the world is inside you. You are not inside the
world.</div>
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Today, everything is available for you on the internet to figure out what is
going on in the world. Find out and stop participating in the games of the
elites and your government, stop relying on them and they will cease to exist
in their current form.
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Save yourself as an individual, start with yourself, apply what you know, make
the perfect life for yourself and people dear to you. Once you begin to do
great, others will follow you because they will get curious as to how you are
doing better than them.
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The objective of the world is to awaken you as the immortal by using the gift
of speech and intellect. As you are now, you are lost in the illusions of race,
nationality, religion, politics and all other distractions in this world.
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Remember, it's all created by the powers that apply the age-old tactic of
divide and rule. 1% of people, a small minority can only rule over the
majority if the majority is divided and ignorant. Exercise your gifts which
get you closer to your real self, the immortal self, your time to awaken has
come.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">Awaking is the way out</span></div>
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<i><blockquote>
Make no mistake about it – enlightenment is a destructive process. It has
nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the
crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretense.
It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true. –
Adyashanti
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Spiritual awakening is no walk in the park. You'll discover your own ugliness,
your lies, pretense, hypocrisy, fears... a pain itself. Thin-skinned,
heart-oriented, addicted-to-comfort, need not even start the path of
awakening. And if you decide to do it, leave your hopes behind. It’s an
illusion anyway.
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In order to gain the ability to learn about yourself, to have fun with your
inherent hypocrisy, and to have a good sense of humor in regards to your
sleepy consciousness as an imperfect human being, you must first have the
capacity to see things as they are, which requires brutal self-honesty,
ruthless self-investigation and self-observation.
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Brutal self-observation forces you to face your own demons. It pushes you to
confront your most personal stupidities and to question all authorities,
especially yourself. It forces you to face the abyss of the human condition,
seeing clearly unavoidable truth: impermanence.
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You discover that you are just another mortal being. The discovery slaps you
across the face with its absolute mockery of your situation. You face the
universe and your existence as the almighty cosmic joke, making damn certain
you realize we’re the subject of that joke.
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For that reason, it is of paramount importance that you use your sense of
humor. When you laugh at yourself you loosen up. A bit. You suddenly go from
being the subject of the joke, to laughing at the joke. When you can laugh at
yourself you are allowing yourself to be insane and to know that you're
insane. </div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">Self observation, remembrance and honesty leads to humility</span></div>
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Without self-honesty, you’re stuck with the comfortable day-to-day deception,
suppression, oppression and finally depression. After discovery that
impermanence is only permanent thing in this universe you will start seeing
your own lies. You will see that everything you think, say and do are just
projection of your lying mind.
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This one is arguably the most painful. The culprit of all seeing is the seeing
that you don't exist. Ah simple words which do not make any sense. Are they?
The essence of you will never admit this, but truth is there like an abyss
staring into you. The real you is no-thing and you have to see it for
yourself.
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Yes, I am talking about your ego annihilation process, a burning down of your
expectations and hopes, a total disintegration of your personality. And you
descend. And so you lose yourself and you may scream out. The only way to
proceed at this point is humility, the scary, uncomfortable state of
forgiving. It’s a tearing down of the walls that protect you from the world.
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<div>Humility hurts because it is the ultimate letting go of yourself.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192138211400748234.post-32400957975726654862024-03-02T07:43:00.013-05:002024-03-04T08:01:35.824-05:00What have you learned in your life?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="888" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1esgtI4JMA8idRAw9fkTrc0Jhxq5hJoB52FR5JxdzACa0PU-1VxVPrAxg2_w7Mrsy9Fu7ZuN4qZ6b-evvHcS14IFeAX6frS__IUVRY9NFQ_2mDxEN5D090KHPa5s8v5Y9Vd8WGRbFx5mFPqGP3pGSXnGnWNDojHAohaSICyUVvV0exEVbwvVtfcw5/s16000/Important-life-lessons.jpg" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Do you like my new blog layout? You can leave a comment so I can read your knowledge, understanding and wisdom. </div><div><br /></div><div>I have a question for you: </div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">What have you learned so far... in your life? </span></div><div><br /></div><div>Please leave a comment in this post, highlighting things that you have learned in your life. It will be interesting to read, lets write together today's post.</div><div><br /></div><div>I'm writing blog in the last 11 years. My first published post is dated a way back on December 6, 2013. Since then I write and write... </div><div><br /></div><div>I will start from myself. So far in my life I learned not to trust my mind - all this makeup, this personality. It is my shocking discovery that I'm so fickle. I don't know how others see me but I see that I am a complete mess.</div><div><br /></div><div>This is a little bit harsh and bold statement so let me be more precise.</div><div><br /></div><div>If go to bed around 10 PM and I always decide not to get up until 5 or 6 AM. But this is what actually happens... After 3 or 4 hours of sleep I open my eyes being woken up by some contradictory thoughts I had became aware. This contradiction in my thinking wakes me up, all the time. </div><div><br /></div><div>Then I get up, around midnight, have 2 or 3 cups of coffee, I read world's news on the net, listen YouTube music... doing nothing, just wasting my time. I completely disregard my decision not to get up but to continue to sleep.</div><div><br /></div><div>Of course around 5 or 6 AM I am sleepy again, so I go to bed and this time I sleep until 8 or 9 AM. Then, being late for work, I hurry to log in at the laptop. Again, 2 to 3 cups of coffee to get me going and my day starts.</div><div><br /></div><div>You can ask me, why don't I change this? Believe me I tried so many times but with no luck. I still do the same thing. This sleeping pattern screws my yoga practice big deal. At present I do yoga around 5 or 6 PM, in the afternoon after work. I was supposed to do it in the early morning but as you see I cannot.</div><div><br /></div><div>This is why I said, I cannot be trusted. I decide something but completely opposite thing happens.</div><div><br /></div><div>I learned in my life that having friends, the companions, is very important. Loneliness kills us. Outside it is an epidemic of loneliness. Loneliness and offensiveness are two main characteristics of this sick society.</div><div><br /></div><div>Everyone is so easily offended, by weather, by slow driving, by line ups, by words... especially by words. "I feel offended" you can hear everywhere... so fucking what, if you are offended? Fuck off, trim your self-importance so you will not be so easily offended!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div>What have you learned in your life until now? You know, major things... important things.</div><div><br /></div><div>Know well that nobody really cares about you. You are the only person who can take care of yourself and only person who know what you do, feel and think, so make your priority list and put yourself at the comment bellow.</div><div><br /></div><div>Come into my life, play your role of the reader and leave the comment, but don't get too much emotionally attached. The reason you are able to live your life till now, is indication that you have learned many things. They are your silent protector. Tell me and the rest of the world about it.</div><div><br /></div><div>Please don't compare yourself with others. You're unique in your own way. And don't try to please anyone. </div><div><blockquote>I don’t know the secret to success, but the secret to failure is trying to please everyone ~ Bill Cosby.</blockquote></div><div>It is your turn now... the comment section is bellow. 😉</div></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192138211400748234.post-89415142842422485992024-02-28T06:18:00.000-05:002024-02-28T06:18:55.634-05:00Why do you keep searching for love?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="888" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlMTGlegmTWAumaRue4GgGciglu0j34kuc1KKVAjJhWbxsG_0xSFqgFqNuRjOCGUINKQGtlpw26bLfkylSde4FQ9Cgk6c88gBJ3TSpcX99m039t1KnH1PNNGSSRyT3z6wg5FbZodatPaU5Rk1h0jA62uM-gpEF0B2fazZOQq1nwh8ALgqVLxuhx_Ej/s16000/figer.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">You got it all wrong my friend. In deep recess of your personal make up you strongly believe that part of your nature is to seek relationships that will help you feel understood, heard, and accepted. If you look closely, though, you may see that you searching for validation of yourself shows your low self-esteem, nothing else.</div><div><br /></div><div>The indication of low self-esteem is exactly craving for acceptance and validation because it helps boost non existent persona, and this is essential for continuation of self imagination. </div><div><br /></div><div>Your search for love! Had it a beginning? Will it have an end?</div><div><br /></div><div>I hear you, your problem is that in today’s world, finding somebody you can trust and build a meaningful relationship with is very, very difficult.</div><div><br /></div><div>According to the online dating site Match.com, as many as 8 out of 10 people will date online at some point in their lives. Modern dating has become impersonal, superficial, based on appearance rather than a character.</div><div><br /></div><div>But, lets not go to challenges of modern dating. To understand why this is happening, lets first examine what love is and why you are seeking it. So here is the question for you:</div><div><br /></div><div>In your search for love what exactly are you searching for? </div><div><br /></div><div>What would you prefer, to love or to be loved? </div><div><br /></div><div>Whichever way you put it, unless you love there is no happiness. </div><div><br /></div><div>However, does love make you always happy? </div><div><br /></div><div>If you loved one suffers, don't you suffer too? And do you end your love, because you suffer? Must love and happiness come and go together? </div><div><br /></div><div>I will tell you in plain words what's going on... My friend your love is merely the expectation of pleasure!!!</div><div><br /></div><div>If you don't agree with me, then what is love? </div><div><br /></div><div>For me, love is a state of being rather than a state of mind.</div><div><br /></div><div>You don't need to know that you love in order to love. Did you not love your mother unknowingly? Your craving for her contact, for an opportunity to love her, is it not the love itself? </div><div><br /></div><div>Love is a part of you. You loved your mother, because you loved her.</div><div><br /></div><div>Go down to the very roots of your Self. It is your complete ignorance of yourself, that covered up your love and happiness and made you seek for what you had never lost. </div><div><br /></div><div>Being happy and making others happy - this is love.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pqwpXlCudcw" width="320" youtube-src-id="pqwpXlCudcw"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Bluebird by Charles Bukowski</i></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192138211400748234.post-19207214312890752532024-02-27T03:20:00.005-05:002024-02-27T08:53:16.678-05:00You have a unique opportunity!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="831" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFSeKQ-nsyTqIGuvECt0heyPx42D41pBJlAG_CoZmLt7-The9wROUybVJLsDn3zd7TBhkOaBmll9XuqqXTL0KZDEBz3hITTgVl2yXFg-465z2ryU7VW3R3tUBgZrwXlAUpPhOaG8Y_NpCid2bZ-TVpfwss9V7vWiyUH_R_nv6s2v6S-9mPhmQPB3bo/s16000/twoworlds.jpg" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>zmark.ca</b></i> blog has new layout. I worked hard to modernize it, make it prettier, easier and with more content loaded on demand so it makes the overall page load time faster. I also make comments available for anyone who wants to do it. </div><div><br /></div><div>I modernized my blog but I am fully aware that this will not bring me more blog views. </div><div><br /></div><div>We are living in interesting times. According to Chinese saying that is at the same time a blessing and a curse. We see the world is changing and we are supposed to change with it but the most of you want to remain the same.</div><div><br /></div><div>You are simply ignorant of truth. You don't want to consider facts, you stick to your old beliefs so you have no chance to realize <i>who you really are</i>. And that is so sad, because by realizing <i>who you really are </i>your world would drastically change. Your loneliness, poverty, stress and misery would be replaced with abundance, happiness and love.</div><div><br /></div><div>Some of you are religious people. You believe in God. That's very nice. You believe of death of God then resurrection of God. You use the word God or Christ, Jesus, the word Lord and in a way it all conveys the sense of an existence someone or something outside of yourself.</div><div><br /></div><div>I am here to tell you that you have the wrong concept of God or Christ. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you. If you take God to be something outside of yourself you've got the wrong God. </div><div><br /></div><div>The God was crucified and it is crucified on you and the only cross that he ever bore is the cross you wear by not knowing this (and not accepting this). </div><div><br /></div><div>Ignorant people search for the Christ's burial place not realizing that it is so near. Jesus Christs has been buried inside your mind. That's where he's buried and he will rise out of that. </div><div><br /></div><div>I don't blame you for being ignorant. But by coming on my blog something inside you wants to wake you up. It wants you to read this and follow that...</div><div><br /></div><div>A way back to your childhood... at the moment when you first recognized your mother, at that exact moment you came to be aware of your own existence. </div><div><br /></div><div>But mother taught you, in ignorance, that you are the body and you believe it. That happened a long before your mind started to think. So right from the beginning, because of ignorance, God does not know itself and because of the body it started knowing itself as "I".</div><div><br /></div><div>Now, because of the ignorance you have to ask yourself <i><b>Who am I?</b></i> You have crucified Christ because of wrong teaching. </div><div><br /></div><div>All these births with your ever new desires, hopes and expectations... well, it takes so much time the self to understand the Self.</div><div><br /></div><div>You have tied around you so many concepts - birth, death, self, personality, individuality etc. Similarly, your concepts of good and evil are unnecessary. You have develop these concepts and are caught in them. It is your cross. Stop wrapping up and loosing yourself in such concepts.</div><div><br /></div><div>Personality and individuality should be thrown away. There is no entity so there is no personality and no question of birth, life and death. </div><div><br /></div><div>What is, is only consciousness (presence) without name and forms. There is no individuality at all. The world needs forms and names, this is how it functions, but without any individuality.</div><div><br /></div><div>Start from there.</div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192138211400748234.post-4830785135148995942024-02-26T05:24:00.020-05:002024-03-16T04:28:55.612-04:00What Is Meditation?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="851" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVlvpfe0oM_ny8sDj9o0Bb4cqDi_ETMdGwlUwk_72rIZpqcRIPCkKrrPUilvF97ngbG7HCn9unZZSzwvkIqReudj2UGwWSekRC1UIrd0GkpbyGYh_CzZkWlvhLkMgCpx0nI8joMk44QX6pFVIQb4OmhYTXvZJbvIE3HEa2cHNeqi3TFAfZcpmnd12y/s16000/zee-meditation.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">If you have problems and worries with which you are concerned, you will find out these problems and questions are based on your identity with the body and mind as an individual. If that identification is not there then no worry can arise.</div><div><br /></div><div>What are you thinking during 24 hour day? What you are discussing inside in your mind flow? Are you constantly preoccupied with your daily affairs without any attention on your sense of existence?</div><div><br /></div><div>You are according to the quality of the intensity of your thinking. In this world you have only attention nothing else is really yours. Where are you placing your attention? </div><div><br /></div><div>Body consciousness gives you knowledge of your existence. The world and the body consciousness are not different, it is the same, identical thing.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">Stabilize in awareness</span></div><div><br /></div><div>You know you are - that itself is awareness. Effortlessly, with confidence stay in the knowledge of your existence. Do nothing, place your attention there and observe.</div><div><br /></div><div>For daily worldly affairs protect your body but don't identify with the body. You have the knowledge "I am" that comes from body. Be attentive to that fact.</div><div><br /></div><div>The moment the feeling "I am" appears, the world appears. "I am" is not just related to your body creation, it is not in isolation. The knowledge "I am" is like air, it is knowledge as such. By being aware of your "I am" knowledge you will gradually lower identification with the body. When that happens you will be aware that "I am" sense is not separate, you will be aware of "I amness" or Beingness which you know better as sense of presence.</div><div><br /></div><div>Observe "I amness" or presence carefully by doing absolutely nothing. Just be with attention prior to words, without any efforts.</div><div><br /></div><div>Beingness, Knowledge, Consciousness, "I amness", Presence, Existence, Awareness... are the same thing. They are different words for your attention. They are used in different perspective but they point to this: you are different from it. You <i>as you really are</i> are aware of it. Whatever you can be aware of you are not that. This is the final understanding, the self-realization.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">With what identity do you recognize yourself?</span></div><div><br /></div><div>Everything, all teachings and spiritual practices come down to a single issue: What is your deepest, the final conviction, of who you are? </div><div><br /></div><div>Without feeling "I am", still you are!</div><div><br /></div><div>Just as you are not your clothes that you wear, similarly you are not this body. That is most important step. Slowly and effortlessly realize that you are just like space, the beginning and end of everything. </div><div><br /></div><div>Start with the body. From the body you get knowledge "I am". Don't get involved in the daily experiences. Observe them staying in the knowledge "I am". Just be. This is how you dissolve identification with the body. </div><div><br /></div><div>You are slowly coming to conclusion that the world is spontaneously happening out of whatever your real nature is. You are free from the world feeling your self not to be an individual, finally you realize there are no others, it is all consciousness.</div><div><br /></div><div>When your individuality is dissolved you will not see individuals anywhere, it is just functioning in consciousness.</div><div><br /></div><div>To be one with THAT by which you know you exist is meditation. </div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192138211400748234.post-18106391467251053922024-02-24T03:28:00.008-05:002024-03-16T20:24:06.019-04:00What kind of world are we living in?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="836" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY_NVT6MFaoA0cpcymFAOL3yCEyFRtmvTkaC8TQ_K7gVhCA4azLUnxSOemQPjpanz2qmXgud3KaXapG4Fj3ez1KFpxlFkaxGueDi_zlbQo2Tt0BJyWWzW4xeMc0R94egdaVYBriB_SB_mLH47wRIB5W_vtGJXbZKYL51A6iLZ5My-zXPTLDAVI1eJ1/s16000/worldd.jpg" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>
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Global Corona vaccine tragedy. Wars. Climate change, carbon tax. Fake news.
Corporate fascism. Rise of AI. Hunger. Loneliness. Epidemic of stress... and
many more things causing disturbance and a feeling of being helpless and lost
amongst many.
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The face of hunger in Canada is real, the numbers are here. Year 2023:
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<i>Number of Visits - There was a total of <b>1,935,911</b> visits to food
banks across Canada in March 2023 – up <b>32%</b>.</i>
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<i>Children - <b>33%</b> of food banks users in Canada are children, while
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<i>Singles - <b>43.8%</b> of food banks users in Canada are single adult
households, while representing 29.3% of the population.</i>
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<i>Seniors - Seniors represent<b> 8% </b>of Canadian food banks users, with
the rate of increase far out-pacing other age groups.</i>
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<i>Social Assistance - <b>42.4%</b> of Canadian food banks users are on
social assistance or disability-related supports as their main source of
income.</i>
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<i>Employed - <b>1 in 6</b> of those accessing food banks in Canada are
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I don't know if the world as it is now, is just a beginning or an end. This is
my observation. It is so difficult not getting involved in appearance... it is
a hard thing to swallow. When I start thinking about our word at present time
I try to remember...
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I AM THAT by Maharaj Nisargadatta</span>
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Questioner: Every morning I pick up the newspaper and read with dismay that
the world's sorrows -- poverty, hatred and wars -- continue unabated. My
questions are concerning the fact of sorrow, the cause, the remedy. Don't
brush me off saying that it is Buddhism! Don't label me. Your insistence on
causelessness removes all hope of the world ever changing.
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Maharaj: You are confused, because you believe that you are in the world, not
the world in you. Who came first -- you or your parents? You imagine that you
were born at a certain time and place, that you have a father and a mother, a
body and a name. This is your sin and your calamity! Surely you can change
your world if you work at it. By all means, work. Who stops you? I have never
discouraged you. Causes or no causes, you have made this world and you can
change it.
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<div>Q: A causeless world is entirely beyond my control.</div>
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fully within your power to change. What is created can be always dissolved and
re-created. All will happen as you want it, provided you really want it.
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<div>Q: All I want to know is how to deal with the world's sorrows.</div>
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M: You have created them out of your own desires and fears, you deal with
them. All is due to your having forgotten your own being. Having given reality
to the picture on the screen, you love its people and suffer for them and seek
to save them. It is just not so. You must begin with yourself. There is no
other way. Work, of course. There is no harm in working.
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Q: Your universe seems to contain every possible experience. The individual
traces a line through it and experiences pleasant and unpleasant states. This
gives rise to questioning and seeking, which broaden the outlook and enable
the individual to go beyond his narrow and self-created world limited and
self-centered. This personal world can be changed -- in time. The universe is
timeless
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M: To take appearance for reality is a grievous sin and the cause of all
calamities. You are the all- pervading, eternal and infinitely creative
awareness -- consciousness. All else is local and temporary. Don't forget what
you are. In the meantime work to your heart's content. Work and knowledge
should go hand in hand.
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Q: My own feeling is that my spiritual development is not in my hands. Making
one's own plans and carrying them out leads no where. I just run in circles
round myself. When God considers the fruit to be ripe, He will pluck it and
eat it. Whichever fruit seems green to Him will remain on the world's tree for
another day.
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along with us.
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will be no space on earth
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is a simple God and rather helpless. He has no power to compel us to be wise.
He can only stand and wait.
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accidental? And if it is. the only thing you can do is to go beyond it.
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192138211400748234.post-62977589853458310772024-02-19T20:04:00.016-05:002024-02-21T05:48:12.603-05:00Death Is a Lie<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="877" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOvHYd7N_aFmOdKLI6UqkVg8wgeI8tBWGp0eT8I80aPCxTCN6fLEn9CnRsPHWW83SOQ4_5BOwzvQ2oprbX48fr87b7p5FF7pff9wABMOzn9EVyfnfDTGxMs_1i38qz0NN_bI6hqWH1GRM0jJj66m6UKZscjnPXLtsme8_E4DCNxTr0XRCkRRXCkMgd/s16000/philosophy-of-death.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.zmark.ca/2024/02/truth-about-your-birth.html"><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Yesterday I wrote about birth</span></i></a> and today lets touch upon death. It is interesting how these important subjects have almost no views at all; only 24 (twenty four) views so far on yesterday's post. The ignorance of people towards philosophy, psychology and metaphysics are beyond my understanding. I have no explanation for this. No one is interested in the subject of existence, self and the meaning of all this; the subjects that constitute a happy and fulfill life.</div><div><br /></div><div>What can I do? I will continue doing what I do...</div><div><br /></div><div>I don't have any compassion when I hear that someone has died. I am not sorry for that person and I have no feeling of loss. I noticed this in conversation with other people. </div><div><br /></div><div>I thought I have no compassion because my twin sister has died in age of 55 in 2020. I thought, since then I stopped caring about other deaths but now I've realized that my understanding of death goes beyond my personal loss and grief.</div><div><br /></div><div>There is no death! It is a big lie, like everything else in this world.</div><div><br /></div><div>I have read so many articles and watched so many videos on the theme of "after death experience" of patients who died and then "came back" to tell us the stories of beautiful colors of heaven etc. But my own investigation has lead me to believe that this is just imprint of consciousness left on brain cells, nothing else.</div><blockquote><div><i>As a small kid I played with my friends a really dangerous (what I know now) game. Namely you will stay besides a wall, inhale deeply and hold breath, and some else will push hard into middle of your chest, on your diaphragm. Suddenly you will lose consciousness and fall on the floor but you will remember what you see... You will stay for a minute, without consciousness and then you will wake up. And indeed, for you this period is longer, you see beautiful colors and strange, beautiful dreams...</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Once, my neighbor saw what we were doing and reported this to my mother, so on the end I was beaten for playing this.</i></div></blockquote><div></div><div>Did you ever wonder why dead people never come back? </div><div><br /></div><div>I gave you the answer yesterday. What has been born is actually <i>wishes, desires and self-life-world understanding</i>. All this vibrate around imagination of the 'I am" sense.</div><div><br /></div><div>I told you that "I am" sense is a sense of presence but it is much more than that. It is Power, it is your Beingness, it is Consciousness and much more... but It is an imagined thing. </div><div><br /></div><div>First thing in the morning upon waking up, you imagined sense of "I". It is like a center of the wheel. On that imagination <i>the wishes, desires and your understanding</i> vibrate and rotate the wheel. On the edges of the wheel is the world. The wheel has another name, it is better known as personality or individuality, take it as you wish.</div><div><br /></div><div>When you take a rope and put a stone on the end and then you rotate the rope so fast that you see only circle made of that stone. That is exactly how this world is created. It is said the world is reflection of yourself so now you can understand why it is so. The world is expression of your self.</div><div><br /></div><div>You live your life as a person, deeply wrapped in your personality having your own view of the world. Good or bad are according to the circumstances but you interpret good and bad according to your expectation.</div><div><br /></div><div>Everything that is based on an imagined things is also imagined and "<i>imagination</i>" means that it has no existence. Only truth is existence and That is you as <i>you really are</i>! What has no existence is a lie. The world is visible, it is out there, but it is imagined. just a concept, an abstraction.</div><div><br /></div><div>If I tell you - <i>White House, Washington DC</i>... what image you have in your head? It is not the one of a house with bricks painted in white... but you imagined power, presidency, US state, etc.. etc.. This applies to every single sentence you hear. You interpret it in a conceptual manner (according to your understanding, experience, previous knowledge and expectations of future). As a consequence you don't live a real life you live an abstract life.</div><div><br /></div><div>The fact is, the imagined entity (based on food that receives from physical body) living an abstraction (the concepts of mind). And then the physical body breaks, it stop functioning, so all this comes to the end. It is said the man has died. But how did he died when the man has never actually lived.</div><div><br /></div><div>Real never dies, the unreal has never lived!</div><div><br /></div><div>No one comes after the death because no one died. Ashes to ashes... physical body will be cremated or it will rotten by itself, the mind has stopped functioning so "I am" sense is not imagined anymore, the energy -<i> wishes and desires and general life understanding</i> is released into nothingness and in accordance to vibrational quality or so called frequency it is already passed to another person... </div><div><br /></div><div>All this is happening to YOU. </div><div><br /></div><div><i>You as you really are</i> are existence, nothing can touch you or change you or influence you in any way. If you are aware of <i>who you really are </i>you can observe the death of your personality. That is called self-realization, enlightenment, moksha, nirvana etc.. it is a final liberation.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192138211400748234.post-61306606134356461442024-02-18T08:40:00.017-05:002024-02-22T20:01:33.410-05:00Truth About Birth<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="888" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvAov9xNMnHenQrGXpeqi2uIO2RtTWxihEHgxABGQ0RVsubE0OyUnrYEop2JCPgKQ6FF2qCqSFh687Sx7LGOtLmNwoIUy2iS2G5bwK2RoYsPzpjozI42kU9MrcUqOi3LwrJ2N3MV7L4_HlZiIbk_qwJX_6UgVsAaQ19PMa0vZJZpGV3ax-sjMASTgO/s16000/truth-about-birth.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">You got this life for only one purpose - to know and be "<i>who you really are</i>"! </div><div><br /></div><div>"<i>Who you are</i>", well, obviously, you already are, but you are not aware of "<i>who you are</i>". The attention is the most important thing in life and it is the only thing that you really have.</div><div><br /></div><div>The main spiritual practice is keeping your attention in the place before words sprout. That place is a simple existence, it cannot be described. It comes before "I am" sense, before your feeling of individuality.</div><div><br /></div><div>"I am" sense is the sense of presence. It is a bridge between you ("<i>who you really are</i>"), the observer, and the world (the events happening around, including your physical body and your emotions).</div><div><br /></div><div>You cannot be responsible for the world. What's going on, what is happening should not be your concern. It is all random happenings. The events go on and on, spontaneously, effortlessly without your influence. Your main concern is how you process those events, how you see them, what do you think about them.</div><div><br /></div><div>You need to be concerned about "your" thoughts because thoughts carry you on and steal your attention, you easily forget "<i>who you really are</i>", you became what you think. </div><div><br /></div><div>Attention is a tricky matter, you are what you are aware of. So if you're thinking, you are that - unfortunately, you're nothing but an endless worry. </div><div><br /></div><div>The identification with thoughts vs expectations you have, generates your emotions. A simple statement that must be explained... </div><div><br /></div><div>You believe that you are born at the certain moment, you call it - birthday. Have you ever consider what was born? </div><div><br /></div><div>Two bodies, male and female, had fun time and in an act of ecstasy, a new body was created. The first 2 years, since the new body was created, that (I don't know how to call it) that ignorant body did not have a clue of its existence. It did not know itself. It was a pure ignorance, without any attention whatsoever, so others had to take care of it. </div><div><br /></div><div>In those 2 years the main thing for new created body was food. By eating, the body grows, internal organ develops... and not only that, the food brings "I am" sense too. Around 2 years after the birth, the body finally knows "I Am", it is aware of its existence. On that very moment attention is created.</div><div><br /></div><div>The food brings attention, the attention means awareness and that is life. </div><div><br /></div><div>Leave some food, leftovers from your dinner, in a hot day and soon, tiny worms will start mingling inside it... the life indeed comes from food.</div><div><br /></div><div>Anyway, the new created body after 2 years has "I am" sense, it now can be called "child" because it has started knowing its parents. The personality starts developing by constant repetition of words. The child interprets those words according to the wishes and desires brought forward from the moment of conception.</div><div><br /></div><div>This is what has actually been born.. <i>the wishes, desires and understanding</i>!!! They were taken from some other life, previous life, your life or some other life, from this or some other planet... whatever.</div><div><br /></div><div>On the base of "I am" sense the personality grows by every passing day. The child (personality) grows and it forms itself according to the original <i>wishes, desires</i> <i>and understanding </i>that is composed of... but I will not about personality, I wrote before, and I will write about it some other time.</div><div><br /></div><div>You, <i>as you really are</i>, have never been born. You exist! </div><div><br /></div><div>There is no death and birth for you. You exist forever and all this (the world) have come upon you by physical body. You gain life in order to find out <i>who you really are</i>. I may tell you but you need to understand and think this matter by yourself. </div><div><br /></div><div>-------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br /></div><div><i><u><span style="font-size: large;">Key points</span></u></i></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;">1. **Purpose of Life**: The purpose of life is to know and be aware of "who you really are," implying a deeper understanding of the self beyond mere surface-level identity.</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;">2. **Importance of Attention**: Attention is the key aspect of spiritual practice. By focusing attention on the place before thoughts arise, one can access a state of pure existence beyond individuality.</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;">3. **Sense of Presence ("I am" sense)**: The sense of presence is a bridge between the observer (the true self) and the external world. It's one's primary concern should be how they process events and thoughts rather than the events themselves.</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>4. **Identification with Thoughts**: Go against being consumed by thoughts, as this can lead to losing touch with one's true self and becoming overwhelmed by worries and expectations.</i></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;">5. **Origin of Self**: The sense of "I am" emerges around the age of two, influenced by the body's growth and development as well as the environment and interactions with others.</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;">6. **Eternal Existence**: The true self is eternal and not subject to birth or death suggests a continuity beyond physical existence.</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;">The introspection, mindfulness, and questioning of one's fundamental understanding of self and existence is what life is all about. This understanding of spirituality, psychology, and metaphysics gives you a perspective on the nature of reality and the human experience.</div></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192138211400748234.post-33596244398071780242024-02-15T00:51:00.012-05:002024-02-16T22:07:21.091-05:00There is no one to tell me what to do<div style="text-align: left;">
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<div>In all this randomness I try to keep
one constant thing... my yoga practice. I need to make sure that my inner
peace remains intact. The core of my daily practice addresses issues of my
laziness. What people think about me is not my concern. How I see myself is
something else.
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I have declared February as a month of ashtanga yoga. I've started 30-day yoga
intensive everyday practice. There are only one rule: every day ashtanga half
primary yoga practice... for the 30 days.
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Yoga can be anything as you want it to be. For me it is a physical pursuit,
keeping my body toned, strong and flexible. For others, yoga practice may be a
way to fight stress and the challenges of everyday living. And you should not
forget the practice of yoga as a meditation but I'm not so much into that
"mystical" aspects of yoga.
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Let me be clear, I don’t practice ashtanga yoga because I like it. Well I
don't. Who can like this bending, stretching and sweating everyday. I practice
because I must. Now I'm 59 and at this age, it starts all kind of the health
problems.
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I am doing an alternative health care by incorporating yoga as part of my
everyday life. So far, I have no problem with variety of ailments ranging from
back pain, high blood pressure, diabetes, arthritis, autoimmune diseases etc.
I believe in yoga and I believe that regular practice and the sweat cleaning
the organs of my body.
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My muscles are sore and I am tired after the practice. Yesterday I left twice
the yoga mat, I wanted to stop the practice but I returned and continued.
Three practices I skipped sun salutations because my shoulders were hurting so
much. I had to take Tylenol after the practice. But I continue...
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I’m sorry to say, if you’re looking for fancy yoga photos, you won’t find it
here. I'm not an expert, or teacher or advanced practitioner. I practice
Ashtanga yoga for 18 years now and my practice sucks big time.
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Yoga is expensive if you want to regularly practice in a yoga studio, or
wellness centers - how they call it now. The last time I went to yoga studio
was 2018 and they asked me on some paper at the entrance desk, a question: Why
I want to do yoga? I wrote without hesitation:
<i>I want to practice yoga because I want to melt the ice with my ass.</i>
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Have you ever seen how great yogis sit in the snow and how the snow around
them melts away from the intense heat they produce in their meditation? I want
to do the same! It is my life's goal.
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This morning, the first thing I've done after waking up is to check weather
forecast. I am sorry that we do not have rain, ice or even snow so I have to
practice with ice from the fridge. Believe me, I've done it this morning,
after half primary yoga practice and just after long shavasana, I went to the
balcony and sit on the pack of ice... what can I tell you. There is a great
movement in the right direction. After only 5 minutes, my underwear was
completely wet. 😛 I am so close to my life's goal. The rest of the day is all
about concentration, meditation and samadhi...
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<i>This practice becomes firmly rooted when it is cultivated skillfully and
continuously for a long time. – The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali 1:14</i>
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Joke on the side, the core of the February 30 day yoga challenge is
commitment. It means a promise and following through. It means stopping my old
wimpy excuses and laziness. It means sweating for 60 minutes every day for the
month.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192138211400748234.post-28499230317672516702024-02-14T10:52:00.005-05:002024-02-15T01:15:25.102-05:00Valentine's Day<div style="text-align: left;"><img border="0" data-original-height="824" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihSLl1tssRl_Ljgf5qqYYOt4wkRyvDBf_myV341eoM_4hIyU_AZGdw01qVJLcsAsLOJMcj_hrsNPXcoXhlJWbtQo5s_8eSV4laHL1o2Tc6lVopBvyJ7hIC6P4fUTPf2jQCF67WaBjKWviLivkrjDrzJqCs-2Czgh2OVrNdr4oJcqluZB-dOHVI_3k8/s16000/1703712173.jpg" /><br /><br /></div><div>If you strip down the cheesy love cards, and if you see things not so pinkly, the Valentine’s Day is really just a giant bullshit. It’s a disgusting symbol of our sick society. We have been forced to believe that romantic love, the representation of Valentine's Day, is so great, so awesome and so beautiful.</div><div><br /></div><div>I’m not saying this because I’m cynic and my wife is far away. I'm saying this because there’s nothing natural about Valentine’s Day. It’s a display of forced affection that makes me to vomit. </div><div><br /></div><div>I’m here today to tell you how I see it...</div><div><br /></div><div>The red color affection, love hearts and above the high level of bullshit importance placed on what is just a normal day of the week. This day is created and calculated by corporations and it is everything that’s wrong with men and women today.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Valentine's Day is celebrated by shitty self-important, big valets, men. The fake guys with their fake jobs and fake smiles. They pick up fake women with their fake lips, fake boobs and fake personalities getting wined and dined them hoping they will get laid. And they will.</div><div><br /></div><div>Most normal people on Valentine's Day feel like the whole world is against them, as they’re forced to try and find someone to love them. But why does romantic love needs to be the ultimate goal?</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">Why are we placing so much emphasis on the romantic love?</span></div><div><br /></div><div>We’re all after it, many, if not most, books, poetry, music, and films revolve around it. We all want a romantic relationship providing us with an undying love that allows us to live happily ever after and washes away our sorrows.</div><div><br /></div><div>But unfortunately, in the vast majority of cases, romantic love isn’t what it’s promised to be. It’s not a source of long-lasting happiness; it’s not an answer to our unhappiness and loneliness. And according to some, falling in love, despite its euphoria, does more harm than good. </div><div><br /></div><div>Just by looking at the many songs, poems, and stories about heartbreaks have been brought forth, we can see that pain is an undeniable part of the romantic experience. Broken hearts have led to periods of depression, intense and prolonged weeping, and even suicide and murder.</div><div><br /></div><div>When we fall in love, we set ourselves up for a situation that will unavoidably result in hurt, whether it’s sadness, anger, jealousy, or other grief.</div><div><br /></div><div>Flying high lends you low, and it hurts a lot... Falling in love can be an intense and enjoyable experience, its flip-side is equally fierce, namely, extremely painful. It’s no surprise that romance often, if not always, goes hand in hand with despair, deep sadness, and other forms of emotional pain. </div><div><br /></div><div>People are still stuck in the outdated system of men vs women, they’re still stuck on the idea that man has to make gestures and woman must respond appropriately. We’re still stuck on the prehistoric notion that man has to bring the food on the table and woman has to make a dinner and spread her legs.</div><div><br /></div><div>Romantic love is overestimated and it's not the only thing worth living for. Everything is phony in this society we are living in and just trying to be with someone, with anyone, that’s really nothing more than a fleeting hook-up between a guy who hasn’t had sex in six months and a woman looking for some attention, any attention.</div><div><br /></div><div>If love is real, you don’t need the special Day to show you appreciate it. You shouldn’t need one day a year to buy your woman pinkly chocolate and expensive flowers. Valentine’s Day is for people who don't know how to live and someone else has to tell them what to do, superficial and materialistic to the core, basically - the imitators.</div><div><br /></div><div>Isn’t there something more to romantic love, aside from it being an inconvenient source of suffering? As Bertrand Russel stated: “<i>love is a great misfortune to any human being.</i>” Regardless of how insane it may be, being consciously awake is only remedy to this.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192138211400748234.post-61300740869133301812024-02-13T21:59:00.012-05:002024-03-14T02:55:29.327-04:00Schopenhauer - What Someone Is<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="787" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnDUhD5Zdc3yT54EvD8DJUJUjhzoC996M4E42SJQG_PGcEef_REhyphenhyphentxcYeZC2CwWugMC29_n43v3Gsc2P_eA8mADAOde7zd81IihckBM-b_K-Rpc8FVsZ4hJuWxfS59sDrJx4IC8NVMeMIZvenzNRbur6kXLmHIYQXmiVoAl8g5mFotH8recLhXcWQ/s16000/IMAG3016.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Yoga is boring, writing about it is more boring, reading about it... well, is the most boring</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I will not write about my yoga practice. The February yoga challenge is going on, I do 50 minutes of ashtanga yoga every day and that's it. I will just post my photo and video of my yoga wheel pose, being 59 I am proud that I can still do it. </div><div><br /></div><div>Today, I spent considerable time reading about philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer. I think he was close to realization of things as they are. I like him.</div><div><br /></div><div>If you have missed philosophy lessons in high school, well, Arthur Schopenhauer is 19th-century philosopher who were writing about suffering and happiness that we experience during our lifetimes. He had a pessimistic outlook on life. He saw life on this planet as a disaster. He compared the human existence on the Earth to a prison sentence. He firmly were repeating that our lives are not naturally enjoyable but actually miserable.</div><div><br /></div><div>But despite the blackness of his view of life and our poor existence, Schopenhauer gave advice and suggested solutions to make this life endurable by lowering our suffering. In his work: <i>Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life</i>, he wrote how we can live our lives in such a way that we prevent misery as much as possible.</div><div><br /></div><div>I will not write about it, those are his ideas, if you're interested you can google it. This is my blog and it is about my ideas. 😏</div><div><br /></div><div>I found something worth of attention in the writings of Schopenhauer. </div><div><br /></div><div>Arthur Schopenhauer said that there are three things (our views) that decide our fate. The first one is "<i><b>what someone is,</b></i>" the second one, "<i><b>what someone has</b></i>," and the last one, "<i><b>how we stands in the comparison with others.</b></i>" </div><div><br /></div><div>I'm not interested about the last two but I'm intrigued to see that Schopenhauer's "<i>what someone is</i>" predominantly decides the quality of one’s well-being. And thus, within our personality, how we see ourselves, what we take who we are, hides the key to making life less miserable. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5DKAEK3UyUQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="5DKAEK3UyUQ"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">What Someone Is</span></div><div><blockquote><i>...what a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has, or how he is regarded by others. What a man is, and so what he has in his own person, is always the chief thing to consider; for his individuality accompanies him always and everywhere, and gives its color to all his experiences. In every kind of enjoyment, for instance, the pleasure depends principally upon the man himself. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life, Chapter II. — Personality, or what a man is</i></blockquote></div><div>It is an open secret of existence that you, my friend, don't pay attention to it. Lets talk openly. Forget philosophy and great words of Schopenhauer or anyone else. I urge you to sit down and decide for yourself - <i>what is "you"</i>? <i>What is your life</i> and <i>what is the world you live in? </i></div><div><br /></div><div>How you see yourself is how you experience the world and consequently how you feel. How you see yourself are glasses, the lens, through which you experience the events. </div><div><br /></div><div>Ask yourself - <i>Do you see yourself as a sense of presence? Do you take yourself as a simple "I AM" sense?</i> Or do you see yourself through your possessions, wealth, and your standing with others? These are two opposite views of how you position yourself to the external circumstances. </div><div><br /></div><div>It happens often, people gain fortune and fame but are simultaneously more miserable than when they were poor and unknown. (Matthew Perry from Friends is a great example and there are many others.) What’s the actual value of wealth and fame? </div><div><br /></div><div>How you take yourself determines the value of your existence! </div><div><br /></div><div>Seeing yourself as a mere sense of presence gives you unique opportunity, better to say - a capacity, of simply being happy and cheerful for no particular reason other than being so. Being happy for the sake of just being happy is the very meaning of existence. </div><div><br /></div><div>If you feel good, mentally and physically, the most simple things become pleasurable, and no money nor fame will be required to put a smile on your face. The cheerfulness is the best antidote to misery. Money cannot buy it, nor can fame. And the more you pursue these external things, the more you drive cheerfulness away. By chasing wealth you're on the way to misery.</div><div><br /></div><div>On the other hand, living by being aware of "I Am" sense, of the sense of presence, studying it, looking at it, knowing it well, making a friendship with your very Being and being receptive to it gives you abundance of cheerfulness.</div><div><br /></div><div>The cheerfulness is not a "<i>positive emotion</i>," but rather a state of your Being (of who you are) which is independent from external circumstances. </div><div><blockquote><i>We should add very much to our happiness by a timely recognition of the simple truth that every man’s chief and real existence is in his own skin, and not in other people’s opinions; and, consequently, that the actual conditions of our personal life, — health, temperament, capacity, income, wife, children, friends, home, are a hundred times more important for our happiness than what other people are pleased to think of us: otherwise we shall be miserable. And if people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and well-being are as nothing compared with other people’s opinions. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life, Chapter IV.— Position, or a man’s place in the estimation of others </i></blockquote></div><div>Well, that's it. It's getting late, almost 10 pm and due to Schopenhauer I did not do today's yoga practice. I will finish here the post and go on the yoga mat... I'll write about my yoga practice some other time. 😉</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192138211400748234.post-77585568501123967222024-02-12T00:03:00.001-05:002024-03-17T07:07:39.892-04:00What Is Spirituality?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="803" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcYIMpCAusLtQcipDCRFAbgeDi1RSpN_-yyy7_xCFanI0nVPgk1CeDjQELWm85WKmFf7ZeTSakRZ4Neup2nHXp8E_e-3K0gOVJxon-qFtia89Mw-6Um4Dy4ktH_m_Dho-PfwIXYOtH3kGP5FhRxOFeKmlqTS4yXaoqrG9JwK_FzwszicjV-A6s_Owi/s16000/20211030_144818.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">At some point in time you will certainly experience a feeling that there is something greater than the concrete world you live in. Whether this feeling is inspired by sudden change in your circumstances, the awe-inspiring view on the majestic sea, a mystery of death, or the feelings experienced in connecting with others, at that very moment you may start wondering what is this all about. </div><div><br /></div><div>On other hand, the boring, repeatable, daily life may also cause you to ask yourself - <i>Is this all there is?</i> Anyway, these feelings, moments and experiences form the foundation of spirituality.</div><div><br /></div><div>The most beautiful aspect of spirituality is that it is experienced differently by everyone. </div><div><br /></div><div>For some people, spirituality is about a devotion to a religion, to the faith, the believe in God. </div><div><br /></div><div>Others seek out a more personal connection with their spiritual side by engaging in activities such as yoga, meditation, spending time in nature or creative expression. </div><div><br /></div><div>Some people are vegetarians, some follow spiritual teachings of Buddhism, Hinduism, Zen etc... and some work for communities rather then for their own benefits. </div><div><br /></div><div>There is no right or wrong way of spirituality. </div><div><br /></div><div>What's important is to recognize that everyone is on his journey. Whether you are someone who's devoted your life to consciously follow some spiritual teachings or you're just starting to discover your own way, there are important lessons that can be learned from the path you follow. </div><div><br /></div><div>My spirituality is just living my life. How can I become more spiritual in my daily, everyday life? More spiritual for me means to be more aware in my daily activities. </div><div><br /></div><div>How can I make less mistakes and do only things that I want to do. How can I stop being influenced by people or events? To me, to be spiritual is to be in conscious connection with my true nature; to be self-aware. And self-awareness is a process rather than a destination.</div><div><br /></div><div>So what is my practice now? I simply live my life fully awake... How can I do anything else?</div><div><br /></div><div>I am conscious and aware of my feeling, I don't get into heated discussions, I don't defend my opinions. I become quickly aware of ever-increasing subtleties of my emotional life. </div><div><br /></div><div>I try to be awake meaning to be aware of my false personality and the whole makeup of it. And therein lies the lesson. Feeling and emotions inside myself are not actually "inside" but they are "outside" of myself. I am not my emotions. Knowing it I am doing what needs to be done. I see that nothing can trouble me but my own imagination.</div><div><br /></div><div>I have noticed that most people are working hard but getting nowhere. They think about the past or their future , the thoughts never stop. They simply live life inside their head, so such world, the world of the mind, is illusory. It is based on fleeting and lying memory, completely false imagination. Such world is not real, and yet to the extent that people believe that it is real, they are lost in a world of everyday life and they do not realize it.</div><div><br /></div><div>For me a good life is simply waking with a smile on my face feeling good -<i> nothing bothers me </i>is my main feeling. Everyone can live like that, so spirituality is the most important work in life. The mind and thoughts make you miserable while being awake makes you the richest person alive.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192138211400748234.post-54769470274879497872024-02-11T05:26:00.000-05:002024-03-10T22:47:50.575-04:00Life has no explanations<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxFLBRvY2yaJ2q9l72qrNV5QbWQ2N2Kacq1743y-LBZ5clZR2Vuo_g0c-rSkCJ_Sbt6XrRV0ykI2zRplhhKA0FxvhIWARIqadP5i1oDlaqeVhlyBwYjt4sWISDtKlFcg8qUn6lKEQ5Qgt7MFO543M1fbx3h9Kr61h87EB_AhHx09DFvB4twLIEjhow/s16000/life.jpg" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;">In this life nothing has any importance!</span></div><p>I am free to say that in 20 years of the investigation I have
discovered the truth - <i>in this world, and life, nothing has value</i>.
Worldly events force you to move, to make decisions , it arises the desire,
fear, anger, and you think that is "<i>you</i>". You get stuck talking to
yourself, explaining, hoping, trying to find any meaning in all this.<br /><br />Life
has no explanations to give. It is an empty, meaningless flow of events that
just go on and on. Whatever happens has little or no importance. People are
born, they live their pity lives... they eat, shit, fuck, work and work and
work more until they die.<br /><br />To find the truth, to
see what is real and to lead a genuine life is a goal of everyone. Life is
rarely straightforward as you may wish. It is both profound and simple, yet
process of understanding it tends to be very difficult, if not downright
complicated.<br />
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<i>Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert
integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the
creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. - Cecil Beaton</i>
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I understand that you exists not in order to achieve something but actually to
simplify things. You are here to cut through your crowded thoughts and
paranoia, to cut through your confusion and doubt.<br />
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<i>Don Juan categorized people into three types... One was <b>farts</b>, a
smelly fart - very assertive, ready to tell you - Fuck you, are you sure
that's the way to do it?<br /><br />The other, <b>golden piss</b> - the
sweetest, wonderful beings, they give words. They could die for you, or so
they say. They won't, but they say it, which is very nice - nicer than the
fart.<br /><br />The third type, <b>puke</b>. Not fart, not piss, just puke
- the kind that doesn't have anything to give, but promises the world, and
has you begging ...<br /><br />- Carlos Castaneda</i>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">What person type you are?</span><br /><br />Ah I know, the fearful one. Know that all fears come from uncertainty of who you are. You take yourself to be different than the world so that is causing a feeling that you are inadequate to deal
with that mysterious life that is threatening you.
<i>What will happen to you?</i> is always on your mind.<br /><br />The world
reflects your uncertainty and your fears. The world is a mirror projection of
yourself, of what you take yourself to be! Your uncertainty is haunting you. To
know this, it is wisdom.<br /><br />Enjoy the world, stop being afraid of
yourself by cultivating the good sense of humor. Understand and accept your
insignificance, stop all seriousness, enjoy life as it comes, from moment to
moment.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">Courage and optimism diminish with time</span><br /><br />As you grow older, as time is passing by, you are becoming more and
more a coward. With age you lack the courage to do or endure unpleasant things.
Some of you appear as cynics but actually you are just timid, easily intimidated
person.<br /><br />The house that you own, the money in retirement fund etc. do
not really protect you. It fools you. There is no security or any rest in this
world, the picture of old people on the beach is not realistic. It does not
show, the pills for high blood pressure, diapers, the lack of sleep, rheumatism
etc...<br /><br />With the age, you start remembering the most embarrassing crap
you did in your life with perfect clarity. The kind things you did will be
pushed away, you will forget them. Instead to correct yourself, you start
correcting other people in your life, your kids, spouse, neighbors, co workers.
With age you have a fleeting sense of superiority over younger people so they
start to resent you.<div><br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Dance, practically you are nobody</span>
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There’s no meaning to your life, no reward for achieving all the things
you've achieved. And please, stop saying that things were better back then
in your youth. When you were young, the life was cheaper, happier and people
were nicer. Oh well.<br /><br />You are on your life journey. Many of you
are on completely different routes than I am, it doesn't matter. We will all
finish at the same place.
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I have concluded that there is not such thing as truth. Everything that you
know is false, there are only lies. Life has no other explanation to give
you. You may have concluded something else but it is just matter of time
when you'll see that you were wrong.</p>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192138211400748234.post-44689050071128116572024-02-10T04:42:00.006-05:002024-03-10T22:36:59.057-04:00The greatest achievement of humanity<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="923" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibuiAVy9sGZDBE7_RTHCXMY_GPtD7yR_63EZzciW-r2RD-NMfonFtjKwDlljaUS9An3_7GJKMTXff8s-YVs09NZlHzk6kVzaCYQ0_u11FvgT1depPm21gIoAFMv0Z26sKl2T6-fe1MyJ0tRTb8IIjD1w0FrUD930Cc2spP6Yij2dKx-nWOrHLhlRFg/s16000/interview.jpg" /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Unfortunately, there are no large asteroids predicted to hit Earth soon. The object with the highest probability of colliding with Earth is the 1,100 feet (340 m) wide asteroid 99942 Apophis, which is predicted to get dangerously close to Earth in 2068.</div><div><br /></div><div>It is up to humanity to destroy this planet and to destroy itself. That will happen sooner than you think. Because humanity lacks self-identity. Human beings have become removed from the nature. The global devastation of species and ecosystems is happening on an ever increasing rate.</div><div><br /></div><div>The greatest notable achievements of humanity is simply that they haven't yet destroyed themselves.</div><div><br /></div><div>In the recent days, scientist have built unimaginable powerful killing machines, created biological agents of warfare, refused to take action on a social (and financial) inequality, starting playing god with other organisms, and learned how to use software to more effectively kill each other. </div><div><br /></div><div>It is a small miracle people are still here to appreciate their advancements. </div><div><br /></div><div>It is not just nuclear weapons that threaten humanity. Covid-19 was an example of biological warfare done on planetary scale, and it's just a beginning for other synthetic biology that could create new pandemics. </div><div><br /></div><div>Military complex is the richest industry on this planet. They don't stop making new way of killing fellow humans, so they came up with lethal autonomous weapons (or ”killer robots”) that can target and fire without human intervention. They have now succeeded to incorporate artificial intelligence into war via drones and other machines.</div><div><br /></div><div>The new threats are, like the old threats, products of human ingenuity and technological advancement. You're still imagining that you are living in a world of a democracy, and you may even still believe it, but in fact your life and fate is in the hands of a few ultra-rich, ultra-powerful and ultra-inhuman oligarchs. These non-humans are running our world without ever been elected.</div><div><br /></div><div>A simple look at today's world and how people operate will show you that people have become more and more like headless chickens, running around being busier than ever, anxious than ever, preoccupied with things that in reality do not matter, ever glued to their phones just like a junkie’s need for a fix.</div><div><br /></div><div>I find it deeply disturbing to observe how people becoming more and more selfish. And the irony is that, the selfishness is everywhere: I see it in parliaments, I see it in corporations, I see it within the media, I see it in any human interaction.</div><div><br /></div><div>All political leaders await their time to express their "<i>willingness to follow</i>" instructions from the fascist corporations.</div><div><br /></div><div>It is such a joke - human delegates, celebrities, government officials, entrepreneurs, CEO’s, wannabe-influences and whatnot - all communicate with the world and with each other via twitter and social media and applaud it to be as the greatest service to humanity.</div><div><br /></div><div>The crooked political system, distorted entertainment industry, false news and advertisements, phony medical and pharmaceutical industry, dishonest food industry, poor travel and working conditions, constant wars and lost of basic human rights are our world.</div><div><br /></div><div>Everyone is a slave and the slave tends to dream of becoming a master rather than of gaining freedom. The crux of the matter on which the whole ploy of the humanity rests is man's suggestibility, complacency and tendency to wishful thinking.</div><div><br /></div><div>How and why people become like this? Most people desire by nature to succeed, but what is success? </div><div><br /></div><div>People don't know what success is all about and since they don't know what it's about they really don't know where to look for it. Success is really nothing more than knowing who you are.</div><div><br /></div><div>Any person who knows what he is and where he's going is a success. You are success if you know why you're getting up in the morning and where you're going but conversely if you don't know what you are, what it is that you want, if you don't have a goal you're unsuccessful, your life means nothing. </div><div><br /></div><div>19 out of 20 of working people don't have the foggiest notion of why they're getting up in the morning and going to work And you're the one of them?</div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192138211400748234.post-91561301041656355552024-02-08T20:04:00.007-05:002024-03-14T02:55:25.479-04:00The Yoga Challenge Is Going On<div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="852" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilJvOWkwKf40Gtdm0CqAvtqRHSk47Si7aBfXkuBBxSc4Fc74NokWoO7UixOqkAFz0bSzyz_zeLZ_kq_726rR2A8PYFcmAj4g41MLnuB76GCD8nZ0c4DQZ_WgngTNoNEt07DZrJiEGh8fcJKIkR4pKLDexCAsQyyjh6bc2Qy7jNEp0N_f9drA2dp_LM/s16000/20240208_201937.jpg" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div>On today's date last year, on Wednesday, February 8, 2023, I badly fell on the ice injuring left shoulder, left arm and ribs. It took me almost 6 months to recover and since then I still sometimes have pain in my left side. </div><div><br /></div><div>After the fall almost 6 months I had sporadic yoga practice last year. I tried persistently to do it but left arm and shoulder pain was not allowed me to do the full practice. But that's all behind me.</div><div><br /></div><div>In February this year I am doing Yoga Challenge. I dedicated February 2024 to be the yoga month in the sake of the last year's injury.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">February's Yoga Challenge</span></div><div><br /></div><div>I will do 30 practices in a row all the way to March. I want to push myself slowly and gently, to get routine going, to keep up with yoga on daily basis. It is going to be hard, I'm tired and maybe pain in left side will return but I have to go through it. </div><div><br /></div><div>Since l came from Belgrade, I feel down, somehow lifeless, without motivation and energy. This week, I've started regular walking on Monday, and I walked every day to Jane street and back, about 4 to 5 km in total and that did make difference in my feelings. </div><div><br /></div><div><div>My friends, I urge you with all my might to start home yoga practice. You see, daily yoga practice at home can help you to stay healthy, have more energy, be calm and a little more happier in these gloomy and cold days.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">If you are completely new to yoga...</span></div><div><br /></div><div>First watch ashtanga yoga, 30 minutes, practice on YouTube videos. Choose the one you like and stick with it for some time. Watch each pose (or so called asana) and try to do it on your own. If you cannot do it find appropriate replacement for that pose.</div><div><br /></div><div>When you comfortable with all poses on that video then try to do vynasas and introduce breath count between them. Downward dog pose is very important to be known and practiced in a relaxed manner as well as you need a strength to do a lot of chaturangas (plank poses).</div><div><br /></div><div>Now, is there motivation for your home practice? That is another story. Start with something you can accomplish. 30 minutes video is a great start and your goal should be ashtanga full primary practice. Don't worry, you will learn all poses. You only need to practice every day.</div><div><br /></div><div>Practicing yoga in the morning is generally considered to be the best as it keeps energy levels high during the day. Yet, if it does not happen, don’t let it be an excuse to skip your practice. You are all day at home, so you have opportunity to do the practice even after 6:00 PM. So you will have no excuse to miss the practice. Yoga at 6 PM can also be a good way to refresh the mind and release stress collected during the day.</div><div><br /></div><div>You don't need a separate room in your apartment for daily yoga practice. It is enough to find a spare place besides your bed large enough to roll out your yoga mat. All you need to ensure is that your yoga space is clean, it is beside the window so it is well ventilated, and away from furniture or sharp objects. It is good to have the mat always on the its own spot just inviting you to do the practice.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">Do some strength exercises before doing yoga postures</span></div><div><br /></div><div>This is a great thing because you may be at risk of straining your muscles. I start by warming my body with 20 push ups and I do a few sets of stomach crunches.</div><div><br /></div><div>Then I do exercises for the arms, biceps etc. I respect my body and I don't do heavy lifting. Doing them decrease flexibility. It will only make my yoga practice more difficult and painful. So first strength exercises for about 10 minutes and then you start with sun salutation.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">The consistency is the major point</span></div><div><br /></div><div>It is very important to be regular with practice – make it a part of your daily schedule (as I mentioned above, find a time where you can comfortably fit yoga in) and then it is easier to make it a habit. 30 minutes of daily yoga practice is more likely to show positive results sooner than two hours of occasional practice.</div><div><br /></div><div>Practicing yoga alone, it might get boring after a while or you may simply become lazy. So try doing it with YouTube video and see the difference! The video can be a great way for motivation.</div><div><br /></div><div>Your yoga practice will help you to develop the body and mind bringing a lot of health benefits. However, my dear, when all this is over please go to yoga studio for some time. It is important to learn and practice yoga postures under the supervision of a trained yoga teacher for a time before you can fully be on your own at your home practice.</div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192138211400748234.post-45724397851695757322024-02-06T03:31:00.006-05:002024-02-16T22:45:15.944-05:00Living the fantasies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="813" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAhZiZF9QsftbaEXZIBVoaYe39ZMPqD8baP-JCHVtjovG2yWNXUunCA9U2vxKaUZa9eMdmSWFVgn3KxDhtH16NF5m9_KqXi4DCjev2chEIPT_VIE0N1YhVakgo9MiNi6SouoAwtnkwoATBBX07d8RwyzHOgmiMVX8jDB-1THGePzK6RA1kYI80iGKo/s16000/travelling-to-busy-cities.jpeg" /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">As I walk through this world searching for light in the darkness of daily insanity I ask myself is all hope lost? Is there only pain and hatred, and misery? Reading the news headlines I can hardly believe my eyes any more; the people's life is all so fucking packed to hide its shallowness and meaninglessness. </div><div><br /></div><div>I am not saying that I know something. I know nothing. I don’t have the answers, I get irritated when I read other people putting themselves out there as gurus, therapists, or doctors.</div><div><br /></div><div>I write gibberish and with a bad grammar I'm continuing to challenge your most common, widely accepted, beliefs. You are bound by your own concepts and notions. Think about it. If you cannot handle my posts, so be it. Go read something else for free, I'm not nagging you to be here.</div><div><br /></div><div>If you stay, don't read these posts from perspective of right or wrong, it is not important, really, by time, you will see that you and I are wrong about everything. And that is the meaning of life.</div><div><br /></div><div>As far as the truth is concerned, 98% of your thinking is rubbish. The remaining 2% is garbage!</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">Stupidity of your beliefs</span></div><div><br /></div><div>My dear friend, I have a great compassion towards you so I write and write... the same things over again, in different words. </div><div><br /></div><div>Your life directly depends from your belief, the idea of who you are. You don't pay any attention to that and that is your the biggest mistake. Instead of that you live your life setting up hopes, expectations and dreams measuring events as a success or failure. In the process you became covetous, greedy and coward.</div><div><br /></div><div>Unfortunately, on top of that you nourished yourself with fear.</div><div><br /></div><div>You're so self-important. So arrogant. You think you are rational and logical being, you talk about politics, spirituality, god and other high matters and you think you know everything...</div><div><br /></div><div>I'm quite certain, you're going away. Pack your shit guy, you're going away. And you won't leave much of a trace on this planet.</div><div><br /></div><div>That is the fair thing about your life, you won't leave a trace at all. What could you possibly leave here? You are living your life on this planet like you're at a giant shopping mall. The buy and sell mentality has squeezed out the last reminder of your consciousness. You, driven by greed, are extremely sick.</div><div><br /></div><div>The crooked political system, distorted entertainment industry, false news and advertisements, phony medical and pharmaceutical industry, dishonest food industry, travel and working conditions, constant wars and lost of basic human rights are your world.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">You simply don't want to be free</span></div><div><br /></div><div>You are a slave and you dream of becoming a master rather than of gaining freedom. The crux of the matter on which the whole ploy of your life rests is your suggestibility, complacency and tendency to wishful thinking.</div><div><br /></div><div>The present life, this life you're living is not a moralistic punishment for your fall as a human being, it is a natural consequence of a state of being, just as it is a natural consequence of being a chicken to sometimes get eaten by a fox.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Why don't you see this? It is so simple, it is enough to look around. I know, you are a work in progress, which means you get there (I do wonder where?) a little at a time, not all at once... but still?</div><div><br /></div><div>If you don't see your real situation, you’re asleep a good majority of the time; wishing you were kick-ass awake, creative persona or just plain awesome individual.</div><div><br /></div><div>But the sad reality is that you aren't doing anything to make dreams happen. You’re just living out the fantasies with your eyes closed.</div><div><br /></div><div>And so you end up dying a slow death on the inside. </div><div><blockquote><i>And you know, it's not just that it's a terrible way to live: it's not really life at all. It's not something you choose, it's what you get when you don't choose. We just marched ourselves into these damned idiotic, impossible lives without ever stopping to think about what we were doing. High school, college, post-grad and then straight into the workforce. Get married. have a kid, borrow money, buy a house. fill it with junk. have another kid, borrow more money. bigger house, more junk. It's completely insane, but that's how everyone I know lived. ~ Jed McKenna, Spiritual Warfare</i></blockquote></div></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">Think, contemplate, understand</span></div><div><br /></div><div>All is illusion, the 'you' is illusion, so whatever the 'you' do is also illusion. Remove the name and nothing remains. In final Reality there is no 'you', no 'I', no mind and no thought. That is your natural state.</div><div><br /></div><div>A clear cut understanding of a these things is awakening. Reality is not to be achieved, it is already here. After this thorough understanding, nothing is required.</div><div><br /></div><div>Understand that everything is nothing, life is a big lie. The sense of presence is all that you really have so stand beyond knowledge. Jut BE. Forget everything and immediately you are your what you are, in this very moment. There is nothing to reject and nothing to gain because everything is nothing.</div><div><br /></div><div>You are the Self without self. Understand that 'yourself' (personality) has no existence. You don't understand that illusion is nothing. Understand your mind and then it doesn't remain. Not remaining as 'I' is the highest understanding.</div><div><br /></div><div>If you want to realize your Self, you must devote your entire life to It. Otherwise, what is the use of life? Be fearless. Illusory 'I' has no real existence, the world has no existence. See that and be what you are - remain consciously in the the sense of presence.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192138211400748234.post-78316512374723787422024-02-04T21:42:00.018-05:002024-02-16T22:45:32.939-05:00The Biggest Embarrassment of My Life<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="789" data-original-width="1156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCigklTFx7DdOwgDk7iVSJvt97r9zBb6xZsMTjrihASHw0qCBwt1FJTSQZLqJ4CK3EUGkUoL2VvTQJqRl9RHrjr-la3oDdDpaEMF2JOdY3-FF9-ZI8i9cOMbXichqqli8Tqoj4-V0WKjPEwTPLV8t9-IL27kuqMCvClmiwBMI-hGlx4SbfIqQtDwHy/s16000/embarss.jpg" /></div>
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The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot
tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born
of the Spirit. ~ John 3:8
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My dear friends, tonight I'm going to write an entertaining post, the post
about the biggest embarrassment in my life. That was I thought, it was an
embarrassment, but now, when I look at that 18 years later, I think it was a
play of Spirit.
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You now the Spirit, the parental force of the universe that moves things
around us, that puts us in difficulties, that takes us out of troubles and do many other things with us.
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Did you ever recognized the play of Spirit in your life? Think about it,
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It was May 2006. It was 4 years since I started my self-realization journey. I
was reading a lot studying spiritual literature doing mediation and yoga. I
was 100% focused on my spiritual path. I cut my friends, I did not go out, I
was reading and reading doing zazen, practicing self-observation,
self-remembrance and many other things.
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In the beginning of 2006 I started doing yoga. I was a serious student of yoga
and I went to local yoga studio for classes. That May was a huge Yoga
Conference in Toronto. I selected 2 classes to attend. The both classes were
with a long time yogi <a href="https://www.dharmayogacenter.com/about/sri-dharma-mitra/"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Dharma Mittra</i></b></span></a>.
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The first class was on Friday, the Yoga Flow with music and the second class
was on Saturday, Yoga Purification, which is about ancient yoga cleansing
techniques. These techniques were taught by the teacher Dharma Mittra. He has
introduced these ancient yogis techniques to the West, not only for health
purposes but also to reach higher states of meditation.
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I was so excited to attend these classes. The first class Yoga Flow was
amazing, it fulfilled my expectations. It was difficult, a lots of
modifications of basic sun salutations, the Hare Krishna music was loud, it
was an incredible experience. On the end, after almost 2 hours, I was so
tired, I could see the flashes of light around and inside my head in
shavasana.
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I felt great and I was eager to came on Saturday to learn about mystic yoga
techniques.
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The class started with yoga sun salutations, a little stretching standing
poses, for some 15 minutes and then teacher Dharma MIttra called us that we
sit down around him. It was around 50 to 80 yoga students, I cannot exactly
say how many but a lot.
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Dharma Mittra was teaching us about importance of yoga. He said that yoga is
not just physical practice of asanas but much more. Yoga includes observances,
rules, and guidelines for leading daily life. He read from Yoga Sutra
scriptures that describes five different tings in yoga life-style:
cleanliness, contentment, self-discipline, self-reflection, a will
surrendering to a higher power.
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It was quite interesting and I was listening carefully. Suddenly I felt someone
pushes my ribs with a folded peace of paper. I was a bit disoriented I got the
paper and open it, on there it was written:
<i>Jennifer, f*ck me,</i> and a telephone number. I was stunned. I turned
around, a nice looking 30-something blond in orange top and yoga paints was
smiling on me. She was beautiful looking young woman.
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I was confused, I turned around my head facing teacher Dharma but my body
reacted. I got aroused having hard on, yup, high up in the air.
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I could hear the teachers words that we should cultivate sexual energy, change
our habits for healthy living and make our life meaningful, the 'spiritual
existence' as he said... while I had the erection of my life, I could see in
the corner of my eye the gorgeous woman in orange.
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I thought then that everyone saw what is happening. I was red, confused, even
angry. Why this happened? Why then and there? I don't know even to this day. I
got up, I did not care if anyone see my hard on.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="690" data-original-width="1000" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxS32fKshOz6SF_5EbAg8V_6nzwROQrn0DgE4E6QvIGGHdbBdXv8anlIdWXPtSN-NDOMktxF4n9QzrPgPglllLpa-WCP2sohAA-Cl9wXUK0iezZCr5zVtiO87K1lymU3o4FML9EvJMDNQemgaE_y_R-xUcsyvWvzvRXuhoXAyXN1PgpDNlUbydXp6f/s16000/leftclass.jpg" /></div><div><br /></div><div>I left the class, quickly
dressed up and went home. I was disappointed in myself, in spirituality, I was angry, so angry. On my way home, I ripped off that peace of paper. Oh my god, how many times I regretted that.</div>
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