Macrobiotic Life

As I see the things today, as my understanding tells me….

The humanity’s problem is not solvable by doing anything, just the opposite. The well known wu-wei, not doing.

An ancient Zen teacher said, “The Way is always with people, but people themselves chase after things.”
He addressed their chase after Enlightenment, but the same is true for anything else. The constant chase for tasks to do, things to posses, places to see, superficial entertainments to enjoy and even when we think are have enough, we want to finally help the world, do something good, we start to chase “good doing” things, helping the world, to people, animals, nature and so on. The mind is still wanting more and more of anything.

From an energetic point of view, it can be visualized like this: our world is spiraling within two main forces, two opposite energies and the bigger is one side, the bigger is another – this is again the well known taoistic (and other teaching’s) principle. The point here is to understand what the real wu-wei does mean. It can’t be grasped directly by our minds as non-doing, doing of nothing, because what would it look like in the end? Lying, sitting? Can you breath, eat? The logic is, the non-doing does mean that you surrender yourself to the world of Unknown, starting with the mind. Just letting the mind function without our grasping (which is the doing) of thoughts. In this wu-wei state of mind, she (I just see the mind as her) becomes spontaneous, clear, mindfull, present, loving, compassionate, because these are her born states.

Duality is still unwinding, even with this mind, but we are not making mess in these energy waves. They just naturally flow, according to the rules of the Universe (of the God or many other names for this). The point is – if we are Doing, grasping thoughts, this is causing so called karma (action/reaction) and whatever we decide to do in this state of mind is immediately creating the opposite energy somewhere else. For example, if I decide to do a revolution, or help the children in Africa, or donate to some organization, if I do any of this because of the thought process consisting of many of my personal beliefs, ideologies, then this all is causing false solutions, and it leads immediately to creating the same problems as I am trying to solve. Because I can’t solve anything with the mind full of false beliefs, with living in my personal belief illusion. Only after dropping all beliefs, all comparisons, especially belief in my individuality, in myself, then the mind is starting to become present, to just simply see and only from this state is sprouting the real action, which is actually no-action, wu-wei, because there’s no-one who is the Doer, because you loose your sense of Ego – Ego is just another false belief, another thought process.

To achieve this original state of mind is possible by simply letting things go, dropping all, without any effort, just simply watching, observing, in other word – meditating. But be aware, there are much more techniques which are not the meditation as the gurus intended, but they are only a psychological methods for happier life – they are serving you with the happier face of the duality and sometimes they work so well, that you are satisfied with them for a long time – but the real meditation is about pure watching, pure acceptance, not about seeking the pleasant feelings – there’s pain and pleasure, so be it.

From the book – Buddhism is not what you think – by Steve Hagen (great book btw):

In every moment we step into a new situation. Usually we have a plan or agenda for it. It’s not wrong to have a plan, but it’s far more urgent that we keep our eyes open in each moment and see what’s happening now. And sometimes, since nothing’s standing still, our plan may become a hindrance, especially if we’re attached to it. And if we’re not paying attention to what’s actually going on, we ’ll not see all the possibilities
that constantly unfold.

To act or not act is not the real question. For the awakened, what comes first is simply being awake—seeing what’s going on. And in seeing what’s going on in this moment, appropriate— that is, natural—action can occur.

Kuei-shan said, “Why interfere?” When we act out of seeing, we are no longer interfering with the world; instead, we are operating the way the natural world operates—out of the Whole, out of Totality.

For the awakened the primary concern is simply to see what is taking place and to act in accord with it.

This is how the awakened differ from those of us who are caught up in delusion. It’s a very subtle, quiet, and gentle point, but its implications are total. Realizing this creates a complete transformation of heart and mind.

Enlightenment is nothing more than this: to be fully present, to see the grasping nature of our own minds, and not to act out of that grasping. It’s to see ourselves not as separate, not as
lacking, not as in charge, not as weak and helpless.

And Osho:

If you are meditating for something, then you are concentrating, not meditating. Then you are still in the world – your mind is still interested in cheap things, in trivia. Then you are worldly. Even if you are meditating to attain to God, you are worldly. Even if you are meditating to attain to nirvana, you are worldly – because meditation has no goal. Meditation is an insight that all goals are false. Meditation is an understanding that desires don’t lead anywhere.

I have found one new personal blog, full of awesome gardening tips, permaculture oriented:

http://www.permaculturinginportugal.net

Many different topics are discussed there and I like author’s well said, one sentence explanation of the present education problem:

Meanwhile putting 3 children through school in Britain forced me to reassess the whole subject of education. It was painful and frustrating watching their enthusiasm and curiosity fading under the pressure to cram uninspiring ‘facts’ (much of which, on closer examination, is only opinion) into their heads for the next test, while their health deteriorated and their social relationships became superficial and competitive, defined by what they owned and consumed rather than by who they are.

Energy future:

From vast discussions at theoildrum.com

Everything is based upon some form of our current BAU or BAU Lite or Green BAU. No one seems to be willing to come to grips with the probable reality that any form of BAU is dead meat.

Take the arguments for public transportation: The underlying assumption is that these millions of non-productive people will have jobs to go to. Sure, let’s spend billions of dollars for these systems. About the time they are completed I’m willing to bet that society finds it can no longer afford people who do not produce. And, by “produce” I mean exactly that – “stuff” whether it is new practical ideas or physical things.

Further, all of this leads to what shape education should take because it is trapped in the same BAU mind-set as energy. If it isn’t changed now, we are going to end up with another generation of useless people who have skill-sets that are no longer appropriate.

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If those of us who are not sanguine about the future and have prepared are wrong, we hurt no one. However, if those of you who believe the future is rosy are wrong, it is likely that you will destroy society trying to survive.

Few interesting informations around the agricultural topic.

But before them, let me show you one eye-opening fact:
In the place of 1 combain-harvester, you would need 120-300 people (using no oil powered machinery), fully engaged from the beginning of harvest season till Christmas.
The combain is probably the number one invention that caused a rapid human multiplication and massive shift from agricultural occupations.

John Michael Greer posted at his blog:

The productive potential of intensive gardening, especially under emergency conditions, should not be underestimated. A team of researchers at pioneering organic-gardening group Ecology Action found, on the basis of extensive tests, that it’s possible to feed one person year round on a spare but adequate vegetarian diet off less than 1000 square feet of intensively gardened soil. (The details are in David Duhon’s book, listed in the resource section.) In the more troubled parts of the future ahead of us, some of us may have to do just that; a great many more of us will need to be able to garden in order to pad out potential irregularities in a food supply that’s desperately vulnerable, over the short term, to fluctuations in the price and availability of fertilizer feedstocks and fossil fuels. The victory gardens of past wars are likely to be a useful template for the survival gardens of the deindustrial future.

I have read reaction to this theory from one very experienced farmer and he thinks, that the statement is right, but only if you are talking about the supplemental food production (vegetables, herbs). For the full scale food sustainability, read this:

Oldfarmecmac wrote:

… If it should become necessary,any reasonably accomplished gardener living in the more temperate parts of the US where the soil is decent and rainfall is adequate can produce most or all of the food necessary for herself and her immediate family,given enough land and sufficient time.The amount of land needed might be as little as one quarter to one half acre per person in the deep south where double cropping and even triple cropping may be practical,but such high yields are very much the exception rather than the rule,and can only be accomplished by very proficient farmers devoting very long hours to very small acreages.Chinese and Korean subsistence farmers in thier best farming areas are known to obtain even higher yields on a regular basis,but they are the 6 under par pros and work more or less continually at feeding themselves.You will need several times as much land in less favored areas.Our personal rough last ditch plan on our place here in the Blue Ridge mountians is two acres or so per person in field crops and fruit trees,which will provide us a little excess production for use as chicken feed and for sale,as well as a stored carry over safety cushion.
The more land you have, the more options you have in terms of varieties,crop rotations, fallow periods,cover crops, field manures,etc.More land also means that you can use less labor intensive techniques and get the same yields with fewer hours of labor.This will probably be a critical consideration for most people.In our case we will need to spend considerable amounts of time gathering firewood and other chores not directly related to food production. …

Oldfarmecmac:

…It is extremely unlikely that you can support yourself in Maine on a half acre.your twenty acres would probably be enough for a family of four or five if at least ten acres are reasonably level,cleared land with good soil.
You simply cannot believe how many things will go wrong until you are on the land and you need huge safety margins to protect yourself.

Question from Joe Waxman at Facebook was:

What will life be like in a year or two from now? Pretty much the same, or drastically different? What do you think?

Here’s my shot. Retelling the quite proliferated story of oil depletion, well spread by John Michael Greer (to name my favorite doom & gloom writer).

Less of unpolluted natural environment, hence less quality water and soil. Less oil = less of everything oil based, which is 90% of the present system. Economic growth of China, India, Brasil, Russia (more machine produced stuff), economic downfall of US, Europe (more human production again). More nuclear factories worldwide (because of energy depletion from cheap fossil fuels and no other option acceptable by the (lazy, spoiled) society – they can’t accept the only real option, to use less energy, because it’s going right against the present economic habit of continual growth, continual consumerism, continual hedonistic lifestyle, we are all in this interwined by being addicts of the present comfort). In US, Europe – more human produced food, with less use of oil based products, hence more natural. Back to local economy models. All of this is logically resulting from my basic presumtion, which is “less of cheap fossil fuels”. If not in two years, very soon anyway.

Bees are dying across the planet and there are many theories why this is happening – gmo, chemically polluted environment, bee viruses. I would add something here, maybe the number one reason. It’s easy to spot this problem, if you are little experienced naturally eating human being. The same logic that applies to us, applies to all living creatures. Eat healthily, live happily. Eat white-sugar, be in a danger of many modern diseases. White sugar is chemically processed stuff. It’s not a food. It’s not a complex foodstuff, it’s artificial. It’s delivering pure energy, very fast energy, but nothing more. Our body is not prepared for this rapid energy ride. Not at all, when taking daily. It’s similar to a cocaine and other drugs.

We take honey from the bees and we give them the white sugar ride instead. The modern beekeepers are greedy, profit and business oriented people. Even when they don’t think so and are talking how they help the bees – if they give them white sugar, heal them with latest bee-pharmaceutics, they are the cause, they don’t help. They take as much honey as possible. The bees will get no vitamins, minerals, enzymes so important for the healthy bee bodies, they get poisonous white sugar instead. How could they resist all the modern viruses? How could we, when eating too much white sugar? But this logic would be visible only to the beekeepers who have experienced the ill-effects of the white sugar directly on their own bodies. Very few of them do really understand the source. Many of them do fight the consequences, which is typical among human beings for centuries.

Since the time, in the last autumn, we switched from gas-furnace to wood-furnace, I get my nose to many important life-changing experiences.
I now know, how hard it is to produce enough heat for the whole house.
I have some idea how many trees have to fall for our daily temperature needs.
I realise that there is not enough trees for people to do the same step as we did.
I realise, that people will do this step anyway, when the price of oil will get higher and they won’t care about the forest limits.
I realise that this step will cause a deadly soil-erosion, that will bring you the collapse of a food production, which is much more important than the heat needs are.
I see how stupid is the modern house design, energetic procedures used in modern construction, that were developed based on the era of abundant cheap fossil fuels, but were forgotten to update in the time of upcoming opposite era.
I see why people in the history were building small houses, even when the building material was all around (clay, mud, straw, wood, rocks) and the spent time to build a bigger house wasn’t the main reason that stopped them from doing so – the reason was the question: “How long does it take to prepare enough wood to keep the house in a comfortable temperatures daily?”
They had no oil powered chain-saws!!
I tried to do it the old way, manually, with simple hand chain.
It was terribly hard work in comparison to the chainsaw.

I appreciate the value of trees now, the value of energy much more.
I learn daily how to burn the wood properly, to get as much energy as possible from it.
How to start the fire without modern chemical fire starters.
I have insulated all basic things in the house – little gaps around the windows, tubes running in a colder parts of the house.
And I dream about a smaller house, not only because I would like to have less work to do with preparing the wood, but because I would like to save the trees.
And also, before this life changing experience, I was thinking daily what kind of exercise should I do today. Weight lifting? Running? Walking? Yoga? And I was bored many times while doing it.
Now it’s very easy – should I take the chainsaw, or maul today, or stack the wood?
And the satisfaction is just perfect – I see a real work behind me, something I didn’t get from aforementioned sports.
In the near future I have to learn how to plant the trees properly, how to prevent them from animals eating them in the winter, without using the chemicals again.

We have 1975 house, 50 cm (20 inch) brick walls, no insulation, new windows (plastic), 220 m3 (7770 cubic feets) heated space and the firewood needs are 25 m3 (883 cubic feets or 6.9 cords) of stacked wood per year.
What are your yearly firewood needs?

Pictures bellow do show a small portion of our house needs. We need roughly 10-times more for the whole year than you see below:

Do you think the economy is a worthwhile knowledge?
Do you think the economists are studying hard to provide us with a really useful ideas, products?
Do you think they better understand how the society operates, evolves and should behave?
Quite the opposite.
They are brainwashed, deluded in the name of Money.
Their main goal (even if they don’t realised, that’s how brainwashed they are) is to promote the concept of the Money – this concept is their chief marketing product, they are trained sellers of this Money idea.

Money are worthless, they are an illusion, their value is based on trust, on our consensus.
They poses no inherent value, no real value.
What is the real value then?
For example – heat, shelter, clothing, food, tools for providing aforementioned things and also love, fun, friends.
Do you get it?

You can’t eat money, but they have a little value in the form of tiny heat they can supply you when you burn them while trying to get a little bit warmer, in the times of the Money illusion collapse, when the cheap oil, that supplies your heat requirements nowadays, will stop flowing. That’s why you should collect paper money only and in a small denominations, just to have them as much as possible for a longer fire. I am joking, but actually it was always better idea to have many different small denominations when the horrors of the inflation hit the country and the banks stopped working, you couldn’t get any money – when this time starts again (and it will, because the inflation is hard coded into this economic system, it’s a process how to balance old debts, when things are out of control), you need small money to buy the real thinks (like bread), until the money will still have any value (for the baker).

Because, what has value for the baker? Real wealth again – food, shelter, heat, clothing.
If there are no money, do we stop to use these real-valued things?
Not at all.
We start to exchange them for something else.
Something basic for the whole Universe.
Something all economists are taught nothing about, or apparently not in the way that should give them enough hints to realise they are brainwashed Earth-destroyers.
All economists should learn really hard the Laws of Thermodynamics as their basic knowledge.

Because, it’s all about Energy.
Energy should be the real currency of economics, not the money and because of this delusion, our daily steps are based on a devastating model, that could only stupid, undeveloped brains propagate.
Yes, I call the economists stupid.
And all of us, who don’t try to understand the reality better.
It should be our basic knowledge too.

Stupidity comes together (also) with wrong thinking, clouded, heavy, detail oriented thinking. Not able to connect all dots, to see things broader, interconnected. Stupid people have little will to understand the basic phenomenons, basic laws of Universe, like Energy flow.
Ohsawa would tell you what’s the cause and what’s the remedy of course.

My English and knowledge of this topic is not good at all, that’s why you should read this article, minutes that can’t be spend better for the upcoming times:
It’s the Area Under the Curve – Oil Prices and the Economy

Buying cheap, selling expensive. This is how many people in the modern world make their profits. They create no value, no real products, services.

They come winners in the short term. Pure survival in the world of capitalism. But in the real world of Nature, these people are losers. They are weak, unskilled, unproductive, not needed.

The dirty, hard working men is getting the biggest price – inner growth.

As Hans from KriyaYoga.com said nicely:

The times to come are teaching you to either work and contribute to all even dirty and hard work – or to fail and die.

For several decades much of this world started to outsource dirty, hard or boring work to “cheap labor” countries. All those outsourcing countries wanted to keep is the profits and easy life in luxury. Such lazy system never can work. Common sense would tell such to all world. Yet the temptation of earning easy money without sweating or getting tired was stronger and ego too weak in most people to apply common sense.

I am realising that I really would like to posses as minimum things as possible.

Articles from my favorite sources are supporting me with fresh reminders:

How much belongings do you need, why is there limit for your belongings – explanation to the rules for life

limit your belongings to what you can carry on your body

and what you need to do your work serving God

posses as much property of land as you can personally handle

own as much housing as you and your family can live in at one time

never loan money to others,

if you have more than you need for the next few days or weeks,

share it with those in need

share all your material belongings that you have in excess

of what you actually use and need these days and weeks with those in need

10 Essentials

If I have the 8 items above, I’m very happy: jeans & t-shirt, water & fruit, a book and a notebook, a walk in nature. You don’t need consumerism to be very happy — in fact, I’d argue that life is better without it.

I see that it’s not enough to stop consuming, buying new things, but that I also need to de-clutter, clean my environment – put the old stuff away.

Learn to reduce the amount of stuff carried on in life. Dump or give away or sell whatever has been useless to you for the past many months or maximum past one year. The more stuff you discard or abandon for others, the less burden you feel and the more you enjoy mobility and flexibility in life.

There are numerous examples of paring down — I whittle down my clothing collection, for example, on a regular basis. I will look at a room and remove unnecessary objects. I’ll clear out programs on my computer I don’t use.

There’s also deep meaning in following words – I never thought about it like this:

Leaving stuff behind, means you surrender your liability and responsibility to those who have to care on your behalf for your stuff. That may take their freedom to die when needed or to move on in their own life as needed to progress. You alone are liable and responsible for your own property and belongings! NO night guard, no body guard, no bank or parents or relatives ever have a true duty to care for your belongings while you are away.

It means to me, not to make problems, rubbish to others.. not leaving rubbish behind me – I can see, it really prohibits freedom of people that have to deal with this rubbish – we are really responsible for all our stuff we use or leave.

I can give you more inspired examples from my most admired persons – Ohsawa’s (macrobiotic founder) opinions on the life of Gandhi (he admired him very much), Ohsawa’s comments about Gandhi’s vows – it is written from the perspective of Herman Aihara (Ohsawa’s student) in his book Kaleidoscope.

The vow of non-stealing: Ohsawa used to say to us that it is stealing if we posses extra clothes, houses, or even foods more than we need; we stole them even if we think we paid their cost. For example, if we eat an apple every day we are stealing another’s apple because apples are not produced enough to supply the earth’s whole population. The same is true for animal foods. The rich pay a high price for meats and the poor can’t buy them. We do not consider this stealing, but in Gandhi’s sense this is so.

The vow of nonpossession: One of the macrobiotic principles Ohsawa taught was to live with only absolutely necessary things.

What then do I need 8hr money earning jobs for?
There’s so much fun with the free time I have and so much freedom without all the things around

For more inspiration, you can read my older article on the same topic:
Peace Pilgrim – Living the Simple Life

“You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.” ~ Brian Tracy

This is common saying – you cannot control what happens to you.

But, really?

What about Laws of Nature? Principles of Universe? Law of Karma?
Different names, but same meaning.

There’s hard coded logic, patterns, laws.
Opposites, contraction/expansion, moving in spirals.

What about sayings:
You reap what you sow.
An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.
The more you give, the more you get.

Aren’t these spiritual Laws of Nature?
Isn’t this definition of Karma?

How then it can be, that you cannot control what happens to you?

I am not saying you can 100%, but I cannot say the opposite too.

Proper eating controls my health – what happens to me.
Diet, exercise, education, meditation, loving attitude, humility, helping others, not harming – all religions are full of these – maybe because they know, that you can control what happens to you, by proper conduct of your Life?

“I don’t need to buy more, to work more in order to get more of products and services. In fact, I can be happy, content, joyful, creative without spending a single dime. All I need is the sun and the trees and the water and a good friend.”

Stop the pathological process of constant money spending on worthless shit – every modern product harms our earthly environment – we should not destroy our home (Earth) just because we are stupid buyer addicts.

Let the economy collapse from the less buying, producing, spending, creating – the economic system is not prepared on the LESS ideology, but who cares – the transition will be rough, but there’s no other way from insanity, only through the real hard detoxication – drop some of your addictions every day – you can start with foods easily – simplify, eat less salt, sugar, spices – spend less each day.

The critical question in all our life is: “What if all do as I do?” Then all 6+ Billions on our planet … What if all donate huge sums of money and no one donates his life, his useful professional expertise, his helpful skills, his strength, his hands and arms, his legs and body skills. Who then is doing the actual work that needs to be done?

What is the use of your God given healthy 2 hands, 2 arms, healthy strong legs, if you use all your healthy body only for paper shifting, writing invoices and legal papers, calculating formulas, calculating profit margins, filling bank forms, shifting papers, bits and bytes.

How to donate to humanitarian projects?

I am not sure why I am attracted to catastrophic scenarios, but I have to follow my intuition, my inner voice anyway – so be it, I really believe in the disastrous future of our civilization and I am so mad, that I believe it’s not so far, it will be fast and unexpected by majority – the never ending old model of collapse of the big civilizations will play its role again. We have a great opportunity in these days to learn a lot of things about the history, enough to educate us what the ancient civilizations did wrong, so we don’t need to repeat the same mistakes – but you know it better than me, we learn nothing, we go in the same steps of the destruction.

Yes, I have joined the “doom & gloom” group of weird people, that are so attacked by “The Secret” type of groups – but I still believe in optimistic thinking – but for me, the blind optimism is very dangerous – optimism together with rational thinking and proper action is my best choice. I believe in the constrained resources – fossil fuels, water and most important of all – quality soil.

I have written this little summarization of my core beliefs only for the reason to explain my apocalyptic interests at this blog.

Here’s very interesting article describing the 1990 famine in the North Korea, after the fall of the Soviet Union, that was the main food provider for the Korea.

After poor harvests in the mid-1990s, the North Korean government was forced to reduce the food ration that its people relied on. This amounted to 700-900 calories per person per day supplied by the government. This was supplemented by what could be grown in home gardens or purchased elsewhere.

There was a natural progression that saw disease attack the most vulnerable, which were the children under five. Next were the aged; those over 70 followed by the 60-year olds and the 50-somethings. Death then stalked the people in the prime of life. Men, because they had less body fat, went next. The strong and athletic were especially vulnerable because their metabolisms burned more calories.

We need 500 calories per day, on average, to survive. Eating only food foraged in a temperate forest; you could expect to live no more than three months.

I wonder what could happen if we would be taught to believe the popular esoteric model that we are not our body, but we are Oneness, Everything. I mean, really taught from the birth. Do we need deep meditations, profound esoteric training to realise that we are all connected? Or can it be done simply by switching the ongoing consensus about the reality, about our belief in the connection to the single body? What if you were taught that you are All, your body is just the point of reference to this Everything world. But you are responsible for everything that happens around. There would be no logic in fighting against anyone – you would logically behave peacefully to everyone/everything around, because all is you. There’s no reason to steal, to cause pain, to cheat someone, to make money on someone, to not help someone – all is you. It’s hard to imagine this logic now, because we are preconditioned already, but it’s more possible with everyday training. I am not sure if the meditation is the only process for achieving great results in this matter, or if it’s also possible with pure logic, switching of the thoughts about this Reality. Buddha was saying, that whatever we do, whatever we feel, we shouldn’t take it, that we are the Doer – I understand it as one of the ways how to unconnect from the body-limited-view. There are many other examples in the esoteric texts – they are quite well known. I am simply pondering if the change in consciousness is happening only through the meditation sitting or if the way could be enhanced by the everyday act of changing our thoughts, of the belief system that we are all sharing, the paradigm shift – this shift has nothing to do with meditation, right? It’s done at the logical level of the thinking process.

Anyway, I am not sure what’s the end of the meditation activity at all – but if it would be realisation of the Oneness (or if this is one part of it) – I am beginning to believe, that it could be very much achieved by this rational act of paradigm shift – just start to think about Everything as You, you are responsible for all.

But in the end – maybe the point in meditation is, that you really realise this Truth internally, while logical realization at the level of brain is only a small part of this.

How can we find ourselves in the culture of capitalism?
We are determined by the idea of ever rising GDP.
We are tied by the artificial value of money.
To grow GDP every year, it’s totally necessary to consume, to throw out things for the reason that you can buy new – without consumerism, the present economic system couldn’t continue/prosper.
And we are totally determined by this present economic structure.
We agree to study deliberately, to become professional, to get a good job, to earn money, to spend money and to fulfil the dream of the stupid logic of the few idiotic leaders.
We are sheep, domesticated to create other sheep, to accept the present logic of the humanity, to accept the growing GDP logic, to accept the illusionary value of the paper money, to be stressed by the rules of the capitalism, to accept the masquerade of the political game.
Only when you have enough time, to study, to read, to question everything, you can start to see behind this curtain.
But it’s still very hard, because you are not learnt to question thinks – the educational system is in the favor of remembering facts, instead of critical thinking. When you do tests from the remembering of the hard facts, it’s also easier for the teachers to give you a grade, but it’s very hard for them, to grade you based on your critical thinking. So, just learn the historical facts, biological, economical… and repeat them – ok, a little bit freedom is given you to think, but this freedom is nothing compared to the totality of this Universe – we are still confined in the barriers of the dogmatic belief systems around us – the brain is able only to repeat the old.
It’s a very devil trap put upon us right from the beginning – that’s why I say, we are poor sheep – but I don’t blame us – who can blame the poor people that hadn’t time, or God given interest to ponder about things.
It’s like a Matrix and very few are lucky to see through it.
But when you start, when you get more glimpses, you can’t retrace – it’s impossible and you will struggle… you can get mad, or you can get braver, healthier, but only after a long inner/outer fight with the System – but return path is closed in the moment, you realise the basic logic, the core Truth that determines you – the Nature laws.
In the present families, they are making wars against each other for totally stupid matters – about proper education of their children (which is really devil education from the perspective of Nature, but your life becomes much harder without it in the present System), about brand of car, television, whatever… giving energy to maintain their phony social status, copying whatever is the present modern way of behaving – this all eats a lot of energy and logically, you have no energy left to question it all – you are lost in the Sheep land.

There are core things much more important than a good job, than a University education, than a proper marriage….
These things are hidden in a very simple things, so much simple, that our rational mind can’t accept them – again, because we were trained up so.
The simple things are found on the way of Heart – in the intuition, in the feelings, emotions – without questioning them with the mind if they are good or bad, if I can feel them or not, because it’s appropriate by the measure of present Sheep’s behaviour.
We need to trust in Ourselves, our feelings, emotions – but it’s very hard, it’s risky, we fear to stay immersed in them for a longer time – everything from the System gives you message that you are Unique, you are Different and causing you to fear, to return to the average behaviour.

Ahh.. what a Trap put upon us.. from our nearest to us – from parents, grandparents – we are poor repeaters – but you must still find hope in all of this, even when the logic says there’s no – as I said, the logic is very constricted, thinking in the barriers of the known only – the Heart sees much father and the Consciousness is the total Truth.

Who am I talking to anyway?

We are part of the reality that is happening out there, part of the whole.
Our disconnection is illusory – I am not sure if it’s because of the dicstinctions made by the eye-sense, that see strict borderline between our body and environment, or if the disconnection started much earlier in the brain decoding mechanism, or somewhere else.
Anyway, we have believed (in the end, the brain is behind any belief) we are disconnected from the Whole.
Let’s imagine again that we are not separated, that we are interconnected with everything and it was never different – let’s back it up with your favorite theory explaining this interconnection, for example the particle theory about each atom having vast space around and when you zoom close enough, you can’t see any borders between your body and your environment – makes quite sense, right?
Now, you are really connected with Everything – you are not your body avatar only – the Avatar is there only as your lens, as the point of reference from which you observe the Oneness.
How do you get informations from the World?
Senses. Is there anything else then them (I think there’s not, but make me correct in the comments)?
Senses are all there is for you, to get the knowledge about the world.
Does it make logic to listen these senses and to obey them, follow them, because they are some higher logic, higher messages from the Whole reality?
Can you make better decisions made by thinking, by brain, by logic?
What is more restrained – decisions based on senses or decisions based on pure logical thinking of the brain?
Can your brain think up anything different than it already knows from the past?
Isn’t the brain only repeating the past models of thinking, past theories, old stories, old worries?
What about senses? Can they lie? Can they manipulate you?
If you feel joy, is there any false in it?
Is there any reason you shouldn’t be really happy when you feel so? Even when everyone else is not so – maybe at the funeral?
Is there any logic in not following your feelings, your inspirations?
Why should you start using your logic to judge if the inspiration is good, if it’s worth of pursuing, if it will bring you enough of this or that, if it’s childish, if it’s embarrassing etc.?
Can you imagine living totally spontaneously – following your inspirations, feelings, senses – following your intuition – the path of Heart?
It takes some time, to re-learn listening to the senses, to switch from brain consciousness to the heart consciousness – it’s a regular learning process – to de-learn the old habit of “using too much logic”.
But finally, you’ll start to become very spontaneous, not restrained by the pure rational thinking repeating the old patterns – each situation is brand new, totally new variables are presented at each moment, and brain cannot understand it at all – only senses can tell you immediately what is happening around and giving you hints how to behave, how to deal with each situation in every moment.
Does it make sense?

It does to me.. but I am aware I am suggesting here extreme switching from the brain to the heart – I am aware about the advantages of the middle paths – no extremes are good. But I am still not sure what to think about this extreme. I think, that this is what Osho and other total-consciousness teachers do propagate – at least this is how I understand their tips for total-spontaneity. But this lifestyle would be really scary, when bravely applied – you would stop planning, stop thinking about consequences, about problems, barriers – you would just do what you feel at each moment, without fear.
Can it be so easy? Or am I compensating my long term tendency to use too much of the brain logic in my life, by clinging to the opposite extreme?
I am not sure, but I am experimenting with it now – living by the inspiration, intuition of each moment.
As many times in my life – I was hugely inspired by Steve Pavlina with this test.

And sorry for all the typos – I don’t feel like I want to repair them – anyway, I write it for myself at the first place (ok, maybe even for the 2 loyal readers).

There are many relative truths these days.
But many of them seems to be relative, because things are very complex – and their real logic is hard to find.
We are lost in believing many things that dig grave to our own children – and we even pursue them with great zest, as many others around do.
It’s hard to see the simple logic, but it’s hard only because we are not learnt so – because we are overwhelmed with thousands of unuseful informations.
Unuseful from the context of sustainability – of the ecosystem, which is our living environment and us.
Sustainability of our human health.
Sustainability is the key word to everything we do.
But the meaning is lost in times of the cheap abundant energy.
Many stupid undoable things are happening every hour, which we can understand in a minute, after we imagine world without cheap fossil fuels – many things are clear and we know what is needed to do, we are becoming effective in each moment – and at the end of the hard day, we are somehow internally happy, satisfied with ourself – something we are striving so hard to find in present society.

Tír na nÓg was considered a place beyond the edges of the map, located on an island far to the west. It could be reached by either an arduous voyage or an invitation from one of its fairy residents. The isle was visited by various Irish heroes and monks in the echtrae (Adventure) and immram (Voyage) tales popular during the Middle Ages. This otherworld was a place where sickness and death do not exist. It was a place of eternal youth and beauty. Here, music, strength, life, and all pleasurable pursuits came together in a single place. Here happiness lasted forever; no one wanted for food or drink. It was the Irish equivalent of the Greek Elysium, or the Valhalla of the Norse.