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 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.

This is outrageous free online downloadable book about the Great Work of Enlightenment. I have read many and this one speaks to me more intimately – it portraits the consciousness & meditation territory in a language my Soul is vibrating on. It’s really not a usual meditation book, it talks very differently about many well-known esoteric topics and that’s why I like it. The more time I have invested into the practice and reading of Enlightenment Game, the more I am sure, that the general conclusion is widely lost.
I like how Daniel Ingram describes it interestingly in his 400 pages book. And the practice techniques are awesome!

You can download the book for free at his website – Interactive Buddha.

Or you can buy print copy at Amazon:

Here are few reviews from Amazone, that tell you more:

I can say with extreme confidence that if you read this book, put its principles and techniques into practice and have a clear aim at making progress in your meditation practice, you will be amazed at how quickly you can make real and lasting progress. This book excels at the specifics regarding insight meditation practice (with enlightenment as its goal) and the states and stages related to concentration practice (with unusual and profound states of consciousness as its goal). It also excels at deconstructing the various confused models and misperceptions that spiritual practitioners often have regarding enlightenment.

So, if you’re interested in down-to-earth, practical dharma, and want a clear guide on how to master the core teachings of the Buddha this is the book for you. If you’re looking for coffee table dharma or feel good, new-age fluff, then I would suggest something a little less hardcore.

Of the countless reasons that you should read this book, I offer the following three:

1.) Many books about meditation leave out important information about the sequential stages one will likely (dare I say “inevitably”) encounter in their practice. The ups and downs in one’s practice can be severe, which causes many people to get stuck, and maybe leave the practice all together. Daniel breaks down what one may experience on their journey, and gives very practical advice on how to navigate the territory.

2.) This book clears up a lot of confusion around the goals of meditation practice, particularly what it means to be enlightened (or “awakened”, etc.). By supplying an extensive list of the various models of enlightenment that are used by various contemplative traditions, one may comparatively examine them and get a good idea of what is true and what is false in regards to the process and goal of awakening.

3.) Daniel is brutally honest. He is fully aware that calling himself an Arahat is likely ruffle many feathers. But, it is my impression that he wouldn’t make the claim if he didn’t believe with his entire being that it is beneficial to others to do so. By explicitly detailing his particular attainments and how he was able to gain mastery of very specific techniques, he provides hope to those who also believe that it can be done.

I can say with complete honesty that after reading and applying the basic practices in this book, my meditation practice deepend beyond what I knew was even possible (and still is). I can’t even begin to express how grateful I am to have read it, and how hopeful I am that it will continue to benefit others.

If you want to learn meditation with the goal of attaining earth shattering insight in to the nature of your identity and the universal characteristics of the whole of reality, than this book is for you.

“The next time you are sad don’t fight with it. Don’t waste time in fighting; accept it – let it be a welcome guest! Look deep into it, with love, care. Be a real host! And you will be surprised beyond your comprehension: sadness has a few beauties which happiness can never have.
Sadness also has a being. Allow it, embrace it, sit with it, hold hands with it. Be friendly. Be in love with it. Sadness is beautiful! Nothing is wrong with it. Sadness has depth – happiness is always shallow. Sadness has tears, and tears go deeper than any laughter can ever go. Sadness has a silence of its own, a melody, which happiness can never have. Happiness will have its own song, more noisy, not so silent.
I am not saying choose sadness: I am just saying enjoy it too. And when you are happy, enjoy happiness.” Osho

Change the quality of the video before playing, click the 360p text on the video and choose 480p.

A 3D animated view of meditation on how we can perceive to address our “little” problems into tranquil soundings.

I am creating and testing a new theory in my life, in the past days/weeks.
The theory about psychic eliminations.

The point is – there’s no reason to differentiate psychic eliminations from bodily ones.
Let me explain.

When you understand the logic about the physical eliminations, about illnesses, you know they are not a bad things.
Actually, all eliminations and illnesses are great and you should let them happen, not to suppress them.
Even, you should boost them up with some kind of natural remedy.
You suffer for a while, having a fever, head-ache, skin problems, but you know the only way how to treat it, is to go to the cause, not only suppressing the symptoms.
This logic is well known to the macrobiotic world and other “natural methods” practitioners.

I think we should go one step farther with this logic.
And start to realize how our mental/emotional body is using the very same principles.
But the elimination processes are not of the physical dimension of course.
They are the types of fear, stress, anxiety, nervousness, phobia, feeling of lack, envy, hate, self-doubt etc.

When all bodily eliminations are gone, the natural state of our physical body is a good physical health.
And the same logic applies to the emotional/mental health.
The natural state of our mental body manifests as easiness, love, courage, compassion, open-mindedness, curiousity, abundance, adaptability, creativeness, adventurousness, less thinking about oneself, more thinking about Oneness.
These qualities are not something we have to strive for, to fight for, to invest a lot of personal energy to achieve.
They are our natural state of being.

This is very important to understand.
From this logic, come up simple conclusions:

Apply the same elimination thinking to your mental processes.
Let them flow, let them be, don’t suppress them, don’t judge them, don’t try to get around them, acknowledge them.
And to eliminate quickly, even try to celebrate them, love them.
Nurture them – in a sense of paying full attention for a while to them, observe them, but remember – without judging – they are as they are.
As you see, it’s a very similar level of thinking as I have described about the physical eliminations.
See the similarity on a energetic level and it will make perfect sense to you.

The problem of society is obvious – we are suppressing our unwanted emotions, clinging to one side of the coin and creating a lot of havoc in our mental sphere.
It’s all unnecessary, if we understand this simple elimination logic.

But, there are always tricky parts, otherwise all people would be healthy and using these natural methods.

One of the traps is this:
The mental body is much more flexible than the physical one.
It reacts much quicker, all happens very fast in the comparison to the physical world.
What’s the conclusion of this?
Again, very simple.
You are a being influenced by different energetic inputs and they can manifest at your mental sphere very fast.
You can get away of fear for a half day, to experience it again at the other half.
You can have mental eliminations each morning, each day and it may seem like there’s no progress.

And on top of that – the healthier you are, the faster the mental reactions/eliminations do happen.
The same applies to the physical body – here’s an example:
The better your physical health, the faster you get eliminations when you (for example) eat something from the extreme part of energies (white sugar, lot of fats, milk – using the macrobiotic logic here).
Yes, it is a paradox, but illnesses/eliminations are a good sign of your healthy physical body.
The body is eliminating excesses, to maintain perfect health – and an effective, healthy body does it in a fast way.

The same things happen to your mental body, but it happens much faster.
The eliminations come much faster, which can be seen as a bad thing, but they can be released also much faster, if we let them go.
You can eat something of the extreme foods, and you can in a matter of minutes start to have weird mental thoughts – food energy manifestation is really happening fastest in the mental/psychical world – the more attention you pay to it, the more obvious it becomes to you.
Now, you can start to obsess with your weird thoughts, not understanding them, feeling bad for them, suppressing them, like many people do, even the macrobiotic people and not seeing any connection to the food you have eaten.
But it all testifies how unknowledgeable we are – what a misunderstandment.

Start to treat your mental eliminations with this theory and all becomes much easier.
Believe, that when you let them happen, let them eliminate, your mental body will start to clean from a years of debris.
It can start to become quite hard, because all the suppressed emotions are stored there.
But don’t run away from them.

Learn how to meditate, because in meditation you take this mental healing to perfection.
There’s no better way for mental cleaning, than meditations.
Sit, meditate, observe your emotions, don’t judge.
See the meditation process a perfect cleaning exercise – don’t expect anything, don’t think about nirvana or other complicated subjects or state of beings/consciousness, that should be achieved by it.
Just simply sit and do the meditation regularly to clean your mental body.
And it will happen!

The problem is, many people are thinking the meditations and spiritual practices in general should lead to happy, loving, joyous mental states.
And when the fears, anxiety starts to emerge in their life, after they start these spiritual practices, they are afraid, they didn’t expect them, it’s something completely else they wanted, hence they stop to practice and evaluate this spiritual practice as wrong.
They still search for the perfect spiritual path, that will give them the happiness and of course – if you search, you will find.
They will find their “all is perfect” practice.
But what’s the price?
Very big if you ask me – the price of total blindness, artificial reality, matrix dream world.
They succumb to their distorted view of reality, they need to suppress a lot of things in their psyche, they have to invest a lot of energy daily to hold their distorted world and they are becoming slaves of their own Mind world.
It’s all becoming on this subtle energetic level, and it can be understood very easily when you read and listen the right people carefully.

For me, it was a big trap of my spiritual searching. I have fallen to this “all is perfect” dream, I suppressed, I shun from my negative emotions.
But this period was needed to realize how wrong I am.
Maybe there’s no other way to understand things than to make all the mistakes for yourself.
You can read and hear from thousands people, but you never learn, other than from your own experience.
I am 99% sure that this ‘learning only through your own experience’ process is true.

But still, there’s a very important logic in listening and reading all the advices of other people.
Because you can become aware of them, you notice them, get acquainted about how things could work, what are the possibilities.
And when you fall in all the traps, you can bring out the right solution from your magical hat of knowledge.
Maybe it’s still possible to see the solution even without reading anything, without listening anyone – maybe.
But many people are better with having these backup knowledge at their hand – you don’t need to think up the plow if others already done it.

So, if you have fallen already in the trap, or if it waits for you still – it doesn’t matter, take notice of my simple logic here and use it now or later in your life.

Actually, the more I work with this simple thinking, the more evident it is to me and the less I understand how it could happen, that something this basic is not described in a more friendly and logical way.
Of course, it can be the problem of me, that I haven’t read/listened to the right people.
I am not sure if I have created another complicated description of this topic, but I feel like my explanation brings something new, some new insight, especially for the macrobiotic people and for the people seeing logic in the “all is energy” world.
As usually, it brings a new insight to me at least – the writer gets the biggest results, not the reader

One last thing – this logic is a perfect example of how we are still not seeing similarities in everything around us.
We are treating physical and mental world like completely different realities, with different set of rules, laws.
Maybe, from the west-science point of view, it could be true, that different rules apply for them.
But this is the perfect time to appreciate the logic of yin/yang.
Yin/yang will educate you and give you a perfect system for working with the whole reality – no matter if physical or mental, energy or matter.
They are all the same – once you understand the Principle of something, you can very creatively apply the same logic in a very different part of the Universe.

So, to sum it up: mental eliminations are using the same logic as the physical ones.
Let all the eliminations flow out of you freely.

Love you!

This discussion was started by Phiya’s Facebook message. I would like to reprint it here, for other people to benefit.

Phiya >> Macrobiotics must necessarily address addictions, be they from more serious substances such as drugs and alcohol, or from foods such as sugar, ice cream, chocolate, fried foods, junk foods, baked foods and processed foods. It isn’t enough to stop the addiction itself but to also address the addictive patterns of thinking and behaving as well…

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Me >> Macrobiotic should provide more theories about all energies beside the food. Macrobiotic is very good in setting the exact food pattern, standard plate – people like precise rules. I think, there should be similar precise pattern for the rest of the life energies/activities. People are not aware of this.. that they should balance all their …

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John >> Interesting point, Frantisek, although wouldn’t there be a danger that so much precision and control over everything would kind of squash out all the freedom and joy of living? Just a thought…

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Me >> John: I think there are two sides as usually. Some people would become too rigid (yang) because of this, some people would be helped to become less unresponsible (yin). For me, I try to look at mental body the same as physical. I think the exactly same question can be put over the food plate. Doesn’t it cause too much control? From what I see and people I know, there are many rational/logical thinkers in the macrobiotic movement. I think, one of the reasons for this is – the precision with which the macrobiotic sets all the food rules (the whole logical taoism yin/yang logic). I can imagine the same style of rules for the spiritual/mental/emotional life. They don’t need to be perfectly precise.. the importance would be put on the overall harmony/balance logic. There would be suggested ‘plate’ models with the basic theory around – that everyone is different, unique and has to find his way. I am just suggesting more discussion about the spiritual/mental part in the macrobiotic. I know top M leaders are aware of this very well and they try to address this issue. For example in the latest edition of Cancer Prevention Diet – there’s whole new part about Emotions related to Cancer development.

I am getting inspired by Integral Life Practices last days – I like how they try to make balance from different world practices – http://www.kenwilber.com/personal/ILP/MyILP.html

I am just speaking from my daily macrobiotic practice, from my life experiences with M and from many M people I know around. I see where they make mistakes, where I have made mistakes.. and this issue is one of them – on of the biggest mistakes I made – I just simply didn’t balance all my parts of life, I have concentrated too much on food

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John >> Excellent insights, Frantisek…I am often in conversation with students and friends here in Scandinavia who repeatedly bring up the issue: “if MB food is meant to be local, how come it all comes from Japan?”

I have very well thought-out and articulated answers to such questions, of course, but what if one applied the same criteria to “spiritual food?”

Many of the arguments that one can make about solid food do not make sense when applied to spiritual food.

I have personally derived ENORMOUS benefit from Far Eastern spiritual practices, but I find it much easier to explain to a Finn why he should eat miso soup every day than why he should chant the Diamond Sutra every day…

Perhaps we should continue this very interesting conversation somewhere other than Phiya’s FB wall: he probably wants to put the cat out and get some sleep : )

BTW, how can you possibly have such excellent English?

best wishes,

John.

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Me >> I think we can continue chatting here, Phiya can just ignore and others can see it and join, if they want.

Excellent English? Thank you, but I don’t think so. The same question could be send to you also, right? Or at Finn, it’s usual to talk English there? For me, I am self-employed from 99, I make money from net, I get info from english websites, so I consider myself as very poor learner.. for so many years of reading in English, I am not good at all But writing, talking and reading is very different, you know. For writing, the best practice become from my blog writing http://www.macrobiotic.name

About the local macrobiotic issue. I was dealing with the same question myself and from people around, asking me why so many Asia groceries. I have found general macrobiotic answers for this – the logic of the same climatic zone and also the logic of “the more water food has, the closer to you it has to be”. It served me well. But finally, I am questioning the same thing again. Looking from different perspective and now the perspective could be described as “simplicity” and “self-sustainability”. From this point of view, I am for localizing macrobiotic to each country/environment. I am asking myself, what if there will be world crisis, what if I want to live deep in the nature. I am sure, I can live from the local production, without miso, kuzu, umeboshi, seaweeds. I think they can be exchanged with other fermented foods or that I can learn how to prepare them similarly. In the end, the fermented foods were in each country’s history, we just have to rediscover and also learn about wild plants/weeds. They are my seaweed replacement
Maybe the little problem is with rice. I like rice very much. But I am going to learn about no-water rice cultivations (if I say it right, they just don’t need so much water and warm/wet weather).

For the spiritual practices. I think we are in the quest of rediscovering our old roots too. At least I am. Pagan, druid religions were the basis of nearly all religions (if you look closely and open your mind). Sacral geometry is hidden everywhere. It’s all about energies, the spiritual practices differ just like the different exercises for the body. But I have no problem with doing aikido in the Czech, or meditating vipassana style, because I see it all as having exact energy on me (more yin, more yang). Meditations and exercise are in christianity, just under different names

John, so you are Finn macrobiotic lecturer?

Thanks for the conversation, awesome topic

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Patrick >> i enjoyed this exchange, it is clever;just suggesting that everyone that is interested in this kind of mind excercise could go and simply rediscover the diet of their peaceful ancestors, some times very difficult to do find (peaceful)
michio’s work is tremendous!!
we all could turn into what i call lattitude”izing” MB,and trust me there is lots of work to be done in it’s longitude”izing” as well; to be continued if you so desire??? love peace, namaste

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Me >> Patrick: I am not sure what you are talking about. I surely desire for continuation
And I agree, Michio’s work is colossal!!

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Patrick >> frantisek, in simple terms i’m talking about about the true regionalisation of MB latitude and longitude wise, michio only touched base with that! and also i have to remember that this way of life is base on the motto of ” one peaceful world”
therefore my question about following the diet of peaceful ancestors ( pre traveling foods) is i think a crucial one

i have in storage in mass a tremendous book of about 500 pages written by a polish man ( don’t remember his name now) about fermented food complete history and geography

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Me >> Patrick: thanks for the explanation, somehow your English is a little hard for me (I don’t consider it as your problem).
You remembered me about the “Ferment & Human Nutrition” excelent book from the Bill Mollison (father of Permaculture movement), maybe this is the one you mean, but he is not polish I think

Check the reviews.. really great book!

For a better entertainment: I suggest you click the play button at the above video and start reading, the music of the video is important

Don’t underestimate the simplicity of life!

People make things unbearably complicated.
In the ‘making things complicated’ they already manifest their mental illness, their deviation from the Natural principle – which is Simplicity.

We are born Strong, we are born Love, we are born Responsible to our real Self! All child are being born with these characteristics.

We just regrettably pay the price of Freedom.
Because freedom does mean, you are free to choose to be slave and to make slaves from others.
Yes, this is the real price of the real freedom. If you would be born in Greece, in Athens or Sparta, long time ago, they would keep you strong, responsible and brave for the whole lifetime. You would have no other choice, hence no freedom.

Realize your freedom, realize you choose to be weak, to be ill, to follow other’s commands instead of your own. To follow the material possessions instead of finding enormous joy in the non-attachment. All was done upon you, but you have all accepted, nobody hold a shotgun on your head, forcing you to accept all the rules of the dementic society.

Now, when you realize this, the next step is to return to the Source. Realize the intrinsic simplicity of the whole Universe.

If you are born strong, you can become strong again. The steps are very simple and this is the problem for many people. They can’t belief something so simple can be true. We have been learned to belief in complicated theories – left brain thinking.
Delete this self-destroying program from your mind, hack inside and erase it completely and start observing the simple laws of Nature everywhere.

Ok, enough of my philosophical (yin) introduction, now you’ll get the practical (yang) part – the Rules of the Battlefield.

Do all these things daily/weekly. Get them in harmony, balance them wisely. Which means – don’t stop doing any of the rules and also don’t start doing any rule too fanatically, too much. The exact balancing is upon you, upon your experiences, observations. We are all different. Find your way by constant practice.

That’s it, that’s all. Very probably I will update and change this list in the future. But the point is, to inspire you to start looking at life from the simple logic. To start being responsible for all that’s happening to you – to the deepest of your emotions and feelings. Your weakness, your fears, your depressions, melancholy, anxiety, aggressiveness – they are all very logical result of the life you live now. You have to experience them, because you live how you live, you do what you do. But by changing your daily habits, you change these core emotions and all your beliefs also!

This is a big Truth, that is available for you to discover daily. Try to be balanced in all the daily activities and you will get happy mind and life. Because the balance is another name for happiness and health.

Yes, dears, we’re going to talk about meditation, the ultimate act of rebellion against society, “the system” and all of those other illusory things.

Meditation is not just social action: meditation is revolution. To become free – by any means necessary!

You know the word meditation. You have read about many different meditation styles and practices. If you are like me and if you like reading this blog, there’s a big probability you are, then I bet you are a little lost in all those styles. You are not sure which one is the best. How is it possible there’s so many of them and they are even contradictory. If you walk the walk, if you practice and not only read about them, you must be constantly puzzled if you are going the right way, if you are doing it right and not wasting the time.

Even if you don’t know what the meditation is about, if it’s cloudy territory for you. And if you would like to discover the hidden rooms of your mind, then I am going to give you a perfect link to find it out.

The linked article suited me very well. There’s no one explanation for everyone, but maybe it will provide you with the next big piece into your life puzzle, like it did to me.

One of the important points is – the meditation for the mind could be seen upon as the physical exercise for the body. There are so many styles of physical activity (Tai-chi, Yoga, Five Tibetan, Do-in etc.) and there are also many styles of meditation – the goal is, to try them, have your own experience and to find your own style that delivers the best mind hacking results.

But the most important point of all this endeavor is – PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE!
Stop reading about it and DO IT.
The results are a leap behind your imagination – don’t try to think about them, just believe and start!

This is a big text, but the meditation part starts right at the top and ends where the Tantra section starts (it will take you about 1 hour to read it, so enjoy) – DETONATING THE MIND BOMB.

Last days I am listening to music whenever I go to the city, between people.
I am playing healing frequencies music in my mp3 player. I was doing this many times before, at high school. Many of my years were lived with the walkman always on. But I wasn’t practicing consciousness before. Later, when I started to meditate, I put away the walkman completely, I was thinking that I need to hear the real sounds, not anything artificial.

But now, I enjoy this ‘artificial’ music when I am around the people again. I don’t consider it as ‘run away’ from reality anymore. It’s great fun and it helps me to be much more aware of what is happening around. I am more easily consciouss without the environment sound distractions. I am using the music as crunches, for better consciousness. I am more easily tuned to the people faces, bodily expressions, observing myself, my reactions, looking people in the eyes, seeing how they escape from the straight eye-look, how they are nervous, funny, lost completely in their minds, trapped. This helps me to realize how trapped I am many times. The mp3 player is great fun for me now. Try shopping with headphones in your ears and observe people, you can dance internaly and enjoy them.. they are crazy, we are crazy and nearly no-one is aware of it

My favorites are:

You can convert any YouTube video into MP3 at this ‘Video to mp3′ website. Choose the High quality option.

Yet another amusing connection between science and spirituality has been made for me. I realize more each day, how I am based on logic. I accept things much more easily, if my brain can explain them logicaly in some way, connect them with the old thoughts/patterns I have already in my mind. Then I am able to shift my belief system very rapidly. I like this kind of thinking, make sense and is logical, hehe. Everything is vibration, think in terms of vibrations and you will see behind the veils:

The human nervous system is precisely tuned to the electromagnetic field in which we exist. Lightning strikes set up a charge between the positive ionosphere surrounding the Earth and the ground; the resultant wave is moving at 7.8 cycles per second.

We now know that the human brain emits the alpha brainwave when we enter a state of deep relaxation, and this pulsates at exactly the same frequency, 7.8 cycles per second. This is why meditation is so beneficial, because it is only when we are relaxed and still that we enter the alpha state bringing us into neurological harmony with the Earth’s resonant field. In the alpha state we are in an area of knowing just below our everyday conscious awareness. It is like fine tuning our personal radio receiver to cut through the static, so we can clearly hear the message of our inner voice.

From the Harmony again.

Zen 24/7: All Zen, All the Time – Philip T. Sudo
If you’re searching for revelation and contentment, look no further than a handshake, a cup of coffee — even your laundry pile. The most mundane details of life contain zen’s profound truths, if you’re of the mind to look for them.

By awakening to and embracing the zen in your life, you’ll listen, watch, eat, work, laugh, sleep, and breathe your way to truth — every moment of every day.

Philip Toshio Sudo has found Zen in the unlikeliest of places and has written about them: Zen Guitar, Zen Sex, and Zen Computer. Now, in Zen 24/7, it’s Zen everything. But if it’s true that being mindful in every moment is the heart of Zen, then everything is Zen. Taking just this approach, Sudo walks readers through a full day, from alarm clock to bedtime, stopping to ruminate on how the most mundane things, from a beer to a meeting to the dry cleaners, can remind us of bits of Zen wisdom. A Zen flag reminds us that it is the mind that moves; Zen fuzzy dice remind us to flow with traffic; a Zen mall reminds us to reduce desires; Zen sleep reminds us that every day’s a good day. As in the best Zen writing, Sudo’s observations are breezy but packed with genuine insight. There is a bit of sly humor and lots of encouragement, as if each page were a daily affirmation. This is a book to read through once, then pick up often for reminders, especially the page on Zen shopping, which you’ll want to post on your refrigerator.

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You should understand this very clearly – whatever action you perform in your life, there is a consequence to it. There is no such thing as you must perform only this type of action and you must not perform another type of action. You can do anything. But you must be in a state to accept the consequences joyously.

After performing the action, cribbing or crying when you have to face the consequences will not do. Do whatever you want in your life, but tomorrow, when you have to face the consequences, you should not cry and complain. If you can accept this joyously, you can do anything. If you don’t have the energy to accept the consequence, you don’t have to perform that action! It is not needed. Just because somebody else is doing something, you don’t have to attempt it or do it. You do not know the kind of energy they have. Isn’t it?

So, the society has not become competitive; but it is you who are caught in the rat race. You can compete to the extent you want to. But if you don’t have the need for competition, then you may be ready for meditation. we will set you on the path of meditation – not because you are useless for anything else, only because the need to compete, the need to be in the rat race has dropped.

http://www.ishafoundation.org/news/columns/khabar/The%20Rat%20Race.pdf

And my favorite post, written by me at 4th January 2008. After rereading it today I can only say – where are the times?

I am trying a lot of concentration methods in the last days.
I am now seing a lot of power if you can concentrate very good.
Because you can eliminate lazyness completely from your life by the good use of will.
If you are master of your mind you are not distracted by your thoughts.
If you control your thoughts you control your emotions.
Yes, your emotions are simply product of your thoughts.
Many people are pulled by their mind to many directions.
They can’t drive the car (body, mind).
They are simply followers.
But it’s not good for the practical way of life.
You will not achieve big things with this mind setup.
Only after you learn how to concentrate on the topic you are doing, you will achieve enormous results.
Actually, you will achiveve anything and everything you will be only brave to dream about.

Think a little..
You have many ideas, dreams, ideals of your life.
Why can’t you achieve them?
Are you trying hard enough?
In my case it was because very big lazyness.
I couldn’t kick myself to start doing, I was only fantasizing.
But after learning how to concentrate I started to eliminate side thoughts.
The thoughts that are not helping me to achieve my desired things.
Everything is energy.. it takes no more energy to decide to finish the thing than to procrastinate.
It’s jusy a simple decision.
But you have to control these decistions at first.
You have to control the direction of your thoughts.
It can be all done with learning concetration techniques.

Spiritual explanation of macrobiotic lifestyle.
Where does it all heads, if we eat proper food.
Vibrational levels of the Universe, which we have passed and we will go through after leaving our present Human body.
What can you expect after Death (very precise description).
Ghosts (astral souls) around us, how to communicate with them, how to help them and how they can help us.
Explanation of the Law of Karma – it’s not any kind of punishment, but simply a balance of the yin and yang.
How to eat better to understand the Law of the Universe on the base of intuition – without everyday eating of the brown rice, one can’t understand/comprehend the Essence/Principle, all other grains will keep us healthy and happy, but who wants to develope Spiritual path, have to eat brown rice daily.
How to clean up your Spirituality – mantra AUM, meditations, moderate eating, chewing.
How to watch Aura – unsharpen vision (similar to the Celestyne Prophecy book).
Chakras and meridians and our connection with the Universe.
Death is the same as the birth (only it has opposite character from the yin/yang view) – we are born to the next world (astral) – if we are attached to anything in this world, we are creating unconsciously another illusionary world (Maya) after the death and we are spinning in the Circle of reborns – attachment and confusion is created by low quality foods.
Human being can come to understandment (inner conscious comprehension) all the levels of the being/existence and understand the uppermost Principle/Essence – but it’s not possible if we are not vibrating at the right frequencies (the highest quality food).
The power of Purpose/Intension/Will and the Dream is manifested at all energetic levels – in the material world (that we are now) is the Intention (thought, dream) manifested as doing/action (by our physical body) – at the Astral world (the next after we die) is thought immediately manifested in the form of Picture/Image – important is, everything exist in the form of vibration, that’s why we can communicate with death people (souls/ghosts) and they with us (by the power of thought in the Astral world).
The meaning of Life and much more you can read at: