One needs great harmony between the mind, the heart and the body, if you can so divide it – psychosomatically, if you prefer. There must be complete harmony, because if there is any contradiction, any division, there is conflict. Conflict is the very essence of waste of energy, and you need tremendous energy to meditate. Therefore, harmony is necessary so that the mind, the brain, the organism and the depth of the heart are whole, not broken up. You can see that for yourself; nobody need teach you that. How to bring about that harmony is quite a different matter. Complete harmony means the mind as well as the organism must be extraordinarily sensitive. Therefore, one has to go into the question of diet, exercise and living properly. Because we do not want to think about it or look into it, we turn to somebody else to tell us what to do. And if we look to somebody else, we limit our energy, because then we ask whether it is possible or not possible. If we say it is impossible, our energy becomes very limited; if we say it is possible in terms of what we already know, it becom
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One needs great harmony between the mind, the heart and the body, if you can so divide it – psychosomatically, if you prefer. There must be complete harmony, because if there is any contradiction, any division, there is conflict. Conflict is the very essence of waste of energy, and you need tremendous energy to meditate. Therefore, harmony is necessary so that the mind, the brain, the organism and the depth of the heart are whole, not broken up. You can see that for yourself; nobody need teach you that. How to bring about that harmony is quite a different matter. Complete harmony means the mind as well as the organism must be extraordinarily sensitive. Therefore, one has to go into the question of diet, exercise and living properly. Because we do not want to think about it or look into it, we turn to somebody else to tell us what to do. And if we look to somebody else, we limit our energy, because then we ask whether it is possible or not possible. If we say it is impossible, our energy becomes very limited; if we say it is possible in terms of what we already know, it becomes very small. So one realises the necessity of this complete harmony, because if there is any kind of discord, there is distortion.
The word ‘yoga’ means 'to join together’. The very words ‘join together’ are wrong; they imply duality. Yoga, as a particular series of exercises and breathing, was probably invented in India many thousands of years ago. Its intent is to keep the glands, the nerves and the whole system functioning healthily, without medicine, and highly sensitive. The body needs to be sensitive, otherwise you cannot have a clear brain. You can see the simple fact that one needs to have a very healthy, sensitive, alert body and a brain that functions very clearly, non-emotionally, not personally; such a brain can be absolutely quiet.
Yoga has now become a business affair like everything else. There are teachers of yoga all over the world, and they are coining money, as usual. Yet yoga, at one time, was only taught to the very, very few. Yoga does not mean merely to keep your body healthy, normal, active and intelligent; yoga also means, in Sanskrit, ‘join together’ – joining the higher and the lower. That is the tradition. There are various forms of yoga, of which the highest is called raja yoga – the king of yogas. That way of living was concerned not merely with physical wellbeing but also, and much more, with the psyche. There was no discipline, no system, nothing to be repeated day after day. It was to have a brain that was in order, that was all the time active, but not chattering: active. It was to have a very deeply ordered moral, ethical and disciplined life, not based on the taking of vows. Thereby, although the body was kept healthy, it was not of primary importance. What was of primary importance was to have a brain, a mind, a state of well-being that was clear and active; no
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Yoga has now become a business affair like everything else. There are teachers of yoga all over the world, and they are coining money, as usual. Yet yoga, at one time, was only taught to the very, very few. Yoga does not mean merely to keep your body healthy, normal, active and intelligent; yoga also means, in Sanskrit, ‘join together’ – joining the higher and the lower. That is the tradition. There are various forms of yoga, of which the highest is called raja yoga – the king of yogas. That way of living was concerned not merely with physical wellbeing but also, and much more, with the psyche. There was no discipline, no system, nothing to be repeated day after day. It was to have a brain that was in order, that was all the time active, but not chattering: active. It was to have a very deeply ordered moral, ethical and disciplined life, not based on the taking of vows. Thereby, although the body was kept healthy, it was not of primary importance. What was of primary importance was to have a brain, a mind, a state of well-being that was clear and active; not active in the sense of physical movement, but a brain in itself active, alive, full of vitality. But now yoga has become rather shallow, a source of profit, mediocre.
I really can't stop looking at this photo - We usually think of space as being entirely empty and dark, but our Sun has a lot of dust around it that we can rarely see. This so called Zodiacal light is giving the moon this eerie backlit glow.
And four people really have been there and witnessed this yesterday, absolutely blows my mind!
I was ready to go to bed late last night, but continued to listen to the audio descriptions from the astronauts which were incredibly captivating. In my mind I was painting a picture of this scene, and the images certainly didn't disappoint.
This is a HDR merge combining the long exposure art002e009573 with the shorter art002e009571. I also fixed the motion blurred stars with deconvolution and applied some noise reduction and slight color adjustmens.
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It's kind of nice to a whole 'nother generation being enthralled by a Lunar mission. I was a young adult when the Apollo 11 mission landed on the Moon. The whole population seemed to be glued to their radio sets listening to those astronauts' progress all the way. The Apollo 13 mission, when the capsule experienced an explosion was even more intense. I think everyone on the planet was united in prayer (or positive vibes, for the non-religious) for those guys as they fought for their lives to get back to Earth.
I missed that intentionally, but I now see that I really missed the opportunity to LMAO online. Though this of course is a much better take that anything I'd have to offer.
Those lovely spacesailors proved once again what has been obvious from the first day: they are exceptional people, in all aspects.
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Does the body, the physical organism, have its own intelligence? It has when all the senses are acting together in harmony so that there is no straining, no emotional or sensory demands of desire. When one is hungry, one eats – but usually taste, formed by habit, dictates what one eats. So fragmentation takes place. A healthy body can be brought about only through the harmony of all the senses, which is the intelligence of the body itself. What we are asking is: doesn’t disharmony bring about waste of energy? Can the organism’s own intelligence, which has been suppressed or destroyed by thought, be awakened?
A je to tady! Snímky z obletu Měsíce! Tady si můžeme užít východ Země nad odvrácenou stranou Měsíce. Za povšimnutí stojí ty pásy malých impaktních kráterů, které se po tváři Měsíce táhnou. Jedná se o cákance materiálu vyvrženého při větší srážce.
these amazing folx are not only the furthest humans from earth ever to date, they are also as far away from Trump as is currently possible with existing technology. Jealous on both counts.
Be wise and definite about your health; don’t let emotion and sentiment interfere with your health or belittle your action. There are too many influences and pressures that constantly shape the mind and heart; be aware of them, cut through them, and don’t be a slave to them. To be a slave is to be mediocre. Be awake, aflame.
at some point, after I get this roof replaced, I'd like to install solar panels and start trying to be a part of the solution, rather than the problem.
Can't afford to replace my roof + getting solar panels on it right now. But I'm planning to get at least plugin panels on the south side of my house to reduce my part of the problem. #PluginSolar
Meditation is the innocency of the present, and therefore it is always alone. The mind that is completely alone, untouched by thought, ceases to accumulate. So the emptying of the mind is always in the present. For the mind that is alone, the future, which is of the past, ceases. Meditation is a movement, not a conclusion, not an end to be achieved.
It is good to be alone. To be far away from the world and yet walk its streets is to be alone. To be alone walking up the path beside the rushing, noisy mountain stream full of spring water and melting snows is to be aware of that solitary tree, alone in its beauty. The loneliness of a man in the street is the pain of life; he is never alone, far away, untouched and vulnerable. To be full of knowledge breeds endless misery. The demand for expression, with its frustrations and pains, is that man who walks the streets; he is never alone. Sorrow is the movement of that loneliness.
Find out if you are dependent. And then find out why you depend and see what the implications of that dependence are: fear, loneliness, lack of comfort. If you don’t depend on people, then you are not frightened, are you? Then you don’t mind standing alone. You are standing alone not out of fear; the moment you are alone, you are much more honest, much more sure, nobody can corrupt you, there is no question of being hurt. So, find out if you are dependent on people. And not only on people – on drink, tobacco, chatter, talking endlessly about nothing.
Simeon Schmauß
in reply to Simeon Schmauß • • •I was ready to go to bed late last night, but continued to listen to the audio descriptions from the astronauts which were incredibly captivating. In my mind I was painting a picture of this scene, and the images certainly didn't disappoint.
This is a HDR merge combining the long exposure art002e009573 with the shorter art002e009571. I also fixed the motion blurred stars with deconvolution and applied some noise reduction and slight color adjustmens.
Simeon Schmauß
in reply to Simeon Schmauß • • •youtube.com/live/z-j1uxBmis0?s…
NASA’s Artemis II Crew Flies Around the Moon (Official Broadcast)
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in reply to Simeon Schmauß • • •I was a young adult when the Apollo 11 mission landed on the Moon. The whole population seemed to be glued to their radio sets listening to those astronauts' progress all the way.
The Apollo 13 mission, when the capsule experienced an explosion was even more intense. I think everyone on the planet was united in prayer (or positive vibes, for the non-religious) for those guys as they fought for their lives to get back to Earth.