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Healing "Yourself" Part 4
So you want to heal yourself? After all, you're reading on a Buddhist blog, so it's not "hopeless" for you yet.
When a survey asks people around the country what they think is the most important quality in other people, the answer "honesty" comes first. But all around us people lie until "the rind cracks", why should we then be "honest" with ourselves?
I for my part also mean again and again that I am not "too fat". In front of the mirror I automatically take a "favorable" position, catch myself again and again as I pull in the belly, so the little fibs begin with the own self, to the lie it is then not too far. Who really wants to achieve something must be "honest", otherwise the matter does not have the smallest chance of success.
Everyone wants to live more and more consciously, to be mindful in dealing with oneself and others. This starts with simple honesty, not as we would like it to be, no, it is as it is, no matter with which rose-colored glasses we want to see it.
If you continue to read here, then it is really time for self-therapy, then it is your turn now, change yourself, show with your further appearance that you have seen the truth, wear the dress of change with joy, pride and indifference. Then everything will also change for the better, because according to Buddha there is no "better" or "worse", only the NOW and the here.
Many things will come up in self-healing, many repressed things will pave their way up, Buddhists are realists, not dreamers, because life is at most the dream of a dream. If something seems painful to you, even that is just a figment of your imagination, nevertheless an energetic demeanor just makes you feel attractive, my body feels attracted to positive "vibes". We are just real people and not "reality stars", we cannot be chosen HERE and NOW, or maybe we can?
With every DECISION we should decide anew, do not rely on preconceived judgments (prejudices), never everything is as it seems, do not hang your head. Show fighting spirit, but don't make yourselves any more fools, but become healthy among the many diseases. What a beautiful goal, and the way is the goal!
Alms and medicines
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
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So you want to heal yourself? After all, you're reading on a Buddhist blog, so it's not "hopeless" for you yet.
When a survey asks people around the country what they think is the most important quality in other people, the answer "honesty" comes first. But all around us people lie until "the rind cracks", why should we then be "honest" with ourselves?
I for my part also mean again and again that I am not "too fat". In front of the mirror I automatically take a "favorable" position, catch myself again and again as I pull in the belly, so the little fibs begin with the own self, to the lie it is then not too far. Who really wants to achieve something must be "honest", otherwise the matter does not have the smallest chance of success.
Everyone wants to live more and more consciously, to be mindful in dealing with oneself and others. This starts with simple honesty, not as we would like it to be, no, it is as it is, no matter with which rose-colored glasses we want to see it.
If you continue to read here, then it is really time for self-therapy, then it is your turn now, change yourself, show with your further appearance that you have seen the truth, wear the dress of change with joy, pride and indifference. Then everything will also change for the better, because according to Buddha there is no "better" or "worse", only the NOW and the here.
Many things will come up in self-healing, many repressed things will pave their way up, Buddhists are realists, not dreamers, because life is at most the dream of a dream. If something seems painful to you, even that is just a figment of your imagination, nevertheless an energetic demeanor just makes you feel attractive, my body feels attracted to positive "vibes". We are just real people and not "reality stars", we cannot be chosen HERE and NOW, or maybe we can?
With every DECISION we should decide anew, do not rely on preconceived judgments (prejudices), never everything is as it seems, do not hang your head. Show fighting spirit, but don't make yourselves any more fools, but become healthy among the many diseases. What a beautiful goal, and the way is the goal!
Alms and medicines
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
Copyright: https://shaolin-rainer.de
(Please also download my app "Buddha-Blog English" from the Apple and Android stores)
6 Minuten
Healing "Yourself" Part 3
Are you ready to heal yourself? Do you want to face your fears, your addictions, the paranoia, the fear, all the insanity? Or continue to live as you have been, without giving realization any chance? It's up to you, you are the architect of your happiness, it's a simple decision, depending on whether you want to be happy or not.
So, have you read up on the main methods of self-healing? Researched on the Internet, bought books, attended lectures? Or are you still taking it "easy"? Are you not really convinced yet?
You can do it, I promise you. Better than any other person could help you, you can help yourself best, if only because you spend all day with yourself. Another person would very rarely spend that much time on you, no doctor can make the effort, but you can. If you want to.
Should you be looking for methods of self-healing, then you must only look at those systems that are also "good" for you, that have a certain attraction for you. Trust in Buddha, who said (according to the meaning) that exactly what is "on" will come to you.
So the appropriate help will also appear in front of you, namely when you have made the decision that you really need help. By the way, your body can make such decisions much better than your mind, believe me. It has a natural gift to pick out what is "up" for you. Ratio only complicates many things.
So, are you ready?
First look at yourself in the mirror. What do you see? Describe yourself, speak to your reflection, say clearly and honestly what you see. Take your time, think of this as an exercise that you will do for ten minutes a day for a week. Don't forget about speaking to your own self. What feelings, moods and reactions does this action awaken in you, what do you sense and feel?
It is usually rather difficult to be "honest" with yourself. While you are standing in front of yourself like this, what things come up in you? What is pushing out of you? Where does your body want to go?
Get into the habit of looking at yourself. Without doing your hair, putting on make-up or brushing your teeth, but just looking at yourself in the mirror.
Can you honestly express what you see, what you think about, what feelings arise, how you feel?
Tomorrow you can read more about my topic "self-healing" here.
The way is the goal!
The sage uses medicines for protection from sorrowful feelings and for good health
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
Copyright: https://shaolin-rainer.de
(Please also download my app "Buddha-Blog English" from the Apple and Android stores)
Are you ready to heal yourself? Do you want to face your fears, your addictions, the paranoia, the fear, all the insanity? Or continue to live as you have been, without giving realization any chance? It's up to you, you are the architect of your happiness, it's a simple decision, depending on whether you want to be happy or not.
So, have you read up on the main methods of self-healing? Researched on the Internet, bought books, attended lectures? Or are you still taking it "easy"? Are you not really convinced yet?
You can do it, I promise you. Better than any other person could help you, you can help yourself best, if only because you spend all day with yourself. Another person would very rarely spend that much time on you, no doctor can make the effort, but you can. If you want to.
Should you be looking for methods of self-healing, then you must only look at those systems that are also "good" for you, that have a certain attraction for you. Trust in Buddha, who said (according to the meaning) that exactly what is "on" will come to you.
So the appropriate help will also appear in front of you, namely when you have made the decision that you really need help. By the way, your body can make such decisions much better than your mind, believe me. It has a natural gift to pick out what is "up" for you. Ratio only complicates many things.
So, are you ready?
First look at yourself in the mirror. What do you see? Describe yourself, speak to your reflection, say clearly and honestly what you see. Take your time, think of this as an exercise that you will do for ten minutes a day for a week. Don't forget about speaking to your own self. What feelings, moods and reactions does this action awaken in you, what do you sense and feel?
It is usually rather difficult to be "honest" with yourself. While you are standing in front of yourself like this, what things come up in you? What is pushing out of you? Where does your body want to go?
Get into the habit of looking at yourself. Without doing your hair, putting on make-up or brushing your teeth, but just looking at yourself in the mirror.
Can you honestly express what you see, what you think about, what feelings arise, how you feel?
Tomorrow you can read more about my topic "self-healing" here.
The way is the goal!
The sage uses medicines for protection from sorrowful feelings and for good health
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
Copyright: https://shaolin-rainer.de
(Please also download my app "Buddha-Blog English" from the Apple and Android stores)
6 Minuten
Healing "Yourself" Part 2
As I said, self-healing is a process that is naturally given to our body and mind, but must be actively guided (at least in the case of mental ailments). Which, by the way, coincides one hundred percent with Buddhist teachings, Buddha explained again and again that the diseases of the mind come from the ego, from overbred fears, worries and senseless self-torture, when again the thoughts (uncontrolled) begin to take on a life of their own.
But does such an approach (self-healing) make sense to you at all? Do you have the willpower, the ability to suffer and the appropriate character? To stay with the words of Buddha, it will come that way if it is meant to come that way!
As a first intermediate goal you have to make a plan, without a plan nothing works. This plan should be comprehensive, similar to a construction plan for a house or a hotel, encompassing all the important cornerstones. Unlike such a house plan, your self-coaching plan can be changed again and again, every day, every hour. In order to work out such a workflow you need the ability to analyze your life relentlessly, i.e. also to look at the sufferings of the moment.
You cannot run away from fate, you have to look at the here and now as it is, not as you wish it to be. You are old and sick, then it is so. You are not very smart, then you have to live with it. You are overweight, you don't have to live with that. You are addicted (alcohol, drugs, sex, power or money), you can change that.
What do you suffer from?
According to the teacher of all teachers (Buddha), we create our own suffering, we control everything with our ego, which has just been shaped by karma. So when we decide to stop suffering, it is "the first part of the plan to Nirvana", which you can call self-therapy. Do you want to change? Then just do it!
The method for a healing of your self is the teaching of Buddhism, which hooks straight at the disturbances of the mental activities. You have to face up to them, a normal doctor can only help in an accompanying way (better ask yourself about risks and side effects), because no doctor in the world has enough time for you (the average time a patient spends at a doctor's office in Germany is about 5 minutes). Nevertheless, you have to inform yourself, form an opinion before you start. Especially on the net there are countless guides to self-healing, pick the material that makes sense for you.
Read here in the next days further to the topic "self-healing".
The way is just thereby the goal!
Only then the wounds would heal
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
Copyright: https://shaolin-rainer.de
(Please also download my app "Buddha-Blog English" from the Apple and Android stores)
As I said, self-healing is a process that is naturally given to our body and mind, but must be actively guided (at least in the case of mental ailments). Which, by the way, coincides one hundred percent with Buddhist teachings, Buddha explained again and again that the diseases of the mind come from the ego, from overbred fears, worries and senseless self-torture, when again the thoughts (uncontrolled) begin to take on a life of their own.
But does such an approach (self-healing) make sense to you at all? Do you have the willpower, the ability to suffer and the appropriate character? To stay with the words of Buddha, it will come that way if it is meant to come that way!
As a first intermediate goal you have to make a plan, without a plan nothing works. This plan should be comprehensive, similar to a construction plan for a house or a hotel, encompassing all the important cornerstones. Unlike such a house plan, your self-coaching plan can be changed again and again, every day, every hour. In order to work out such a workflow you need the ability to analyze your life relentlessly, i.e. also to look at the sufferings of the moment.
You cannot run away from fate, you have to look at the here and now as it is, not as you wish it to be. You are old and sick, then it is so. You are not very smart, then you have to live with it. You are overweight, you don't have to live with that. You are addicted (alcohol, drugs, sex, power or money), you can change that.
What do you suffer from?
According to the teacher of all teachers (Buddha), we create our own suffering, we control everything with our ego, which has just been shaped by karma. So when we decide to stop suffering, it is "the first part of the plan to Nirvana", which you can call self-therapy. Do you want to change? Then just do it!
The method for a healing of your self is the teaching of Buddhism, which hooks straight at the disturbances of the mental activities. You have to face up to them, a normal doctor can only help in an accompanying way (better ask yourself about risks and side effects), because no doctor in the world has enough time for you (the average time a patient spends at a doctor's office in Germany is about 5 minutes). Nevertheless, you have to inform yourself, form an opinion before you start. Especially on the net there are countless guides to self-healing, pick the material that makes sense for you.
Read here in the next days further to the topic "self-healing".
The way is just thereby the goal!
Only then the wounds would heal
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
Copyright: https://shaolin-rainer.de
(Please also download my app "Buddha-Blog English" from the Apple and Android stores)
6 Minuten
Heal yourself
We humans are becoming more and more whimsical, have more and more quirks, suffer from depression, delusions, fears. Mental ailments of all kinds fill the waiting rooms of specialized doctors, the god in white (demigod at least), he will fix it.
We don't always act to our advantage, we approach things too rationally, think back and forth, then lose ourselves in thoughts that don't come to a point, and can't really come to a point. Instead of listening to our body, the same considerations always circle in our head, as a result we are then dissatisfied, not "happy".
This can go on for your entire lifetime (no, it doesn't get better with age), or you can take responsibility for your own self, you finally take care of your self, simply by starting to "heal yourself", starting self-therapy. Because no matter how good your doctor is, no matter if you are a health insurance or private patient, a doctor cannot take the necessary time for you, only you can do that.
Do you want to initiate a process that will help you solve your problems, or do you continue to "let things slide"? Are you ready to work on yourself without outside help (doctor, therapist), so that you can finally achieve your goals and lead a more pleasant life?
Have you ever heard of "self-healing powers"? Every person can heal himself, the body and also the mind. If you cut your finger, then the cut heals in a short time, is no longer visible. So is your psyche, if problems arise here, then you can heal yourself, if you want to. The mind (unlike the body) requires an actively supported healing process that begins with the will to heal.
Because through the will we then find the strength to look at our existence (and the role we play) relentlessly honestly, which is always the prerequisite for healing, must be.
Every person suffers from his or her own personal horrors, has his or her own special demons, is afraid of other things, no two people are alike. That is why there is no standard application for recovery that applies to all people, but runs just individually.
In general, it should be said that healing oneself "by oneself" will usually be a long process, which may take a lot of time, cost a lot of energy.
Self-therapy is always connected with effort and work, coincides in many respects with the things Buddha taught his disciples.
In the next few days you will read more about self-therapy here.
The way is the goal!
The one who is ill could not achieve what one can achieve when he is free from illness.
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
Copyright: https://shaolin-rainer.de
(Please also download my app "Buddha-Blog English" from the Apple and Android stores)
We humans are becoming more and more whimsical, have more and more quirks, suffer from depression, delusions, fears. Mental ailments of all kinds fill the waiting rooms of specialized doctors, the god in white (demigod at least), he will fix it.
We don't always act to our advantage, we approach things too rationally, think back and forth, then lose ourselves in thoughts that don't come to a point, and can't really come to a point. Instead of listening to our body, the same considerations always circle in our head, as a result we are then dissatisfied, not "happy".
This can go on for your entire lifetime (no, it doesn't get better with age), or you can take responsibility for your own self, you finally take care of your self, simply by starting to "heal yourself", starting self-therapy. Because no matter how good your doctor is, no matter if you are a health insurance or private patient, a doctor cannot take the necessary time for you, only you can do that.
Do you want to initiate a process that will help you solve your problems, or do you continue to "let things slide"? Are you ready to work on yourself without outside help (doctor, therapist), so that you can finally achieve your goals and lead a more pleasant life?
Have you ever heard of "self-healing powers"? Every person can heal himself, the body and also the mind. If you cut your finger, then the cut heals in a short time, is no longer visible. So is your psyche, if problems arise here, then you can heal yourself, if you want to. The mind (unlike the body) requires an actively supported healing process that begins with the will to heal.
Because through the will we then find the strength to look at our existence (and the role we play) relentlessly honestly, which is always the prerequisite for healing, must be.
Every person suffers from his or her own personal horrors, has his or her own special demons, is afraid of other things, no two people are alike. That is why there is no standard application for recovery that applies to all people, but runs just individually.
In general, it should be said that healing oneself "by oneself" will usually be a long process, which may take a lot of time, cost a lot of energy.
Self-therapy is always connected with effort and work, coincides in many respects with the things Buddha taught his disciples.
In the next few days you will read more about self-therapy here.
The way is the goal!
The one who is ill could not achieve what one can achieve when he is free from illness.
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
Copyright: https://shaolin-rainer.de
(Please also download my app "Buddha-Blog English" from the Apple and Android stores)
6 Minuten
Enlightenment and eclipse
Enlightenment and eclipse are absolute opposites!
The valley of tears, the swamp of darkness, hell vents of creative self-destruction, here we are, in the midst of our own walls that we build ourselves, waiting for the "enlightenment", dissatisfied in our lives eyeing everything suspiciously, doubting and hating, behaving quite differently than how Buddha exemplified life to people.
Sick among sick, disturbed among disturbed, afraid of the fears, hallelujah, the negative pulls down, the bottom has not yet been reached.
Among us are countless types, who must first come up at the bottom, before they want to (or can) orient themselves upward, whom the darkness literally attracts, who do not seek the light. Perhaps it is also quite simply that "one" must know the eclipse in order to appreciate the enlightenment at all.
For my part, I also had to really fall on my face to get my head "straightened out", it seems to be a human phenomenon to look on the dark side. With animals little to nothing of such, mental perversions is to be noticed, the problem goes quite obviously along with the developed thought palace, in which the ego can spread, which sits then like a devil on our shoulders, whispers nonsense to us, wants to talk us useless trinkets on, produces worthless emotions. This is exactly the ego Buddha warned us about, but who listens; put up the statues of the great teacher, yes, but what did the man say again, no plan, how to go on, nobody has a plan.
No one gets enough, everyone comes up "short", what are the contents and values, no plan. Higher, faster, further, richer, more, more, more. But the emptiness in people remains, the desired feelings are transient like the wind, after the game is before the game.
Relaxation and balance are just empty words, everyone is caught up in their stress, the path of Buddha can (could) help here, but who is listening? What were the three key phrases from the teacher of all teachers again, who knows?
Life is a journey, we are all time travelers, through the universe our planet is lurching, we are smaller than a grain of sand but have dreams far too big.
If you think about the word "eclipse" now, what appears in your mind's eye? What trip are you "going" on? And most importantly, why? In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king, darkly I see outlines, see the wretchedness of us humans.
The way is the goal!
The universal ruler throws forces to the front, he fastens the jewel at the top of his
top of his banner, in the darkness and gloom of the night
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
Copyright: https://shaolin-rainer.de
(Please also download my app "Buddha-Blog English" from the Apple and Android stores)
Enlightenment and eclipse are absolute opposites!
The valley of tears, the swamp of darkness, hell vents of creative self-destruction, here we are, in the midst of our own walls that we build ourselves, waiting for the "enlightenment", dissatisfied in our lives eyeing everything suspiciously, doubting and hating, behaving quite differently than how Buddha exemplified life to people.
Sick among sick, disturbed among disturbed, afraid of the fears, hallelujah, the negative pulls down, the bottom has not yet been reached.
Among us are countless types, who must first come up at the bottom, before they want to (or can) orient themselves upward, whom the darkness literally attracts, who do not seek the light. Perhaps it is also quite simply that "one" must know the eclipse in order to appreciate the enlightenment at all.
For my part, I also had to really fall on my face to get my head "straightened out", it seems to be a human phenomenon to look on the dark side. With animals little to nothing of such, mental perversions is to be noticed, the problem goes quite obviously along with the developed thought palace, in which the ego can spread, which sits then like a devil on our shoulders, whispers nonsense to us, wants to talk us useless trinkets on, produces worthless emotions. This is exactly the ego Buddha warned us about, but who listens; put up the statues of the great teacher, yes, but what did the man say again, no plan, how to go on, nobody has a plan.
No one gets enough, everyone comes up "short", what are the contents and values, no plan. Higher, faster, further, richer, more, more, more. But the emptiness in people remains, the desired feelings are transient like the wind, after the game is before the game.
Relaxation and balance are just empty words, everyone is caught up in their stress, the path of Buddha can (could) help here, but who is listening? What were the three key phrases from the teacher of all teachers again, who knows?
Life is a journey, we are all time travelers, through the universe our planet is lurching, we are smaller than a grain of sand but have dreams far too big.
If you think about the word "eclipse" now, what appears in your mind's eye? What trip are you "going" on? And most importantly, why? In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king, darkly I see outlines, see the wretchedness of us humans.
The way is the goal!
The universal ruler throws forces to the front, he fastens the jewel at the top of his
top of his banner, in the darkness and gloom of the night
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
Copyright: https://shaolin-rainer.de
(Please also download my app "Buddha-Blog English" from the Apple and Android stores)
6 Minuten
We build our own cages part 2
There are many different kinds of cages, but they all have in common that they are made by humans for humans, but mostly we put our own person into such kennels.
I will give you some examples:
The cage of greed for food, when we compensate our true personality with "eating".
The prison of greed for alcohol, because we want to escape from the true here and now.
The prison of drugs, because the ego can't stand our own self.
Not to forget the dungeon of lusts, because the short thrill brings a distraction.
The gate of gambling addiction, to find at least a break from transience.
The lonely hovel of money that feigns a sense of importance.
The illusion of power to distract from one's poverty.
I think that now you understand what I mean! All these cages are self-made, only for the own person.
But sometimes also for other people, because one wants to achieve something with the construction of the cage, instead of just "letting go". A always during game, over the millennia people played themselves up, wanted to establish "power", and become only builders of monstrous horrors, perhaps "well" thought, but just "badly" made.
Then there are the cages, which we maintain out of wrongly understood consideration, which we do to ourselves (and our environment), because we are too cowardly to see the truth, to speak out, to act according to it.
Instead, we prefer to remain in an unhappy relationship, afraid of being alone, of the neighbors' opinion, of financial disadvantages, of whatever "one" may be afraid of.
Or maybe we build cages around ourselves because we think we are "not good enough" for something, we think we "don't deserve" something, or we think we are not "suitable". Therefore we think we "can't" do this and that, "don't" have a chance, there are as many cages as there are people, and more.
Which cage is holding you? And why? Do you know an answer? And if not, why? Why could it come to this? Is there a way out?
YES
The philosophy of the great teacher offers the only possible explanation how the things, living beings and incidents are (could be) connected, because every consideration about the true effect of the light is just subjective, because an objective does not exist. One observer likes roses, the woman next to him finds flowers terrible.
The way, you know, that is the goal!
The seeker looks at his guilt and feels imprisonment.
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
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(Please also download my app "Buddha-Blog English" from the Apple and Android stores)
There are many different kinds of cages, but they all have in common that they are made by humans for humans, but mostly we put our own person into such kennels.
I will give you some examples:
The cage of greed for food, when we compensate our true personality with "eating".
The prison of greed for alcohol, because we want to escape from the true here and now.
The prison of drugs, because the ego can't stand our own self.
Not to forget the dungeon of lusts, because the short thrill brings a distraction.
The gate of gambling addiction, to find at least a break from transience.
The lonely hovel of money that feigns a sense of importance.
The illusion of power to distract from one's poverty.
I think that now you understand what I mean! All these cages are self-made, only for the own person.
But sometimes also for other people, because one wants to achieve something with the construction of the cage, instead of just "letting go". A always during game, over the millennia people played themselves up, wanted to establish "power", and become only builders of monstrous horrors, perhaps "well" thought, but just "badly" made.
Then there are the cages, which we maintain out of wrongly understood consideration, which we do to ourselves (and our environment), because we are too cowardly to see the truth, to speak out, to act according to it.
Instead, we prefer to remain in an unhappy relationship, afraid of being alone, of the neighbors' opinion, of financial disadvantages, of whatever "one" may be afraid of.
Or maybe we build cages around ourselves because we think we are "not good enough" for something, we think we "don't deserve" something, or we think we are not "suitable". Therefore we think we "can't" do this and that, "don't" have a chance, there are as many cages as there are people, and more.
Which cage is holding you? And why? Do you know an answer? And if not, why? Why could it come to this? Is there a way out?
YES
The philosophy of the great teacher offers the only possible explanation how the things, living beings and incidents are (could be) connected, because every consideration about the true effect of the light is just subjective, because an objective does not exist. One observer likes roses, the woman next to him finds flowers terrible.
The way, you know, that is the goal!
The seeker looks at his guilt and feels imprisonment.
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
Copyright: https://shaolin-rainer.de
(Please also download my app "Buddha-Blog English" from the Apple and Android stores)
6 Minuten
Make yourself free
What we lack for "enlightenment" is a liberated thinking. The old patterns, which keep us from our perfection, fears, worries, hardships, even real fear pervades us again and again, the uncertainties of life are solidified in our thought palace, must first be smashed according to the teacher of all teachers. Whoever can banish these poisons from his thinking, unimagined joys await him, the infinite freedom that awakening offers us.
Finally become "master" of your ego, of your thoughts, of your life. Because it doesn't matter if you go through life laughing or crying, the world will continue to turn regardless, not taking note of your situation. If at all, your change of mind will be noticed by your closest environment, but not even that is certain. Only for you there will be a change, because from the awakening of your consciousness there will be a superiority against all possible strokes of fate (and believe me, they will come). But if you are ready to take responsibility for your incarnation and your karma, you must (also) inevitably deal with the teachings of the Indian prince, because otherwise life is just a sequence of events that leave no impression.
Have faith in your ego and in your existence, this world does not have to be only torment and fear, no. Thoughts are our being, according to Buddha we shape our world with them. So, do you want to use the power of positive thinking?
At least as long as you, as a "feel-good Buddhist", have not yet set out on the path to awakening, as long as you still think in the learned categories that you cannot (yet) leave? It is only up to you whether you consider the rainy day as "depressing" or as "cozy", otherwise nothing changes.
Nothing we can change, but our way of looking at things, which already is, and thus the feedback our thoughts leave on our "soul". But once you have learned to think "life-affirming", you will also be able to follow the teachings of Buddha more easily, then you will be able to dive further and deeper into philosophy.
Who thinks "positive", who thinks "negative" (according to Buddha there is also no "positive" and also no "negative"), nothing we can change, everything will come exactly as it has to come, so why get upset, why burden the thinking. Better to think about the next step, which would be to accept "enlightenment" as a personal goal.
We also attract the things which we send out! The way is therefore the goal!
Wandering goal has reached, of the suffering freely, after long rolling, freely he stands to all sides, all fetters are fallen
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
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What we lack for "enlightenment" is a liberated thinking. The old patterns, which keep us from our perfection, fears, worries, hardships, even real fear pervades us again and again, the uncertainties of life are solidified in our thought palace, must first be smashed according to the teacher of all teachers. Whoever can banish these poisons from his thinking, unimagined joys await him, the infinite freedom that awakening offers us.
Finally become "master" of your ego, of your thoughts, of your life. Because it doesn't matter if you go through life laughing or crying, the world will continue to turn regardless, not taking note of your situation. If at all, your change of mind will be noticed by your closest environment, but not even that is certain. Only for you there will be a change, because from the awakening of your consciousness there will be a superiority against all possible strokes of fate (and believe me, they will come). But if you are ready to take responsibility for your incarnation and your karma, you must (also) inevitably deal with the teachings of the Indian prince, because otherwise life is just a sequence of events that leave no impression.
Have faith in your ego and in your existence, this world does not have to be only torment and fear, no. Thoughts are our being, according to Buddha we shape our world with them. So, do you want to use the power of positive thinking?
At least as long as you, as a "feel-good Buddhist", have not yet set out on the path to awakening, as long as you still think in the learned categories that you cannot (yet) leave? It is only up to you whether you consider the rainy day as "depressing" or as "cozy", otherwise nothing changes.
Nothing we can change, but our way of looking at things, which already is, and thus the feedback our thoughts leave on our "soul". But once you have learned to think "life-affirming", you will also be able to follow the teachings of Buddha more easily, then you will be able to dive further and deeper into philosophy.
Who thinks "positive", who thinks "negative" (according to Buddha there is also no "positive" and also no "negative"), nothing we can change, everything will come exactly as it has to come, so why get upset, why burden the thinking. Better to think about the next step, which would be to accept "enlightenment" as a personal goal.
We also attract the things which we send out! The way is therefore the goal!
Wandering goal has reached, of the suffering freely, after long rolling, freely he stands to all sides, all fetters are fallen
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
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6 Minuten
We build our cages ourselves
Man is a strange animal, he builds his own cages, because he does not want to look further than his "intellect" can overlook the affairs.
What lies outside of his intellect, that is negated, "head in the sand", that will already help. But it doesn't, the transient catches up with us all, no matter how much we resist it.
In order to have as little as possible to do with reality, all kinds of cages are built, by those affected, but also by other people who want to regulate life for themselves (and for all others), so that they themselves feel "more comfortable", because it must not be what goes beyond the horizon.
And so more and more cages are built, people build their cages themselves, nobody and nothing locks them up, only they themselves do it.
All the rules that have been created in the course of time, they slow down the people, more and more is regulated, forbidden, restricted, as long as this goes, until too many cages have been built, then everything discharges in a big bang, all the anger, the disappointment and the longing.
Buddhists can (should) look behind the scenes, not be concerned with building cages, and of course always try to overcome the existing limits, because they have an inner feeling that shows them the way, the way that the great teacher has already gone, that people went before him (who are not known to us), and that so many people have gone since his lifetime.
For this, there must be no more cages, because these are precisely "containers" that prevent us from progressing, imprison us, keep us in one (spiritual) place. And we don't want exactly that, we don't want to suffer anymore, not to be "caught" in the cycle of suffering, but to achieve "liberation". And yes, this world view "pisses off" some fellow human beings, because these want to regulate all other persons, to keep them "caught" in their misery; gone along, caught along!
Free yourself from the cages!
But how should this go, this freeing? What could we do to break our shackles?
First of all, we must look at things realistically, not idealistically; Buddhists are realists, not dreamers. According to Buddha, we should see rightly, recognize rightly, then speak rightly and act rightly (see Buddhism: The Message).
Only then we can see which cages are holding us captive!
Only then we can think about which cages we can live with and which not! Which ones we accept out of consideration, but which ones we don't.
The way is the goal!
If the five obstacles still exist in a seeker, he considers them as his debt to the world, or as a kind of illness, also simply as a captivity.
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
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Man is a strange animal, he builds his own cages, because he does not want to look further than his "intellect" can overlook the affairs.
What lies outside of his intellect, that is negated, "head in the sand", that will already help. But it doesn't, the transient catches up with us all, no matter how much we resist it.
In order to have as little as possible to do with reality, all kinds of cages are built, by those affected, but also by other people who want to regulate life for themselves (and for all others), so that they themselves feel "more comfortable", because it must not be what goes beyond the horizon.
And so more and more cages are built, people build their cages themselves, nobody and nothing locks them up, only they themselves do it.
All the rules that have been created in the course of time, they slow down the people, more and more is regulated, forbidden, restricted, as long as this goes, until too many cages have been built, then everything discharges in a big bang, all the anger, the disappointment and the longing.
Buddhists can (should) look behind the scenes, not be concerned with building cages, and of course always try to overcome the existing limits, because they have an inner feeling that shows them the way, the way that the great teacher has already gone, that people went before him (who are not known to us), and that so many people have gone since his lifetime.
For this, there must be no more cages, because these are precisely "containers" that prevent us from progressing, imprison us, keep us in one (spiritual) place. And we don't want exactly that, we don't want to suffer anymore, not to be "caught" in the cycle of suffering, but to achieve "liberation". And yes, this world view "pisses off" some fellow human beings, because these want to regulate all other persons, to keep them "caught" in their misery; gone along, caught along!
Free yourself from the cages!
But how should this go, this freeing? What could we do to break our shackles?
First of all, we must look at things realistically, not idealistically; Buddhists are realists, not dreamers. According to Buddha, we should see rightly, recognize rightly, then speak rightly and act rightly (see Buddhism: The Message).
Only then we can see which cages are holding us captive!
Only then we can think about which cages we can live with and which not! Which ones we accept out of consideration, but which ones we don't.
The way is the goal!
If the five obstacles still exist in a seeker, he considers them as his debt to the world, or as a kind of illness, also simply as a captivity.
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
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6 Minuten
Trips
My new life as a "Shaolin monk" began to please me very much, the doubts were gone, yes, I felt "comfortable" in the temple, people began to greet me, the temple guard let me pass without a flinch, through the gate of the monks. My master must have had a conversation with the man at the gate, instructed him to let me in, I was one of them. My Chinese improved, I could speak a few sentences, the local people began to respect me, which was also (and especially) due to the fact that I did not "give in", but obviously "bit my way through" (otherwise I would not have been seen in the temple for so long).
The training was always three days long, then there was a day off. There we did something, went by cab via the nearest city Dengfeng to the provincial capital Zhengzhou, where I could stock up on supplies, we visited a restaurant, I could call home (at that time there were no cell phones, some people don't know that cell phones have only been around for about 20 years).
On the way from the temple to Dengfeng, we passed countless Kung Fu schools that had settled along the road. Only then did I realize how lucky I was to be "in the temple", to have been accepted there. I simply drove past these countless schools on the way here, because I wanted to go to the temple, not to a Kung Fu school. I still didn't realize that the chance to stay in the temple was somewhat smaller than a lottery six, I understood that only later.
On nice days, all schools had students in front of the schools on the training grounds, which were similar to barracks yards made of bare concrete, which could hardly be seen because of the students. All dressed in uniform, sportswear (like school administration) in uniform design, with the logo of the school on the chest, practicing in step, kept in line with barked instructions. If you haven't seen something like this, it's hard to imagine the crowds. Always in groups, an older student as "Vorturner", the master (if he was to be seen at all) on a gallery, from where he could better supervise the countless students.
We quickly passed through Dengfeng, the way to Zhengzhou by cab took about 5 hours (today there is a highway that runs straight through the area; this highway (about 150 km) was built in 3 months, about 10,000 construction workers with thousands of machines pulled the construction through in a short time).
As always: The way is the goal!
It is almost impossible to find an area that I would not have already experienced on my long trip
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
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My new life as a "Shaolin monk" began to please me very much, the doubts were gone, yes, I felt "comfortable" in the temple, people began to greet me, the temple guard let me pass without a flinch, through the gate of the monks. My master must have had a conversation with the man at the gate, instructed him to let me in, I was one of them. My Chinese improved, I could speak a few sentences, the local people began to respect me, which was also (and especially) due to the fact that I did not "give in", but obviously "bit my way through" (otherwise I would not have been seen in the temple for so long).
The training was always three days long, then there was a day off. There we did something, went by cab via the nearest city Dengfeng to the provincial capital Zhengzhou, where I could stock up on supplies, we visited a restaurant, I could call home (at that time there were no cell phones, some people don't know that cell phones have only been around for about 20 years).
On the way from the temple to Dengfeng, we passed countless Kung Fu schools that had settled along the road. Only then did I realize how lucky I was to be "in the temple", to have been accepted there. I simply drove past these countless schools on the way here, because I wanted to go to the temple, not to a Kung Fu school. I still didn't realize that the chance to stay in the temple was somewhat smaller than a lottery six, I understood that only later.
On nice days, all schools had students in front of the schools on the training grounds, which were similar to barracks yards made of bare concrete, which could hardly be seen because of the students. All dressed in uniform, sportswear (like school administration) in uniform design, with the logo of the school on the chest, practicing in step, kept in line with barked instructions. If you haven't seen something like this, it's hard to imagine the crowds. Always in groups, an older student as "Vorturner", the master (if he was to be seen at all) on a gallery, from where he could better supervise the countless students.
We quickly passed through Dengfeng, the way to Zhengzhou by cab took about 5 hours (today there is a highway that runs straight through the area; this highway (about 150 km) was built in 3 months, about 10,000 construction workers with thousands of machines pulled the construction through in a short time).
As always: The way is the goal!
It is almost impossible to find an area that I would not have already experienced on my long trip
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
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6 Minuten
The salt of wisdom part 2
Arriving at the river, the young man took a deep breath, everything had happened so quickly, what was the monk trying to tell him, that salt tastes "salty", that was already clear to him before, had he fallen for a charlatan?
Around him were many people, some lying stretched out in the grass next to the river, others meditating, still others were just silent, gazing at the water, or simply resting on the shore. The young man wondered greatly, there was a magic about the place, he could feel it.
His family had sent him here, surely his loved ones had thought of something, if he was already here now, then he wanted to go through with the matter, the way here was far, he did not want to leave with "empty hands" again. He opened the small letter, there was written in wonderful handwritten letters the following: "Take the salt from the bowl and throw it into the river, then take a handful of the water and drink it! Afterwards you come again into the hall of the temple, I wait there for you.
Again there was a long line in front of him, he had to wait. This time, however, he watched what was happening closely, he had become curious. He saw how many questioners came to the monk, drank there apparently a glass with water, then got a small letter and went away (like him before). When it was his turn, the master immediately addressed him, "So, how did the water taste?" "Master, it was delicious, clear water from the mountains, very refreshing." "Did you taste the salt?" "No master, not at all, it was completely neutral water, no taste."
Then the white master reached out his hand, put it on the shoulder of the bewildered young man, he spoke, "Your sufferings are like the salt, they are always the same, no more, no less. The pain is the same, the thoughts are the same! But what is different, that is the taste of the suffering, it depends on the vessel in which we put the salt (or the sufferings)."
"If you suffer again, and you will suffer a lot more, there is only one thing you can do. You can change the way you look at the way you let the suffering come to you. To stay with the comparison with salt, you can choose to be a jar or a river, it's just a choice. Which container do you want to choose for your future?
The way is always the goal!
Student, this is the path that leads to wisdom.
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
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Arriving at the river, the young man took a deep breath, everything had happened so quickly, what was the monk trying to tell him, that salt tastes "salty", that was already clear to him before, had he fallen for a charlatan?
Around him were many people, some lying stretched out in the grass next to the river, others meditating, still others were just silent, gazing at the water, or simply resting on the shore. The young man wondered greatly, there was a magic about the place, he could feel it.
His family had sent him here, surely his loved ones had thought of something, if he was already here now, then he wanted to go through with the matter, the way here was far, he did not want to leave with "empty hands" again. He opened the small letter, there was written in wonderful handwritten letters the following: "Take the salt from the bowl and throw it into the river, then take a handful of the water and drink it! Afterwards you come again into the hall of the temple, I wait there for you.
Again there was a long line in front of him, he had to wait. This time, however, he watched what was happening closely, he had become curious. He saw how many questioners came to the monk, drank there apparently a glass with water, then got a small letter and went away (like him before). When it was his turn, the master immediately addressed him, "So, how did the water taste?" "Master, it was delicious, clear water from the mountains, very refreshing." "Did you taste the salt?" "No master, not at all, it was completely neutral water, no taste."
Then the white master reached out his hand, put it on the shoulder of the bewildered young man, he spoke, "Your sufferings are like the salt, they are always the same, no more, no less. The pain is the same, the thoughts are the same! But what is different, that is the taste of the suffering, it depends on the vessel in which we put the salt (or the sufferings)."
"If you suffer again, and you will suffer a lot more, there is only one thing you can do. You can change the way you look at the way you let the suffering come to you. To stay with the comparison with salt, you can choose to be a jar or a river, it's just a choice. Which container do you want to choose for your future?
The way is always the goal!
Student, this is the path that leads to wisdom.
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
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6 Minuten
The Salt of Wisdom
Buddha once stated that his teaching would be like salt, since the "taste" of his words would be the same for everyone.
There is a Buddhist story which (among other things) is also about salt. It is about a very sad young man who suffered a lot from his "fate".
His family advised him to go to the Buddhist temple nearby, where there was a wise Chan (Zen) master who might be able to help him. When his suffering became worse and worse, he went to the temple in the mountains, hoping for wise words from the spiritual teacher, maybe he knew a way out of the dilemma he was in.
Arriving at the monastery, he had to be patient, many people came here to ask for help, the line was long, but the master spoke to all those waiting, one by one he listened to the problems of each, then gave answers and hope, suggestions and proposals.
Then it was his turn, he spoke, "Master, I have so many problems in my life, that's why I'm always sad, can't see a way out, I'm tired of everything, don't know what to do anymore."
The monk listened to the complaints, looked into the young man's face without saying a word, for a few moments he taxed the young face. The silence became longer, uneasiness spread in the questioner, what should he do now, had the old man understood him?
Then the master reached to the back, there were many empty glasses stacked, and a large bowl. He brought a glass to the front, placed it between the men, and put the bowl next to the glass. He beckoned to a young monk, who immediately filled the glass with water.
Now the master spoke, "Take some of the salt from the bowl and put it in the water, stir, then drink the glass." The young man did as he was told. The master continued, "Well, how did it taste?" "Terribly salty," was the reply.
"Good, that was to be expected." Now the master reached behind him again on the other side, there were small envelopes, nicely wrapped, and very small bowls in a big pile, he brought out an envelope and a bowl.
He said, "Now you take some of the salt and put it in the little bowl. Then you go to the little river down by the entrance to the temple, open the letter and do exactly what you read there, then you come back to me."
Tomorrow, read on to see how the story turned out then.
The way is the goal!
As a flame goes out from the wind, is blown away and concepts no longer fit, so is the way freed from "spirit and body": He can no longer be grasped conceptually
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
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Buddha once stated that his teaching would be like salt, since the "taste" of his words would be the same for everyone.
There is a Buddhist story which (among other things) is also about salt. It is about a very sad young man who suffered a lot from his "fate".
His family advised him to go to the Buddhist temple nearby, where there was a wise Chan (Zen) master who might be able to help him. When his suffering became worse and worse, he went to the temple in the mountains, hoping for wise words from the spiritual teacher, maybe he knew a way out of the dilemma he was in.
Arriving at the monastery, he had to be patient, many people came here to ask for help, the line was long, but the master spoke to all those waiting, one by one he listened to the problems of each, then gave answers and hope, suggestions and proposals.
Then it was his turn, he spoke, "Master, I have so many problems in my life, that's why I'm always sad, can't see a way out, I'm tired of everything, don't know what to do anymore."
The monk listened to the complaints, looked into the young man's face without saying a word, for a few moments he taxed the young face. The silence became longer, uneasiness spread in the questioner, what should he do now, had the old man understood him?
Then the master reached to the back, there were many empty glasses stacked, and a large bowl. He brought a glass to the front, placed it between the men, and put the bowl next to the glass. He beckoned to a young monk, who immediately filled the glass with water.
Now the master spoke, "Take some of the salt from the bowl and put it in the water, stir, then drink the glass." The young man did as he was told. The master continued, "Well, how did it taste?" "Terribly salty," was the reply.
"Good, that was to be expected." Now the master reached behind him again on the other side, there were small envelopes, nicely wrapped, and very small bowls in a big pile, he brought out an envelope and a bowl.
He said, "Now you take some of the salt and put it in the little bowl. Then you go to the little river down by the entrance to the temple, open the letter and do exactly what you read there, then you come back to me."
Tomorrow, read on to see how the story turned out then.
The way is the goal!
As a flame goes out from the wind, is blown away and concepts no longer fit, so is the way freed from "spirit and body": He can no longer be grasped conceptually
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
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5 Minuten
Set positive anchors part 2
Positive anchors have an effect on our subconscious, similar to a sign on the refrigerator, such an anchor brings the situation to our attention (whenever the right moment comes).
You can imagine this as if you stumble over the same carpet crease over and over again, being reminded to straighten the carpet. Always in the same place, where the crease is.
We can also bring such affirmations with pictures into our mind palace, for example when you get angry, then a very special picture appears in front of your (inner) eye, which will (or at least should) calm you down, small things that you link with something in your mind. For example, in case you lose your temper, then implement the image "take a deep breath" in your mind palace.
If life seems difficult to you, make an anchor with the slogan "The way is the goal", for example with the image of a small Buddha in front of your eyes.
If you have a lot of work and sometimes feel little energy, then set yourself an anchor in the future, such as the feeling of having "made it", so instead of an image connect an emotion as an anchor.
Or if you suffer from self-worth issues, then put an anchor on your positive sides, like this: I am valuable, even if I am not the best at every task, set yourself a positive emotion as an anchor in case you doubt yourself again.
Also, you can decorate the objects of everyday life with your favorite sayings or conscious guidelines, as an example I give the refrigerator on which you stick a picture of the figure you want.
Or why not have a tea or coffee mug made with one of your "wishes", or with a clever phrase (that impresses you). Or a cover for your cell phone made just for them, with a catchy slogan on it that might have an impact on you.
For my part, I put a small sticker on the inside of my apartment door on which I painted an exclamation point, it's to remind me not to lose my cool no matter what happens to me "outside".
Or make one of your passwords (on your cell phone or PC) as an anchor, like "in-the-rest-lies-the-power", or "always-smile", or even "the-way-is-the-goal", good is also "Buddha-said".
Anyway, anchors are a positive support on the way, which is known to be the goal!
The confusions of the ideas do not concern a wise man
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
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Positive anchors have an effect on our subconscious, similar to a sign on the refrigerator, such an anchor brings the situation to our attention (whenever the right moment comes).
You can imagine this as if you stumble over the same carpet crease over and over again, being reminded to straighten the carpet. Always in the same place, where the crease is.
We can also bring such affirmations with pictures into our mind palace, for example when you get angry, then a very special picture appears in front of your (inner) eye, which will (or at least should) calm you down, small things that you link with something in your mind. For example, in case you lose your temper, then implement the image "take a deep breath" in your mind palace.
If life seems difficult to you, make an anchor with the slogan "The way is the goal", for example with the image of a small Buddha in front of your eyes.
If you have a lot of work and sometimes feel little energy, then set yourself an anchor in the future, such as the feeling of having "made it", so instead of an image connect an emotion as an anchor.
Or if you suffer from self-worth issues, then put an anchor on your positive sides, like this: I am valuable, even if I am not the best at every task, set yourself a positive emotion as an anchor in case you doubt yourself again.
Also, you can decorate the objects of everyday life with your favorite sayings or conscious guidelines, as an example I give the refrigerator on which you stick a picture of the figure you want.
Or why not have a tea or coffee mug made with one of your "wishes", or with a clever phrase (that impresses you). Or a cover for your cell phone made just for them, with a catchy slogan on it that might have an impact on you.
For my part, I put a small sticker on the inside of my apartment door on which I painted an exclamation point, it's to remind me not to lose my cool no matter what happens to me "outside".
Or make one of your passwords (on your cell phone or PC) as an anchor, like "in-the-rest-lies-the-power", or "always-smile", or even "the-way-is-the-goal", good is also "Buddha-said".
Anyway, anchors are a positive support on the way, which is known to be the goal!
The confusions of the ideas do not concern a wise man
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
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6 Minuten
My lunch break in the temple
After four hours of training in the morning, there was always a long lunch break, which I usually "longed for", because my muscles were constantly tired, the exercises were extremely strenuous, the master was relentless, up and down, the same movements over and over again, even in my sleep I went through the steps. That's when the lunch break was a wonderful stopover. Generally, we trained for three days, then there was a completely free day where we did joint activities, but more of that elsewhere.
After training I dried my sweat, there was a watering hole only in the public toilets, and they were crammed with tourists who mostly looked at me in disbelief, a tall white man in training clothes, sweaty and out of breath, what was he doing here? So then just dry off, put on another shirt and pants, then went off to eat with my master.
Sometimes we sat down in the temple canteen, which was hidden in a side yard, sometimes we went to the stalls in front of the temple door, which prepared all kinds of delicacies directly on the spot (at this point I would like to refer to my article "The One is the Base", which is about exactly such a stall (and its owner)). My master always chose a different food for us, the choice was inexhaustible, he was known everywhere. Soon I realized that there were not many monks in the temple, most people were visitors or martial arts students of the many surrounding schools, but monks, that were only a few hundred pieces, and in the fitness state of my new friend I had seen very few at all, which is why my master was just known "like a colorful dog".
After the meal, we sat down on beautiful days in the sun, if it rained then evenly into its hermitage. After only a few days, I suggested that I learn English for him and he learns Chinese for me. It quickly became a concentrated effort and we made good progress. So the lunch break was well used, and we also had time for a little nap.
After exactly three and a half hours there was the second part of the training, again up and down, on good days at the training place in a side yard, on rainy days in the Mönchsklause. Punctual and without excuses, discipline was the central word in my new life as a "Shaolin monk".
The way is the goal!
(the pictures are my original pictures from the time in the temple)
An enlightened one speaks about the teachings and discipline
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
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After four hours of training in the morning, there was always a long lunch break, which I usually "longed for", because my muscles were constantly tired, the exercises were extremely strenuous, the master was relentless, up and down, the same movements over and over again, even in my sleep I went through the steps. That's when the lunch break was a wonderful stopover. Generally, we trained for three days, then there was a completely free day where we did joint activities, but more of that elsewhere.
After training I dried my sweat, there was a watering hole only in the public toilets, and they were crammed with tourists who mostly looked at me in disbelief, a tall white man in training clothes, sweaty and out of breath, what was he doing here? So then just dry off, put on another shirt and pants, then went off to eat with my master.
Sometimes we sat down in the temple canteen, which was hidden in a side yard, sometimes we went to the stalls in front of the temple door, which prepared all kinds of delicacies directly on the spot (at this point I would like to refer to my article "The One is the Base", which is about exactly such a stall (and its owner)). My master always chose a different food for us, the choice was inexhaustible, he was known everywhere. Soon I realized that there were not many monks in the temple, most people were visitors or martial arts students of the many surrounding schools, but monks, that were only a few hundred pieces, and in the fitness state of my new friend I had seen very few at all, which is why my master was just known "like a colorful dog".
After the meal, we sat down on beautiful days in the sun, if it rained then evenly into its hermitage. After only a few days, I suggested that I learn English for him and he learns Chinese for me. It quickly became a concentrated effort and we made good progress. So the lunch break was well used, and we also had time for a little nap.
After exactly three and a half hours there was the second part of the training, again up and down, on good days at the training place in a side yard, on rainy days in the Mönchsklause. Punctual and without excuses, discipline was the central word in my new life as a "Shaolin monk".
The way is the goal!
(the pictures are my original pictures from the time in the temple)
An enlightened one speaks about the teachings and discipline
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
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6 Minuten
Set positive anchors
Who does not know them, the weak moments, the temptations of life, the voice of nature, the attacks with anger, hunger or depression.
It can help to set so-called "anchors" in order to hold on to them, similar to a ship that would also drift without a foothold. What have we not resolved to do, to be more mindful, to do more sports, to meditate daily, to lose weight, to be around people more, and then life keeps interfering, throwing us off track, taking us off course.
Sure, we are only human, where there are people, it becomes human. But we wanted more, to achieve something, not just to live dully from day to day.
According to Buddha, it is completely irrelevant whether we achieve something or not. But not the big group of "feel-good Buddhists", most of them are not sure yet if they want to awaken at all. Therefore, these people should first slowly approach the teachings of Buddha, e.g. by setting said anchors.
Anchors are positive supports for the subconscious, they remind us of the things we considered important, whether this is still the case when the anchor takes hold, that is a completely different matter.
An anchor is a memory set on purpose, something like this: When I arrive at the supermarket I first go to buy a paper towel. The anchor is set in the supermarket, the reminder is "kitchen roll". My cell phone (Apple) also offers such a kind of reminder, I can enter that it should remind me of the "kitchen roll" when I enter the supermarket. Of course, I have to enter the address for that as well.
But I mean a more intellectual reminder (anchor), something like this: When I get a craving for chips again, I see my body floating in front of me in my inner eye, in the actual state on the left, in the target state on the right.
Or exactly like this (left and right) I imagine how I will look tomorrow if I drink the bottle of wine now, I set the anchor for myself in case I think about alcohol.
Or when I get angry, I think of my "mindfulness anchor", or when I catch myself running through life listlessly, then I also think of the "mindfulness anchor".
When I get depressed then the "happiness anchor", which I link to something that makes me happy. And then, at a special time of the day, the "Sports Anchor." Do you understand what I'm trying to point out?
This is how we can link our subconscious to our conscious, practically building a kind of "mnemonic bridge" for us.
The way is (as always) the goal!
Quickly to the good! Keep your mind closed from evil! You already enjoy the evil, do the good you sullenly.
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
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(Please also download my app "Buddha-Blog English" from the Apple and Android stores)
Who does not know them, the weak moments, the temptations of life, the voice of nature, the attacks with anger, hunger or depression.
It can help to set so-called "anchors" in order to hold on to them, similar to a ship that would also drift without a foothold. What have we not resolved to do, to be more mindful, to do more sports, to meditate daily, to lose weight, to be around people more, and then life keeps interfering, throwing us off track, taking us off course.
Sure, we are only human, where there are people, it becomes human. But we wanted more, to achieve something, not just to live dully from day to day.
According to Buddha, it is completely irrelevant whether we achieve something or not. But not the big group of "feel-good Buddhists", most of them are not sure yet if they want to awaken at all. Therefore, these people should first slowly approach the teachings of Buddha, e.g. by setting said anchors.
Anchors are positive supports for the subconscious, they remind us of the things we considered important, whether this is still the case when the anchor takes hold, that is a completely different matter.
An anchor is a memory set on purpose, something like this: When I arrive at the supermarket I first go to buy a paper towel. The anchor is set in the supermarket, the reminder is "kitchen roll". My cell phone (Apple) also offers such a kind of reminder, I can enter that it should remind me of the "kitchen roll" when I enter the supermarket. Of course, I have to enter the address for that as well.
But I mean a more intellectual reminder (anchor), something like this: When I get a craving for chips again, I see my body floating in front of me in my inner eye, in the actual state on the left, in the target state on the right.
Or exactly like this (left and right) I imagine how I will look tomorrow if I drink the bottle of wine now, I set the anchor for myself in case I think about alcohol.
Or when I get angry, I think of my "mindfulness anchor", or when I catch myself running through life listlessly, then I also think of the "mindfulness anchor".
When I get depressed then the "happiness anchor", which I link to something that makes me happy. And then, at a special time of the day, the "Sports Anchor." Do you understand what I'm trying to point out?
This is how we can link our subconscious to our conscious, practically building a kind of "mnemonic bridge" for us.
The way is (as always) the goal!
Quickly to the good! Keep your mind closed from evil! You already enjoy the evil, do the good you sullenly.
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
Copyright: https://shaolin-rainer.de
(Please also download my app "Buddha-Blog English" from the Apple and Android stores)
6 Minuten
Sleep disorders part 2
Whoever suffers from sleep disorders has a hard time, unrested, grumpy and contrite, relief is sought, usually the problems are already solidified, good advice is expensive.
According to the teacher of all teachers, all disturbances in behavior are due to an exaggerated ego, the thought palace rolls its senseless thoughts (would have, would have, if, if, if), the fears become overwhelming, the worries take on a life of their own, sleep is not to be thought of.
It is very difficult to break this cycle, and it takes a lot of effort to tackle the problem. Well, going to the doctor and asking for medication is one solution. The other option is to get rid of anxiety, if possible with the teachings of Buddha.
For all those "feel-good Buddhists" who have only just sniffed the essence of the teachings, for them an all-around punch is recommended, mixed with meditative exercises, sufficient physical exercise (working out and then going to sleep), and a coordinated medication, which, however, requires a fair amount of personal initiative.
I suggest to stock up on natural remedies (such as valerian, lavender, melatonin, sleep berry, St. John's wort and hemp oil) in the drugstore of one's choice, and then to buy sleep stars (over-the-counter sleep aid) and Lioran (passion flower herb) in the pharmacy. Furthermore, chamomile (powder) and Reishi extract (powder) are sleep-promoting (easy to get on the net). These should then be taken in an aging manner, always changing the composition, sometimes taking this remedy, leaving out that one, etc. (for legal reasons I must of course point out that a physician is to be asked before).
From traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) I recommend Suan Zao Ren Tang Wan for a long-term treatment, Fu Fang Zao Ren Jiao Nang for a quick solution, and Suan Zao Ren as well as Yuan Zhi as herbs or as a dried powder (then with water) also for long-term use, as well as Wu Wei Zi (Schizandra) for a daily intake (again: ask a doctor).
Sleep disorders are a serious problem, I understand that unrested you can not concentrate, also will not find yourself, the lack of sleep is strongly inhibiting.
For my part, I take two preparations a day from a small box containing all the substances listed above, I then choose them daily according to my mood, always different, so that no habituation can occur. My sleep is wonderful, however, it also happens to me that I sleep "badly" about two times a year, then I always feel "terrible". How do people who have this problem every day feel?
As always, the way is the goal!
Will he become someone who acts knowledgeably while walking, standing, sitting, falling asleep, waking up, talking and remaining silent?
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
Copyright: https://shaolin-rainer.de
(Please also download my app "Buddha-Blog English" from the Apple and Android stores)
Whoever suffers from sleep disorders has a hard time, unrested, grumpy and contrite, relief is sought, usually the problems are already solidified, good advice is expensive.
According to the teacher of all teachers, all disturbances in behavior are due to an exaggerated ego, the thought palace rolls its senseless thoughts (would have, would have, if, if, if), the fears become overwhelming, the worries take on a life of their own, sleep is not to be thought of.
It is very difficult to break this cycle, and it takes a lot of effort to tackle the problem. Well, going to the doctor and asking for medication is one solution. The other option is to get rid of anxiety, if possible with the teachings of Buddha.
For all those "feel-good Buddhists" who have only just sniffed the essence of the teachings, for them an all-around punch is recommended, mixed with meditative exercises, sufficient physical exercise (working out and then going to sleep), and a coordinated medication, which, however, requires a fair amount of personal initiative.
I suggest to stock up on natural remedies (such as valerian, lavender, melatonin, sleep berry, St. John's wort and hemp oil) in the drugstore of one's choice, and then to buy sleep stars (over-the-counter sleep aid) and Lioran (passion flower herb) in the pharmacy. Furthermore, chamomile (powder) and Reishi extract (powder) are sleep-promoting (easy to get on the net). These should then be taken in an aging manner, always changing the composition, sometimes taking this remedy, leaving out that one, etc. (for legal reasons I must of course point out that a physician is to be asked before).
From traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) I recommend Suan Zao Ren Tang Wan for a long-term treatment, Fu Fang Zao Ren Jiao Nang for a quick solution, and Suan Zao Ren as well as Yuan Zhi as herbs or as a dried powder (then with water) also for long-term use, as well as Wu Wei Zi (Schizandra) for a daily intake (again: ask a doctor).
Sleep disorders are a serious problem, I understand that unrested you can not concentrate, also will not find yourself, the lack of sleep is strongly inhibiting.
For my part, I take two preparations a day from a small box containing all the substances listed above, I then choose them daily according to my mood, always different, so that no habituation can occur. My sleep is wonderful, however, it also happens to me that I sleep "badly" about two times a year, then I always feel "terrible". How do people who have this problem every day feel?
As always, the way is the goal!
Will he become someone who acts knowledgeably while walking, standing, sitting, falling asleep, waking up, talking and remaining silent?
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
Copyright: https://shaolin-rainer.de
(Please also download my app "Buddha-Blog English" from the Apple and Android stores)
