Tech, geek and all things neat.

Enlightenment has nothing to do with other people, if you don’t want it to. It has everything to do with your inner self and your connection with the earth.
You don’t have to have unconditional love for absolutely every person that you come across, it doesn’t hurt if you can honestly do it, but you don’t need it. How close my soul is in touch with the earth is what I believe. The Gaia theory is a fine example of our connection with the earth. Everything is connected in one main stream of life, always rotating always shifting. Meditation, yoga, martial art practices are all form of helping us get back in touch the beat of life that flows through us and into the earth.
The earth has a rhythm that it works at. It speeds up and slows down but it stays at the same consistent tempo. This tempo is the same tempo that runs in our hearts, makes our steps to walk, our fingers to type, every movement for everyday activity. Cars, computers, stress, work , are unnatural. They’re actions that we created to suit our economy. Run different rhythms then nature intended.
Thats why these days people need more meditation, more focus to get back in touch with the earth. Each person is like a hair on an arm coexisting with each other through our roots in the arm. yet still completely independent interms of work and individuality. It helps a lot to get along with each other but its most important to be one with the earth and rhythm of Gaia.

Many of you may have seen this on Oprah but the Neti pot has to be one of the strangest procedures for cleaning your nasal passage that I have ever seen. I have yet to try it and I am quite excited to give it a whirl, but I will admit that I it will take me so serious time before I can muster up the courage to purposely enact the sensation of drowning just to have a clean nostril.
A Neti pot essentially is a small tea pot that you insert, the proportionally planned spout, into your nostril and till your head to the apposing side. After you fill the pot up with warm salt water. The water then flows through one nostril and out the other. Once half the pot is empty you then turn your head to the opposite side and repeat. Cleaning out both nostrils. How this works without having the luke warm salt water run down your throat cause you to gasp, choke, then spit up salty nose inners is a mystery to me, even though I have seen countless videos of successful nose cleaning on youtube(view discretion for this link).
I always had plans on asking a monk or even a meditation practitioner exactly what they do when a nostril gets clogged up before meditation. I guess this is one simple solution that they just might preform. Not only for meditation but for any worker that deals with dust, benefit from this item. I know when I used to do concrete forming that this little device would have come in handy at the end of the day.
If anybody owns a Neti pot please feel free to share your experience. It’s definitely an interesting little device that I hope to hear more about. Even if I’m not to sure if it’ll help achieve enlightenment or if it’s just insanity.