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.

Living in a larger city makes finding true happiness hard enough already. The human race isn’t meant to be surrounded by its own kind in mass amounts. Personal space, and comfort bubbles are constantly invaded without any effort. Making a leisure stroll down a street an irritating, frustrating expedition. Let alone having to deal with bad mannerisms.
Staring is never a necessary action for any scenario, and no body likes to be stared at. Not the homeless, not the rich, not the punks, or the indiscreet . As people strive for a better self everyone has to make the effort to also be a better civilian. Respecting others is a major step in respecting yourself and finding pure enlightenment. This not only means to not stare at others but to also not escalating instances when you get stared at (for what ever reason).
As the days pass everyone try to respect everyones personal space and remember to breath, stay calm and enjoy the fact that maybe your being starred at for a good reason, people show attraction in odd ways sometime. The cup is half full sometimes.

So I was going to write about the flying spaghetti monster, but I am afraid that is going to have to wait till tomorrow. I have much more important information to tell.
As allot of people think that they are searching for enlightenment, really all that they are searching for is happiness. To be happy doing whatever it is that you are doing that that moment would be everybody’s dream come true. Whether it be working or relaxing or making supper would being everything.
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Its a fun exciting concept that definitely needs more promotion. And if it getting large enough I can see it getting more serious and becoming a change that would be.. interesting.. If anything.

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.

I’m a huge fan of Funny fiction. Christopher Moore, Douglas Adams, Douglas Coupland, are just a few authors I read quite steadily. They just make me laugh all the time and I believe that people need to laugh more often. I believe that enlightenment needs laughter. To have a steadily quiet mind you need to have happiness, which derives from laughter.
Christopher Moores Lamb is one of the funniest books I have ever read. With hidden lessons and witty characters you really can’t ask for much more. As you follow the path of Jesus’ childhood you learn a completely new view point to Christianity helping the none believer not be so dismissive on the topic of religion. But instead learn how to see past the base layer and really learn the meaning behind the teachings of certain parable. Not to mention the hilarious antics of his best friend Biff, a child that even his own mother can’t understand.
This is a must read in my books. I don’t remember the last time I got so many odd looks, as I literally laughed out loud while on the bus or in public. Great read but bad for trying to keep a sane profile in public.