But of course, its just a 10 day course. With 45 days you would get much more positive results, as it seems to be necessary to real understand the results of the technique and purify the mind. I hadn't the luck for any longer course so far, but I will someday;)
http://www.fraughtwithperil.com/blogs/bholly/archi ves/000569.html But here i must object, Vipasanna can not be hold in lesser then 10 day courses. Buddha originally hold 45 day courses, but as time passed, people had lesser time to spear so they shortened the courses bit by bit. 30, 20, 10 days, then 7 and found them to short. This is the reason real vipasanna is always hold in 10 day courses, which i can confirm. Day 7-9 are very important days, because there is your mind very very sensitive. Even the 3 days anapana are a little bit short, but for a beginner enough.
Remember, Vipasanna is not a belive of any kind, its a technique of meditation to observe reallity as it is. You can't learn it through your intellect and you have to belive in nothing. You have to practicate, because it affects your subconsciousness and that is only possible through practice (and a lot of it;) )
Vipasanna is not a relligion, Buddhism is, even when Buddha always said that he doesn't want that people make a religious figure out of him, they have done it. And the worst of all, they forgot the essence: the technique.
I was christian born, but i found the churches somehow interpret the bible very, very strange and not acceptable for me. To much belive in something. I'm happy with agnosticism;)
Vipasanna is nothing i have to belive in of any kind, and experience to good results every day.
I like science and scientific view, there is nothing against it in general, but it often leads to a very bounded point of view and this very often in medicin. You have this and that sympthom, so you have this desease. POINT. Nothing else could it be. There was a studiy saining this and that, so this is the fact and nothing else. Everybody interessted in biology will discover sooner or later that the hole system is much more complex then some parts and this is where most scientists are looking at. They analyze a tiny part and this must be the reason whatsoever, try to find a fix to reduce the sympthoms and think they found a cure. It's like sitting in a box and analyzing their walls, yes. This must be the universe and I now know how it works. Then the box breaks up and, ohh. This is the universe but it's just another box.
One of the many examples is dietethics, if not even the worst. Every year another book comes out with complete new values what contains how much energy. Some years ago, cellulose didn't have any energy, now it has. But in fact, nobody even know how much enegery the body needs, how much he processes of what input, how the bowel works exactly and it processes,.... So many questions, but the answers, they are of course, the right ones.
Medicin is another good example. You have this and that sympthom, so you have this disease. Taking this and that alters the body chemical reaction, so the disease is gone. But they not even know how the body controlls his chemical balance exactly, but this doesn't seem to matter. Fixing the illness means fixing the sympthoms, not fixing the origin. And best, if they have to take their medicin daily for the rest of their lives, this makes money.
As I and mostly every other Vipasanna student has discovered, 95% of all deseases are purly psychosomatic. Nobody knows how interaction of mind and body works completly, how subconsciousness affects the body, where it even beginns and how far it goes. Of course, there are illnesses you can't fix with fixing your mind, and broken arm will medition not heal, but it will heal the impact the break had on your mind. And it always has an inpact on your subconsciousness, everything does and will most probable lead to another illness in the distant future.
It may be hard to belive, because Vipasanna is no doctrine, sect or belive. It's a technique you have to practice. It's also nothing you can quickly do and experience wonders:) Vipasanna is a very purly observation meditation, where you will experience realitly as it is and not how you want it to be and through this purify your mind from all the bad impacts your environment had on you.
Real Vipasanna courses are always hold for free, so you have nothing to loose and are open for everyone, because they are no religion whatsoever.
Good courses are organized by the Vipasanna Organization [URL:http://www.dhamma.org], but there are also other organizations that seems more or less good.
To be doubtfull is a good thing and to blindly belive my claims is not good eighter. I can just speak from my experience and from conversations with others and their experience.
Some examples: The supervisor of the last Vipasanna I took is also the manager of the drug helpdesk in zurich. He told me that they have the best results of all techniques with Vipasanna to prevent backslides from drug addicts (mostly heroin victims).
Also is Vipasanna hold in Prisons in India, New Zealand, Taiwan, Thailand, U.K., and the United States which reduces the backslides more then any other support methode. [URL:http://www.prison.dhamma.org/]
An student of my last course had a strong wheat allergy. I spoke with him on the 10st day and he said that he found the problem that caused this allergy in his memory. I hope, I will see him someday to see if the allergy has finally gone away.
I don't have an good example from me, because I don't have any body problems at all. Maybe I can say that I do not have any muscle tenseness on my neck anymore and no cramps, but the last may be food related.
I think, I have a very scientific view of the world and can assure like many scientists, how have practiced this technique, that it is not superstition or any believe. In fact I'm very suspicious about some philosophic parts of the teachings, but that's completly ok and doesn't harm the meditation technique. Maybe one day when I reach a higher level of enlightenment, I will understand, maybe when i get the first time into nirvana;)
I really would like to hear from someone with RSI if the illness faded away after a Vipasanna course.
I would be doubtfull if i would have to pay money for a course, but real Vipasanna is always hold for free. You don't have to pay anything. All personal of the course do this in their free time, because they experienced the good results of Vipasanna and want that others can learn this technique. I will go to the local Vipasanna centre for 6 weeks soon to do service there, because I want to give others the chance to learn it. I will not get a cent for it, nor does the teacher or anyone else:) I think that should clarify that Vipassana is not about money. The courses exist, because you can't learn it properly at home. There are to much distractions arround you and you would start to distract yourself when you enter one of the hard phases of the meditation. Every purification has it's hard phases where one or the other would whish to stop, but beeing somewhere else, in an environment that supports you helps greatly. Once you reach the first step of enlightenment (Bhanga) , which is normally between the 7st and 10st day of a Vipasanna, you will look laughing back. It's like getting reborn, was at least for me.
Try it out, you have nothing to loose, except some complexes in your mind that bother you thru your subconsiousness:)
There where many studies from scientists that can confirm this. Vipasanna is nothing you have to belive in and it's not a religion. It's in fact a very logical and scientific system without blind belives of anything.
The main problem, as I see it, is that vision needs to much "processor power" for our consciousness so that most other sensations must be blocked at lower levels. For example, most people can't feel their inwards (This does not mean you don't feel anything there, you are just not attentivly enough). While observing the body as it is, you will start discover the burried burdens of your past that manifests in pain in your body. This is something every vipasanna student experiences. I personally know many people with chronic pain that came back without.
You will become very balanced and peacefull with yourself, your environment and after some time even your telepathic abilities will show up (but thats another chapter:) ) I for example would need 8-9 hours sleep to be well rested, with vipasanna I sleep arround 4-5 hours, which gives me even with my minimum 2 hours vipasanna daily more time as it tooks.
As a new student, you are not even allowed to donate money for a vipasanna course, only after one 10 day course you are allowed and when you think you have profited from it. Nobody gets any money from it, it's a purly unselfish organization.
I strongly belive RSI is just another mental illness that manifests in a body disease.
The vipasanna organization http://www.dhamma.org/ organizes free courses arround the world. I'm an old student pracicating since 2 years and can really recommend this meditation for nearly everyone. You will benefit greatly and I guess RSI will also fade away.
P.S. The whole thing - filesystem as a DB - is complete crap. You can't do a bunch of fs operations in a single transaction and have ACID semantics on the transaction as a whole. Sure - searching is great. But database means much more than just a searching interface.
Sorry, but you are wrong here. Reiser4 is atomic and you can pack as many operations into one transaction as you like, you just have to use the reiser4 system call. This is, because there is no standard system call for atomic filesystem transactions. Modern filesystems are databases, build to store files and query them trough filenames, reiser4 is the first filesystem where search path can be done through plugins, therefore you can index everything you want.
Isotope batteries produce power for 12-50 years constant. But with the multi billion market of our battery industion, would be destroyed by such a device.
When you find the resonance frequence of water, it will simple fall into his parts. Everything has a resonace frequence, why should only heavy material has it.
My own experiments are not build currently
See: http://www.nuenergy.org/
Another example is the bio gas generator:
http://jlnlabs.imars.com/bingofuel/html/bfr10.ht m
Stanley Meyer for example was poisend for his water car. The hacker Thron was killed for his cryptic device,... the list is endless.
Do you realy think, people who earns billions with black oil would allow you sell a car/machine/... that will destroy their imperium. Don't be naive. Not even the state would you allow this - or do you think they will get money with water taxes ? "Ohh officer, i'm sure i used special taxed car-water for this vehice";)
I began recently to work on high frequency eletrolyse and magnetic electrolyse which hase a much better efficacy. The Energie Problem is solved decades befor, but open your eys - Nobody can sell it without risking his life.
For example:
http://www.cheniere.org/books/excalibur/moray.ht m
From "FUEL FROM WATER, Energy Independence with Hydrogen" Author Michael A.Peavey Publisher Merit, Inc., P.O. Box 694 Louisville, KY 40205 Library of Congress Number 88-188956 ISBN 0-945516-04-5 Page 22.
" The smallest amount of energy needed to electrolyse one mole of water is 65.3 Wh at 25 degrees Celcius (77 degress F). When the Hydrogen and Oxygen are recombined into water during combustion 79.3 Wh of energy is released. 14 Wh more energy is released in burning Hydrogen and Oxygen than is required to split water. This excess must be absorbed from the surrounding media(environment) in the form of heat during electolysis." [...] "At 25 degrees celcius, for voltages of 1.23 to 1.47 V, the electrolysis reaction ABSORBS HEAT. At over 1.47 V at 25 degrees celcius, the reaction gives off heat."
I'm working on a cheaper and better solution at the moment.
- Go to ebay and buy an old, working pentium notebook with a tft (normaly these are fanless) - Add a network pcmcia card when it has non ethernet interface. - Make it network bootable (if your NC didn't support it, let the harddisk in them (Just for the kernel. After the nfs-root is started you can shutdown the HD)) - If you didn't like the design, add the notebook parts in a better chassis. I had a cassette recorder which i never used. I removed the innards, put the notebook in them, add a nice plexi glass front, connected the tape buttons to a additional keyboard controller and build a lcd dot matrix panel behind them. The original keyboard is on top of the interface. The lcd displays the current song... In the big tft a playlist browser and nicer player will be located and is browsable by a remote controll, the tape buttons, the keyboard and a trackball.
The Software on the notebook will be a mozilla xul application that connects to a daemon written in python on the server. The daemon is customizable and controlles here a xmms player in a xvncserver.
If you like, you can run the audio-player on the notebook, but i prefer the server, because i can controll xmms from every pc and can power-off the jukebox interface.
The software and project is not finished yet, but will published when the first version is finished. Mail me if you are interested.
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So, my Computer will automaticly reboot if I accidently started Windows ???
This is really good news to hear !
I call it the Homer gene. :)
This looks interesting
;)
http://www.squ.edu.om/mj/Oct2001/Vipass/
But of course, its just a 10 day course.
With 45 days you would get much more positive results, as it seems to be necessary to real understand the results of the technique and purify the mind. I hadn't the luck for any longer course so far, but I will someday
kindly regards
daniel
I googled arround a little bit
a ssana/vipassana-meditation.asp
i ves/000569.html
t ml
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;)
http://www.lifepositive.com/Spirit/meditation/vip
http://www.fraughtwithperil.com/blogs/bholly/arch
But here i must object, Vipasanna can not be hold in lesser then 10 day courses. Buddha originally hold 45 day courses, but as time passed, people had lesser time to spear so they shortened the courses bit by bit. 30, 20, 10 days, then 7 and found them to short. This is the reason real vipasanna is always hold in 10 day courses, which i can confirm. Day 7-9 are very important days, because there is your mind very very sensitive. Even the 3 days anapana are a little bit short, but for a beginner enough.
http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~hannah/dharmascience.h
You can google for more
Remember, Vipasanna is not a belive of any kind, its a technique of meditation to observe reallity as it is. You can't learn it through your intellect and you have to belive in nothing. You have to practicate, because it affects your subconsciousness and that is only possible through practice (and a lot of it
Vipasanna is not a relligion, Buddhism is, even when Buddha always said that he doesn't want that people make a religious figure out of him, they have done it. And the worst of all, they forgot the essence: the technique.
I was christian born, but i found the churches somehow interpret the bible very, very strange and not acceptable for me. To much belive in something. I'm happy with agnosticism
Vipasanna is nothing i have to belive in of any kind, and experience to good results every day.
kindly regards
daniel
I like science and scientific view, there is nothing against it in general, but it often leads to a very bounded point of view and this very often in medicin.
:)
You have this and that sympthom, so you have this desease. POINT. Nothing else could it be.
There was a studiy saining this and that, so this is the fact and nothing else. Everybody interessted in biology will discover sooner or later that the hole system is much more complex then some parts and this is where most scientists are looking at. They analyze a tiny part and this must be the reason whatsoever, try to find a fix to reduce the sympthoms and think they found a cure.
It's like sitting in a box and analyzing their walls, yes. This must be the universe and I now know how it works. Then the box breaks up and, ohh. This is the universe but it's just another box.
One of the many examples is dietethics, if not even the worst. Every year another book comes out with complete new values what contains how much energy. Some years ago, cellulose didn't have any energy, now it has. But in fact, nobody even know how much enegery the body needs, how much he processes of what input, how the bowel works exactly and it processes,.... So many questions, but the answers, they are of course, the right ones.
Medicin is another good example. You have this and that sympthom, so you have this disease. Taking this and that alters the body chemical reaction, so the disease is gone. But they not even know how the body controlls his chemical balance exactly, but this doesn't seem to matter. Fixing the illness means fixing the sympthoms, not fixing the origin. And best, if they have to take their medicin daily for the rest of their lives, this makes money.
As I and mostly every other Vipasanna student has discovered, 95% of all deseases are purly psychosomatic. Nobody knows how interaction of mind and body works completly, how subconsciousness affects the body, where it even beginns and how far it goes.
Of course, there are illnesses you can't fix with fixing your mind, and broken arm will medition not heal, but it will heal the impact the break had on your mind. And it always has an inpact on your subconsciousness, everything does and will most probable lead to another illness in the distant future.
It may be hard to belive, because Vipasanna is no doctrine, sect or belive. It's a technique you have to practice. It's also nothing you can quickly do and experience wonders
Vipasanna is a very purly observation meditation, where you will experience realitly as it is and not how you want it to be and through this purify your mind from all the bad impacts your environment had on you.
Real Vipasanna courses are always hold for free, so you have nothing to loose and are open for everyone, because they are no religion whatsoever.
Good courses are organized by the Vipasanna Organization [URL:http://www.dhamma.org], but there are also other organizations that seems more or less good.
To be doubtfull is a good thing and to blindly belive my claims is not good eighter. I can just speak from my experience and from conversations with others and their experience.
;)
:)
:)
Some examples:
The supervisor of the last Vipasanna I took is also the manager of the drug helpdesk in zurich. He told me that they have the best results of all techniques with Vipasanna to prevent backslides from drug addicts (mostly heroin victims).
Also is Vipasanna hold in Prisons in India, New Zealand, Taiwan, Thailand, U.K., and the United States which reduces the backslides more then any other support methode. [URL:http://www.prison.dhamma.org/]
An student of my last course had a strong wheat allergy. I spoke with him on the 10st day and he said that he found the problem that caused this allergy in his memory. I hope, I will see him someday to see if the allergy has finally gone away.
I don't have an good example from me, because I don't have any body problems at all. Maybe I can say that I do not have any muscle tenseness on my neck anymore and no cramps, but the last may be food related.
I think, I have a very scientific view of the world and can assure like many scientists, how have practiced this technique, that it is not superstition or any believe. In fact I'm very suspicious about some philosophic parts of the teachings, but that's completly ok and doesn't harm the meditation technique. Maybe one day when I reach a higher level of enlightenment, I will understand, maybe when i get the first time into nirvana
I really would like to hear from someone with RSI if the illness faded away after a Vipasanna course.
I would be doubtfull if i would have to pay money for a course, but real Vipasanna is always hold for free. You don't have to pay anything. All personal of the course do this in their free time, because they experienced the good results of Vipasanna and want that others can learn this technique. I will go to the local Vipasanna centre for 6 weeks soon to do service there, because I want to give others the chance to learn it. I will not get a cent for it, nor does the teacher or anyone else
I think that should clarify that Vipassana is not about money. The courses exist, because you can't learn it properly at home. There are to much distractions arround you and you would start to distract yourself when you enter one of the hard phases of the meditation. Every purification has it's hard phases where one or the other would whish to stop, but beeing somewhere else, in an environment that supports you helps greatly. Once you reach the first step of enlightenment (Bhanga) , which is normally between the 7st and 10st day of a Vipasanna, you will look laughing back. It's like getting reborn, was at least for me.
Try it out, you have nothing to loose, except some complexes in your mind that bother you thru your subconsiousness
kindly regards
poelzi
;)
:) )
There where many studies from scientists that can confirm this. Vipasanna is nothing you have to belive in and it's not a religion.
It's in fact a very logical and scientific system without blind belives of anything.
The main problem, as I see it, is that vision needs to much "processor power" for our consciousness so that most other sensations must be blocked at lower levels. For example, most people can't feel their inwards (This does not mean you don't feel anything there, you are just not attentivly enough). While observing the body as it is, you will start discover the burried burdens of your past that manifests in pain in your body. This is something every vipasanna student experiences. I personally know many people with chronic pain that came back without.
You will become very balanced and peacefull with yourself, your environment and after some time even your telepathic abilities will show up (but thats another chapter
I for example would need 8-9 hours sleep to be well rested, with vipasanna I sleep arround 4-5 hours, which gives me even with my minimum 2 hours vipasanna daily more time as it tooks.
As a new student, you are not even allowed to donate money for a vipasanna course, only after one 10 day course you are allowed and when you think you have profited from it. Nobody gets any money from it, it's a purly unselfish organization.
kindly regards
poelzi
I strongly belive RSI is just another mental illness that manifests in a body disease.
The vipasanna organization http://www.dhamma.org/ organizes free courses arround the world. I'm an old student pracicating since 2 years and can really recommend this meditation for nearly everyone. You will benefit greatly and I guess RSI will also fade away.
And i never could compiler my own kernel to make it best fit for my computer either.
Your dist should provide the headers and build system to compiler the module without any problems.
Sorry, but you are wrong here. Reiser4 is atomic and you can pack as many operations into one transaction as you like, you just have to use the reiser4 system call. This is, because there is no standard system call for atomic filesystem transactions. Modern filesystems are databases, build to store files and query them trough filenames, reiser4 is the first filesystem where search path can be done through plugins, therefore you can index everything you want.
the first working linux driver with power management
Isotope batteries produce power for 12-50 years constant. But with the multi billion market of our battery industion, would be destroyed by such a device.
8 8- 94/1260.html
http://discuss.foresight.org/critmail/sci_nano.
http://www.google.com/search?q=isotope+battery
When you find the resonance frequence of water, it will simple fall into his parts. Everything has a resonace frequence, why should only heavy material has it.
t m
;)
My own experiments are not build currently
See:
http://www.nuenergy.org/
Another example is the bio gas generator:
http://jlnlabs.imars.com/bingofuel/html/bfr10.h
Stanley Meyer for example was poisend for his water car. The hacker Thron was killed for his cryptic device,... the list is endless.
Do you realy think, people who earns billions with black oil would allow you sell a car/machine/... that will destroy their imperium. Don't be naive. Not even the state would you allow this - or do you think they will get money with water taxes ?
"Ohh officer, i'm sure i used special taxed car-water for this vehice"
poelzi
I began recently to work on high frequency eletrolyse and magnetic electrolyse which hase a much better efficacy.
t m
The Energie Problem is solved decades befor, but open your eys - Nobody can sell it without risking his life.
For example:
http://www.cheniere.org/books/excalibur/moray.h
From "FUEL FROM WATER, Energy Independence with Hydrogen" Author Michael A.Peavey Publisher Merit, Inc., P.O. Box 694 Louisville, KY 40205 Library of Congress Number 88-188956 ISBN 0-945516-04-5 Page 22.
" The smallest amount of energy needed to electrolyse one mole of water is 65.3 Wh at 25 degrees Celcius (77 degress F). When the Hydrogen and Oxygen are recombined into water during combustion 79.3 Wh of energy is released. 14 Wh more energy is released in burning Hydrogen and Oxygen than is required to split water. This excess must be absorbed from the surrounding media(environment) in the form of heat during electolysis." [...] "At 25 degrees celcius, for voltages of 1.23 to 1.47 V, the electrolysis reaction ABSORBS HEAT. At over 1.47 V at 25 degrees celcius, the reaction gives off heat."
I'm working on a cheaper and better solution at the moment.
- Go to ebay and buy an old, working pentium notebook with a tft (normaly these are fanless)
- Add a network pcmcia card when it has non ethernet interface.
- Make it network bootable (if your NC didn't support it, let the harddisk in them (Just for the kernel. After the nfs-root is started you can shutdown the HD))
- If you didn't like the design, add the notebook parts in a better chassis. I had a cassette recorder which i never used. I removed the innards, put the notebook in them, add a nice plexi glass front, connected the tape buttons to a additional keyboard controller and build a lcd dot matrix panel behind them. The original keyboard is on top of the interface.
The lcd displays the current song...
In the big tft a playlist browser and nicer player will be located and is browsable by a remote controll, the tape buttons, the keyboard and a trackball.
The Software on the notebook will be a mozilla xul application that connects to a daemon written in python on the server. The daemon is customizable and controlles here a xmms player in a xvncserver.
If you like, you can run the audio-player on the notebook, but i prefer the server, because i can controll xmms from every pc and can power-off the jukebox interface.
The software and project is not finished yet, but will published when the first version is finished. Mail me if you are interested.