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So Humbling

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:10:39 +0000

Last night I took the opportunity to watch the meteor shower. It was a very cool experience, something that I will definitely do again next time. Being under the bright starry sky, watching rocks burn up as they travel through the Earth’s atmosphere just reminded me how tiny and insignificant humans are in the grand scheme of things. How arrogant it is to think that all that was ‘created’ for us to enjoy?! We are such a tiny spec of existence that the Universe wouldn’t even know if we were gone.

Trying to picture all that space, those astronomically huge distances, and how most of it is emptiness gives my brain a cramp. It’s not easy to imagine infinity. I can see how people develop fascination with the sky. It is so beautiful and so surreal that it is highly intoxicating. And today, most people will never experience this. People clump together in cities that are full of bright lights that make it impossible to see the sky at its full glory. And let’s be honest, how many of us leave our cities far enough to escape the lights of the civilization? Very few do it on the regular basis. Most hardly leave at all.

Until Monday,

Understanding The 11 Dimensions

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:19:28 +0000

There is this really neat video on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q_GQqUg6Ts

that explains the 11 dimensions. It took me quite a few viewings to somewhat understand what the heck they are talking about, but to this day I don’t quite get it. In either case the video is quite interesting!

For those of you wondering why I am talking about the 11 dimensions while the video title is about understanding the 10th dimension, it’s because dimensions start at 0, being a point. So 11 dimensions go from 0 to 10.

Enjoy the brain cramp!

Until next time,

Yoga

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:22:31 +0000

Keeping with the spiritual theme of the week, I’d like to go into the weekend with a brief talk about yoga. Much like with meditation, there are numerous different yoga practices, with postures ranging from light and easy ones, to very advanced ones where I wonder how people can bend that way. I personally do yoga pretty much every day. On some days I go through a lengthy yoga program, thought on the days where I do other forms of exercise, like a gym workout, I simply start my day with ’sun salutations’ to stretch out and get my body moving.

I personally enjoy more challenging yoga, where I feel like my body is getting a nice workout and a good stretch. However there are huge benefits to just doing some yoga stretches that don’t get your heart rate up that much. It’s nice that there is variety for everyone – you can always find what you are looking for.

And if you didn’t know that, yoga can be a meditative practice as well. Like with many forms of physical exercise, when you in the middle of it, it’s easier to stay in the present moment and focus on what you are doing, which is one form of meditation.

Until Monday,

Group Meditation

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:46:49 +0000

For quite a long time I have considered mediation a very private practice and would always do it in the peace and quiet of my home. As time passed, I have head a few interesting things about the power of meditating in groups, so I decided to try it out. People experience different things, but I can only speak for myself when I talk about the ways that the experience of a group meditation is different from the one done in solitude. There are two main differences that I find.

The first difference that stands out is how much easier it is to meditate for longer periods when I am in a group. It is like you feed off the energy of other people. By myself, 20 minutes is roughly the longest time I can meditate for. In a group, however, 40 minutes passes by very quickly and almost unnoticeably. That aspect of it is very neat.

The second difference is that it can be more distracting in a group. At this point in my meditative practice, noise is a distraction, although more experienced meditators say that they feed off the noise to go deeper. So at home things tend to be a lot quieter, while in a group someone is coughing or moving around or whatnot. That makes it more difficult for me to get into it.

Group meditation is a neat experience, and if you have a chance, try it out. These days I do a mix of the two, so that I can feed off the energy and still enjoy the solitude.

Until next time,