A spiritual practice is: to be aware of the things you do. How does the hand feel on the mouse which controls the cursor? How is it to read this post? Become aware of your legs, your arms, your whole body. Breathe deeply. You live. Do you sense your vitality? Why are you here, what is now your way?
Do you now drink a little? Enjoy consciously the taste, is the drink warm, hot? Touch the world with all your senses, feel the wealth of impressions surrounding you, touch the goods, press them.
If you experience consciously the world with all senses for a brief moment several times a day, you open yourself to the world, you will become more aware.
8/27/2008
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7/17/2008
How to become aquainted with yourself

Ships, which meet in the fog, may have only a guess of what happens on the other ship. How big was the ship that passed by? What kind of problem might the people there have? Were they happy, sad and why did they meet me in the fog?
How many people met Mr. Einstein, , the well-known scientist, during his life without noticing whom they had seen? I think that happened to many people.
Many people are surprised about their dream interpretations. Surprised, which messages from the unconscious comes to them. They do not know the fears and wishes speaking in the language of their dreams. Do you know yourself?
Learn to know yourself, as long as you have the opportunity to do so.
My Tips for getting yourself to know:
- Set yourself aside together with yourself and spend time with yourself. As a matter of course you let nobody interfere in your conservation or would you admit being disturbed while meeting a loved person?
- Pay attention to ideas and intuitions. Perhaps there is a message included from you.
- Search for similarities between what happens to you and your latent moods.
- Observe your mood. Be vigilant and keep looking for the Unknown. That could be a track to your unknown core.
- Do you have a fixed picture of yourself? Let it go. Fixed images limit, what you can see from yourself.
- Trust yourself and your inner strength. Be tolerant with you and don't rate your inner life. To open yourself would include tolerance and trust, and if you trust and tolerate your unknown inner parts, then they will reward you with hints and messages.
And now have a lot of fun while surfing.
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6/16/2008
Subsequent entry, old seer
"Don't you believe me? ", the man of action crossed his arms in front of the chest. Then he stood up and ran away sulking.
"Let him go", smiled the scholar. "Well, the old seer." He rubbed the chin. "Let us see. There were the old seer and there was a walking apart of people. We should take the words of the man of action with a pinch of salt because he has to maximize an effect. He must produce a drama that carries the respective people away . I think before we deal with the old seer - and we will do that, long and detailed - you should interpret things in relation to you. "
"Let's look at the story once roughly. There are the old seer. This may be my generation, or the generation of the grandfathers. Look at the spiritual darkness. This could mean that the man of action not necessarily think of you as the brightest bulb. He looks into the future and sees that your spiritual dark phase will end in the future and he thinks of the others who are scattered - widely scattered. It is your story. "
Somehow I am disappointed. I do not know quite why. Perhaps because the story of the man actually was not bad. "Then he lied?"
"No, you can not say that. There is a growing number of unconscious men of knowledge, each element in the story of the man of action has occurred. But if you analyze major stories, then there is a simple scholar rule. The scholar must be crystal clear. But how could he be clear if he doesn't know his personal concern? "
I shrugged my shoulders.
"You see? If you read myths, fairy tales, annual reports, watch news or hear them. Question always, what does it mean in relation to me how would it be if it would be my story. So you learn the story of your concern. You feel, where you sense intense feelings , where your mind is not free. Relive them only, and then let it go. Then you're free to approach the questions you go through, then you can have clear ideas. But before you can face the old seer, you must first face yourself."
"And that is a broad field," I sighed.
He nodded. "Yes, yes. Step by step. But look who has come. She has brought you a story"
Brown hair, a friendly smile. Miriam came in and settled in the chair where the man of action had sat.
I nodded to her.
"My story is the water of life"
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6/15/2008
Afterwards the setting of the sail of attention.

I met the scholar. He looked briefly up from his desk and continued his work. I had com without being invited so I had to wait until he had time for me. Finally, he finished his work. He turned to me and asked, "Well Ray, what is on your mind, maybe the sails of attention?"
I nodded. Somehow I was uneasy with the memory of the man of action.
"Ray is difficult to give definitive answers about what is all about the sail of attention. What is clear now, that you performed a pure exercise of attention. Your attention may move, fly, what ever you want. But we could talk for about the attention and that such things are possible, without actual experience all remains only talk and even if the man of action likes to talk ... "
"What do you mean?", the indignant man of action said entering the room.
The scholars pursed his lips. "Nothing more, no more than that you like yourself hear talking from time to time."
"I see", the man of action waved his hand. I thought, you meant I were loquacious. "He smiled at me.
I smiled back. "As I said," the scholar went on. "A maneuver of attention that includes no real flight of the physical body, but the entry point is found for many more maneuvers, which will be practiced and perfected over the years in order to be for a few years .."
"Or decades," the man of action added and smiled like a little boy.
".. thank you, be forgotten." He looked at me expectantly.
"Why forget it, what should be the benefit?"
The man of action shrugged his shoulder. "Who cares?"
The scholars nodded. "Forgetting is a natural reaction of the body. He forgets about this and makes his preparations. If we have full control over the attention, then we should have mastered in advance to control our daily life. You could remember your skills too early, and your life would be in disorder. "
"You could set the sail on the toilet," the man of action said. "Outside, a queue of people, perhaps someone calls the janitor while you set the sails and explore outer space?"
The scholars looked at the man of action with a special kind of curiosity. It was not clear displeasure, not even surprise, more like a professional curiosity, a kind of disturbance. "Now toilet ... .. hmm probably that will not work. I am thinking more of a time of vocational training, in which the memories tumble and destroy your career plans. The skills must fit in in an orderly life and parts of your consciousness are vigilant about it. Memories will flash up always in the right moment and the circumstances are different for every person but the moment of memory will be perfect in each case. "
"If he waits too long with his memories, then the small Ray will be perhaps dead?", the man of action considered.
The scholars nodded. "If you get in mortal danger - however - the skills will be available immediately."
"How about the old seer? Does this story include truth?"
.... to be continued .....
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6/14/2008
Setting the sail of attention VII
"Look what I've got as a cord. This is a special cord Ray."
I looked up to the man of action and had the impression as if the cord sprang from my belly. He pressed it to the dragon and threw the dragon into the abyss. It was as he would have thrown me into the abyss. Than I clang to the flying dragon. I looked back and saw me and the man of action sitting on the rock. Then I flew, and enjoyed the flight. Next to me in front of me and I saw more sails in the sky. Like small fireflies they dazzled in various colors. I was happy.
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6/13/2008
Setting the sail of attention VI
"The sail of attention is a kind of dragon, which is a part of your energy body. This sailing you can let ascend, and it expands your views on the things of life. You have a further perspective, that will help you not to get caught in your everyday feelings. "
Walk upon my soul
Hike to the sky.
See the width of times
See on the pulse of life
See in the flow of power
Just like that
"Come." He stands up and I follow him. We go to a rock from which we can look down into the valley. Even from up here it looks as if my view would fly of the world.
"You could die, if you do what I ask of you."
Now that crap starts again. They always make me nervous with this drivel of death. There is death, here is death. "Is there nothing that we can do without the death."
He shakes his head "Unfortunately not." I am sick and I feel an adamant insistence that my existence on earth will stop. Grief fills me. That is going too fast I think protesting. Then the approaching awareness of death sweeps all the problem of everyday life to the side.
"Very nice Ray and now you will learn to fly."
Dear reader, come back again tomorrow to setting the sail of attention VII. Will Ray really fly or is it all only in his imagination or is the man of action only a wicked rogue?
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6/12/2008
Setting the sail of attention v
The man of action smiles.
"What if the happiness of the people, as the people now understand it were the tyrant of the earth. A species born by earth, kills her children trying to swallow more in a shorter time. Your own happiness is an illusion. Just imagine, the word would not exist, what would you miss? How would you call it when you feel happy? "
"Well-being?"
"Yes, that's true. We humans have the ability to reach well-being, if we are all in line with what surrounds us. If the word man does not exist. What would you be missing?"
"Now there are people physically, I would not have for these a special word."
"Yes, that would be so. Happiness is an inner state of well-being and for the earth devourer this state can only exist if they eat up more from the earth every year. I want more for me. This is the personal happiness, included in the life plan of the Western people, identified as the career success and the growth of their own possessions. This kind of happiness search, holds your attention sail on the ground. The dragon of attention can not ascend. It is therefore important that you review your understanding of happiness. Do you want wealth without limits, be a worm, which creeps into the earth and earth and feeds as much as he can get. But when you are a man of knowledge, then go and set your sail of attention and experience the spherical luck. "
"But finally the man of knowledge will land and must eat again."
"Yes, that's true. It's just about the accumulation for the accumulation's sake. A man of knowledge may participate in life, drive a car, love women, he may live in beautiful homes and more. But not because of possession, but because of the experience. Feel me. "
An intense curiosity for experience floods my solar plexus.
"This is the good fortune and wealth that you should collect this earth."
"OK, but what is this ominously sail of attention?"
His eyes light up. I will tell you .....
Dear reader, come back again tomorrow to the setting of the sail of attention VI
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6/11/2008
Setting the sail of attention IV
"So the old seer concentrated on the the preservation of knowledge. They decided, as far as possible to disperse. Each seer took his group and lead them away. They knew that someday the reason for the Dispersal would no longer be recalled and agreed that they had to walk as far apart as possible. On the hike they devised new ways to support the unconscious men of knowledge. "
"Later on, the people overthrew the old gods, they were no longer part of a whole, they now wanted to be designer and owner of the soil and made a possession out of earth, they made themselves property being a part the earth. The age of darkness came with war and bloodshed and darkness pushed the warmth out of the hearts of the people of power. Since that time the number of unconscious men of knowledge grows and the proportion of women among them is far greater than that of men, because men are less capable of getting rid of their energy exhausting habits. "
"And now to the question of how the unconscious men of knowledge can be recognized. Review their umbilical area. Unconscious men of knowledge have a knowing navel. These people are driven from their belly and their belly knows what he is doing. Thees bellies have preserved the knowledge of the old gods and lead their people safely through the darkness. If you look at their heads, then you will see that the head is in complete ignorance of his navel lives. If you meet such a man, then help him to collect energy. He needs energy to train more unconscious men of knowledge. He needs it to prepare the conflagration. OK? "
"I will convince me, 'I said. "How is that now with the setting the sail of attention."
"Ray one moment, it isn't that simple. We still need to remove another mistake."
"And?"
"The belief in one's own luck."
"Pardon?"
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6/10/2008
Setting the sail of attention III
Ray: "Well, I admit. I haven't seen it yet from that point of view.
But what secret do the people have around us, please do not make it so exciting. "
The man of action smiles knowingly. "My body knows that there are around me a lot of sleeping humans of knowledge. Hundreds of thousands of people bear in their bodies the knowledge and experience of millennium with them. I feel it and feel it with every breath I draw. But the knowledge is of no use for them, because they have no language for it. The poets have thousands of years wrestled with the language to trigger the conflagration predicted thousands of years ago. "
"An conflagration, a prophecy - spectacular. And I do not know whether I believe all this."
"You do not have to believe it. Believe me, that the faith is overestimated. I think out of doing me a favour please do not believe in anything, but you should always convince yourself first. Conviction puts you in the situation to take responsibility for your knowledge. " He knocks on the dragon.
"If we set your sail of attention today jointly, then you will know, then you do not need to ask whether it is true or not."
"But back to the old prophecy. Thousands of years ago the people were more familiar with their forces inside than today. Thee people asked for the meaning of life. Will we continue a lifetime of walking on earth, will we even thousands of years to come do so. The people were restless and demanded answers. Thus the best of them began, the seer to extend their skills for looking in the future. The question of the future employed them for about three centuries, during which the Seer expanded their sight from millennium to millennium. They saw the Patriarchate, saw the war, were shocked and they were far beyond our present time too. "
"They saw the area fire. After a long-lasting millennium of spiritual darkness the knowledge came back to the people in everyday life. In hundreds of thousands the knowledge awakened in a short time and they know about each other. They start leading humanity from the darkness and create the new form of living in harmony with the life forms. The old seers saw that man suppressed the knowledge that nevertheless it continued to accumulate and will wake up one day and so today there is the contradictory situation that we face Saints who are not aware of their knowledge. "
"These people give their knowledge to others, again without being aware of it and without allowing the receiving to get aware of it. However, this spreading is limited. Someone who wants to pass on his knowledge needs energy and energy is not available unlimited in our spiritually dark millennium. Thus the spreading from the knowledge takes place slowly and we are still far away from the conflagration. "
"How convenient?" I say ironically.
He nods, "remain skeptical, I was too, so you must not think of yourself as being witted. Being witted would be to understand this knowledge. The logical consequence is if we meet in everyday life an unconscious man of knowledge we should help these people gathering energy, to support that they will eventually release mankind from the darkness. So you have to learn to recognize them in order to help them. "
He looks at me again, expectantly.
"But how do I recognize the unconscious man of knowledge and who were the old seer and how the story went further back then?"
Dear reader, come back again tomorrow to hear about Setting the sail of attention IV
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6/09/2008
Setting the sail of attention II

"Let us talk about your first mistake Ray. We men of action do not act only. We do everything. We can be effective scholars, we find ways, we operate behind the scenes, all that we can do. The action we focus on, which is the characteristic of the man of action mind is a matter of the second attention. If I execute a manoeuvres of the attention in the second attention, then I see myself. With my whole body I am involved in something that does not exist in the first attention. There is a one to one relationship between body feeling in everyday life and experience of knowledge. A man of action remembers physically, so his actions becomes special. He knows what he has to do and in a second Step he has to explain it to others why he did the things the way he has done them - this is sometimes not so easy, because there is not always for each knowledge and every nuance of the body feeling a word. "
He looks at me in silence.
"And what is my mistake?"
While I ask him, he moves in the lips sync with my question.
"The mistake is easy explained. People can gather knowledge without being aware of it it in their daily awareness. It may be that they become aware of this only when they die and their energy prepares for the last trip, put in flowery words. Knowledge is always physically and not everyone who can put his knowledge immediately in overblown words and put it in glued pulp is a man of knowledge. You know, for example, already much more than you know that you know it, because you do not trust your body and the people around us, keep a secret in their bodies, that I'm going to explain if I'll explain your second mistake. But did you have the former mentioned mistake about men of action? "
"The fact that they bear their knowledge with them physically, but do not always have immediately words for it?"
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6/08/2008
Setting the sail of attention
I visited the man of action. He sat in front of his house and he just worked on a dragon, which he had laid on his knees.
He didn't look at me, when I sat down near him, but talked to me while he worked concentrated on the dragon.
"Hello Ray, there you are, sit down. Today, we will talk about the sail of attention. But before we do that, I must explain a few mistakes you make. Mistakes, that hold you in a kind of Babylonian captivity. "
"Mistakes", how would you know?. We still have not talked with each other as much or spent as long a time together that you already could know what my mistakes are? "
"So it will work." He raised the dragon and smiled in satisfaction. He moved him in front of his head back and forth to test his flight characteristics. "Yes, it will work."
He put the dragon with a careful movement on the ground.
"But we know each other for thousands of years. Times have you been here and I sat where you have set yourself on the ground. Another time it was vice versa as it is now. So I know your mistakes as you will know mine when I will come to you. These are the types in us, the characters. Types in us, they prevent us from setting the sail of attention and bringing us the freedom to fly. "
"I was thousands of years ago already here?", I ask incredulously.
"Now, take it with a pinch of salt. Someone from your type was here and met a man of action and reversed a man of action was here and met someone from your type. Is it clear now?"
I nod. The idea to participate in a conversation that took place repeatedly for thousands of years repeatedly in the same manner fascinated me. What might it be, being so important that it was discussed again and again?
Dear reader, come back tomorrow find out the meaning of the setting of the sail of attention II and what mistakes do Ray believe in?
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6/06/2008
Blind

There is a hole in the perception, it is always there - a kind of blind spot. You can learn about this spot in a group of learners when different people perform the same exercises.
The blind spot has nothing to do with preferences, the characters or intentions. It restricts the field of view of everyone and - in most cases - we are not conscious of it. The blind spot is the reason why people need each other. Two people see more than one, because they have in common only a relatively small blind spot. Three people are better than two, because their common blind spot is even smaller, because the blind spots of the same people are never the same, it is more like they overlap.
For example, a seer, we call him Nostradamus, sees the demise of the world. He experiences a vivid vision of everything falling to pieces and the underlying feelings that the vision in it triggers is lifelike. He has no doubt that the world will perish just as he has seen it.
The blind spot may be that Nostradamus has seen his own death. His world is ending and his soul fears and delivers him to the canvas of a willing perception a horror scenario. A second seer can examine the attention if it has been wholly or partially tarnished by the blind spot.
Power people think that if they have developed their skills, they no longer need other. Their blind spot is being blind, against the blind being. To overturn it, even if others do warn.
Be among foreign eyes, which the power of love carry to you. One should be the other eye and nobody should blame a friend, who delivers the messages from the blind spot.
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5/20/2008
Artists are temporarily enlightened

Sometimes, when I stood in the Louvre and I viewed in astonishment the colors of medieval paintings, because the colors were so intense, as if they were just painted. I had the feeling that the painter touched me through the centuries.
I firmly believe that the artist when (s)he creates a work - be it a poem, be it a sculpture or a picture or anything else, these artists express their the inner flame and they freeze their contact with the divine spark in their work. Artists are specific enlightened people, who will fall after the creation from the sky and will continue life with all their weaknesses. Artists jump with power and strength beyond the border, sweat and work to pull something over to us and the work remains and smiles at us, igniting the spark in our interior.
I want to thank you - artists. Thanks
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4/11/2008
Cha Cha
"Cha, cha. Tadida dap dap because dap." I see someone very talented dance. I come closer to the danceer butn a hand seizes and holds me back. Before my eyes the Cha Cha Dancer transforms in something dark I do not unerstand.
"One more time saved in the last moment." The man of action wipes with an imaginary handkerchief the sweat from his forehead. In dreams you need restraint, given that we wander at the limits of the second attention, as far as we are doing.
"What is it?", I ask. "It seems to have rhythm and this rhythm seems to be like a Cha Cha rhythm."
"In fact, it lives here. A living creature of dreams."
"Could I meet this black thing if am awake?"
"You mean, whether it has outside the dreams a real body? Let us look. We will just see where the trail will lead, if we search for him, her or it that dreams. Come on."
We glide for a while. Controlled gliding through a dark brown level, and finally, we arrive at a reptile of the size of a sausage dog. He looks at me and smiles maliciously. "Well here you have your dreamer."
I look incredulously on the lizard and something tells me that he is kidding me. He loves to kid me. When I want to ask him why he is so fond of kidding me the Cha Cha dancer rushes through the air. I remember that it is in truth something black. It is falling down on the black lizard form and disappears inside. For a brief moment, I feel as if had beamed shortly from within the lizard, like someone would have opened a door to a lighted house and slammed again.
I dislike it here. It is difficult because things have never been so, as I know them. The lizard opens one eye. The eye has a strange hypnotic power. I take my view off her and she toddles on.
"So, now you know them. Why is this level dark brown?"
I shrug my shoulders, but then I realize it. Thousands of lizards are around here. And every now and again one opens his eye.
"If you wander here, and you are alone, then everything is fine, as long as you do not look these lizards in the eye. They can hold yourself, over weeks and months."
"Do you mean it honestly?"
He smiles maliciously. I hate it when he does that.
"Of course I mean that honestly. Come on, let's have a look."
We slide back slowly through the level and finally see a human dream-body before a lizard. He no longer moves, stands still.
I am trying to understand what is going on. Then i get it. The lizards are curious. They try to understand the hikers in their level and some of them seem to have learned to love Cha Cha too.
He whispers into my ear. "The dreamer slows to the speed of the lizards. For him, it seems only a moment to be, but there are very long hours and a person should not be that long dream of his body separated."
"Can you call your dream body back if he hangs somewhere?"
"Sure."
"And what about that?" I asked impatiently.
"Do not know, I have never done. Come. Well, here it is boring." And we glide off to an uncertain new dream.
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12/20/2007
What is the Second Attention?
Let us follow a conversation between master and his student.
"The second attention, that is a simple and difficult question at the same time. Let me put it in an easy way. During his lifetime, if a person didn't perceive anything that he could not explain, he has spent his whole life in the first attention. One World, which is created by the mind, and in which everything can be explained. "
"The second attention is a world in which we can not explain anything, when we access the second attention we leave our reason at the hat rack in the entrance."
"Does that mean one is a loony in the second attention?"
"No, it means that for the perception of the second attention you don't need your reason. If, for example, you dream, you touch things in your dreams, or have a physical sensation in the dream or smell and taste things, then you are amidst the second attention. Since the reason tells you that it is not possible to touch things in a dream, you have to leave the reason behind in order to enter the second attention. "
"Why should we use the second attention. What is it good for? "
"Now, the second attention is greater, huger than the everyday world. You can find all things of the everyday world in the second attention, so far it is not better, but by the lack of reason, you can do more things that would be impossible in everyday life. "
"Yes, what?"
"You can cure diseases, for example, by acting upon on the ill part of the body, something you can only do in the second attention. Some people fall ill because their soul suffered from bad experiences. You can't see this injury in the everyday world. But you can see it in the second attention and feel and heal, and then the person recovers in everyday day life. "
"Can I cure myself if I daydreams, and I imagine that I put a hand on myself?"
"Well, the daydream is a part of the first attention, but already it is on the border to the second attention. For this, we must understand how the connection between the two attentions looks like. The second attention has its own time. If you observe carefully your perception, then you find in it holes, like some kind of breaks in the performance. These breaks are the gateway to the second attention. You switch the attention in such a break to the second attention and change the time. "
"Could I disappear in such a break for years in the second attention?"
"Yes and no. The question is only useful when time continued. But it doesn't exist. That is the reason why some people, for example, know things from the future. If there is a future event, which already takes shape, then this event exists in the first and second attention but through the holes in the time, all information is available. Some people who have learned to perceive the breaks, can draw such information. Only that for the future there is no certainty, because the future to happen yet could change in detail, even if the rough shape is fixed. "
"This is like being off one's trolley."
"Well, if you think so. But it is not a matter to understand this, it is a matter to experience. Would you not like to get rid of a disease that is soul pain. Or wander through a world that is richer and greater than your everyday life. "
"Who knows what could happen to me?"
"Well, you could give it a try, starting to collect energy for the second attention to perceive."
"And how?"
"It's simple. Imagine that your daily life would be a dream. Soon your body remembers the situations where he was in dreams, and everything was tangible. "
"That's all?"
"There are a thousand ways, looking for the holes in the perception. Ask yourself what the trees dream you face while wandering in the forest. It does not matter what you do and when you do it. The fact that you voluntarily begin your way, that's all that counts. "
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