Dragallur

Just today I got back my German exam, of course we did not have so much time, 60 minutes. I was proud of my page and half (though I wrote basically whole page) and then the teacher was like: "Well this part could have been longer.. ". (I got 4 from the text and 5 from grammar ) That reminds me how in Czech it is much more common for people to have 1 in exam (but apparently you dont have have a problem to get full points here too). I guess its because you need to get less points in Czech (85% to get 1) and also there is often no oral participation with which you could balance it. Only the worst in class have 4 or 5 but here its "completely" normal. Also art, music and sports are not really subjects, we do not write usually any exams and just get 1 at the end of the year .

Are you sure? I find it quite crazy how here in Germany people write so much in their tests. In Czech its more about knowing terms or writing essay with like 300 words.. and then you write 14 pages!!!

@Loreena The number says how many times in a row she did it, when she breaks it the number goes back to zero.

@PetarKa Well you can do it after you actually watch the video and that will count.

@jjer94 Wow, what you shared here!.. Good luck jjer

@egoeimai Yes you are right that was more of a short term solution and those are only short termed, these things take a long time to solve and are complicated. From my view the problem is so big because the girl is in his class, I have been through something similar and it really fucks you up when you see the person everyday.. aka can not forget about her.

@Meretagh I do not really have a an idea for short term solution.. but from my experience after few months of self-inquiry my whole approach to girls and other attachments completely changed, every day life became so relaxed and some things stopped to matter so much. I have no idea if this would work for you too since I do not know how much in love you are with her. Also you could try to meet some new people, new girls so that your attention would diverge a bit and you would maybe find out that this person was not actually what you wanted and needed. Good luck Meretagh

219th day: Challenge (86 days) So I started... couple times a day a just hang down and stretch a bit and then do it for a longer and actually try to make it better. I will start to do some more exercises to help me. All the things I want to achieve are kind of in the same direction except the side splits.. we will see how it goes. Hmm Today I realised how easy it is to not make a big mistakes, let me clear it out: Often I have the urge to do something but I know that I should not do it because it does not stand with my values and so on, people call it egoic behavior . Often there arises huge discussion in my head with lot of arguments but the whole issue is always simple, if I do something good than the discussion wont arise.. I simply have to stop doing the things when I start to create discussions and arguments, its so simple yet so hard to execute it. Dragallur

@Dingus The reason why I said that the internet discussion was impressively good was the way that the people approached the problem. For example: Then I think they had some quite good points, for example the authors apparently do not even try to say that it is valid which sounds kind of weird. They very rightly say that the content is not falsifiable, that does not say that it is untrue but the way some things are shallowly described, simply why such open ended answers? The thing is that what Leo calls "false skepticism" is not in any way false, it is just other way approaching a problem, there is not true or false skepticism and no right form, "true skepticism" should be applied at some situation but not in other simply because of efficiency.. there is so much stuff on the internet that is making some kind of claims that you can not test through first hand experience everything, then you need to use critical thinking and get rid of most of it even if you sacrificed something that would be true, then you have time to dive deep into something that might seem questionable to people but there are individuals all around the world having similar kind of experience, like enlightenment for example.

Oh, my hopes

@PetarKa Though YouTube is quite good in filtering spam I think so the question is if it really works.

@JKG Can you do any of the exercises?

217th day: Thoughts So I am back in school again. Somehow I quickly tend to forget about things that were just weeks back. Not that I can not visualize them it is just this weird feeling as if they did not existed until the moment I see them again (my family is a good example). I got 43/45 points in physics, I was proud of myself though yes, the stuff was not hard. The only mistakes I made was that I calculated frequency (which I like way more ) instead of time and then I forgot to calculate with 4 springs on BMX bike and two wheels on a bike in another problem, dumb mistakes. In biology which was of course much harder for me I got 23/30 still somehow I was between the best people which I liked a lot (the word ego is illegal). I have a plan (that I wont tell anybody in Czech) to really try hard math and physics next year. I want to have 100% in both subjects, in math it is easier because of the teacher but at the same time in physics at least you can get extra points. It totally next level plan and I have no idea how much I will have to work for other subjects.. I have only about 15 hours left of self-inquiry until my average is 1 hour every day since the time I started, its a nice milestone. 90 day challenge (88 days) When I was on yoga the last time we did some cool exercises and I decided to challenge myself and in the next 90 days try to achieve following things: When I stand I should be able to touch with my whole palms floor and press head on knees with legs straight. Knee touch with head when I sit down too. Spagat (german word!) (both sides) Spagat but the other way, you stand and move your legs to right and left instead of forwards and backwards. (both sides) Again I have no idea how hard it will be but I thought it would be cool if I concentrated on some exercises like that, I do other in the mean time of course. I have made a video of myself doing all the exercises so that I can compare it in the future. Dragallur

Very nice thanks for meditating with me.

Exactly I also got it from forum.. I liked how it all happened just in the room basically and it was all about story telling, and then how in the end he stepped back when he realised that the people are not ready for it (ready for the truth? )

@Ritu External factors definitely do have an effect, there is no coincidence that most people here are from Western developed world and probably none from Niger. But external factors are not reason to not take responsibility and not do you best in whatever you are working on. Though @hinawashi and @Prabhaker have a good advice

I found this impressively good discussion on sceptic forum about Ra material: http://www.skepticforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=25205

Yes I will also join. @Sevi Yes I made a group on the app Insight Timer called Actualized Group Meditation and you can join by creating account on the app and then simply searching for the group, I do not need to confirm it so you will be in immediately.

@rakuul Its nice that somebody makes some criticism of Leo, but this video does not make sense so far as I have watched (15 min). He is trying to make fun of every single thing that Leo says and actually is not making any arguments against what is in the video. This guy is sad.

@Sevi Yes I did I only started few minutes later.

I can relate this was very nice. I noticed some weird behavior when doing selfinquiry, hope I wont be howling like wolf soon I am quite likely going again tommorow!

@Barna Ok i am going both probably and definitely today

Anybody meditation this weekend?

@pluto you mean getting presents everyday? Sounds great to me!

209th day: Holidays Well.. I have finished my work on Oscar Wilde. Now I will just have to review it and then send it to my teacher in Czech! It was pretty fun to do, 16 pages of text or so. Today I used integration to solve a problem for the first time. I derived the formula for area of ellipse, it felt so good when I got the answer! Last week when other people did meditation together I joined with self-inquiry and did it for longest time ever.. 140 minutes. It was great and I would go longer time if I was not so tired. Otherwise I have enhanced by SDS a bit since the quality was declining over past weeks. The holidays are really great option to get these things again in shape. Dragallur