01. MY THREE POSITIVES.
1. Less work, more rest.
2. It's warm again.
3. The stress management course is helping again.
02. MY THOUGHTS AND DISCOVERIES.
The first principle is about doing no harm. The principle is described in such a way that it can be interpreted in many different ways—everyone finds their own way.
For example, some people stop eating meat, others dairy, any animal products, etc.
To avoid accidentally swallowing an insect, breathe through a cloth. But plants are also living things, so either don't eat them at all, or eat the least developed ones.
The more developed a living creature is, the greater the perceived harm from eating it.
This idea can easily lead to anorexia or suicide by starvation. On the other hand, we ourselves are also living beings. If we starve ourselves to avoid harming others, we harm ourselves.
Here, too, the logic applies that the more evolved being has priority. Feeding a cow grass is fine, but feeding the cow grass is somehow not the same.
Furthermore, we have an immune system that kills every day so that we can live.
You can imagine the human body as a huge community of cells that have rallied together. For the sake of the survival of a large community, can we sacrifice smaller communities?
The other extreme: since we can't avoid causing harm at all, then we don't have to think about whether we're eating a cucumber or a monkey's brain—after all, we're eating someone, right?
Or is there a priority?
Another aspect is guilt. You read that you shouldn't harm someone, but you still want to eat. So the topic becomes taboo; you eat without thinking. You buy beef at the store, and the cow is kind of irrelevant. But then a small child asks what I'm eating, and parents are embarrassed to tell them directly—a sign of self-deception.
If I put it all together, I come up with the following logic: if a person can live a full life (no extreme need) by refusing to consume something or reducing the amount consumed (less harm), then this would be following the first principle, at the current moment, for their current state.
Extreme forms—unconscious consumption or self-harm—would not be following the principle.
03. MY YOGA INSPIRATION FOR THE WEEK.
In the gentle practice of allowing.
04. MY GRATITUDE AND PRAISE.
For knowledge.
05. I WANT TO PRAISE MYSELF.
I conducted a Kriya-based Practical Training (UPZ) for the first time.
06. PERSONAL YOGA PRACTICE FOR A WEEK.*
Hatha, Kriya, Mantra, Pranayama - 6 days a week
07. DIFFICULTIES IN LEARNING.*
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