What I have realized after the Vipassana meditation course in Nepal

 In general, almost everything is ego-driven. When you give an answer, or ask yourself a question, or set goals - it’s important to make sure that it is not the ego that is leading you.

Where there are love and compassion, there is no need for understanding.

The psyche, as well as the body has "muscles": they need to be trained by the will force to be able to be in balance - in a state of "here and now". There is no karma in "here and now".

Hear a beautiful, gentle melody. Now imagine turning on an electric kettle full of water. Do you hear? The bell of melody, the candle of harmony - they ring, they burn, but because of the kettle almost nothing is clear what happens, it is difficult to catch. The teapot is our mind. And it’s full of water - valuing judgments about events in the past and plans for the future.

Being in the world, but not of this world is the spiritual mastery of the "bodhisattva" - "the enlightened one". Life on earth is a time for powerful transformation, for elevation. Look what we came here with from the past. And what we take from here, with us, and who we leave here for our spiritual future.

Any spiritual practice, religion, teaching is aimed at making it a clear rule for you never to judge anyone, never to evaluate anything - neither actions, events, nor even sensations in your body, nor the flow of your thoughts. If your spiritual practice gives you such a basis, then you are on the right path. Practice, religion, prayer - anything: everything is measured by the understanding of absolute love, balance of mind and acceptance of everything.

It is very easy to forget that everything is temporary. When difficulties come, even in the ascent of a mountain that we have chosen ourselves, not that in circumstances unexpected for us (and they are all unexpected to some extent). How easily mind can get into the game, and how funny it is to rip off masks afterwards.

What an amazing world we live in. What an honor to be here. The shower lines up to get here. And someone on the contrary, does not want to, exhausted after past. And we are here today, everyone has the opportunity for transformation, and this is happiness.

To be continued