"Herr Merz, Sie haben die Botschaft nicht verstanden, die Ihnen die Wähler in Sachsen-Anhalt am vergangenen Sonntag geschickt haben. Das ist nicht weiter relevant, denn Ihre Zeit ist ohnehin abgelaufen. Die Bürger wollen den Politikwechsel, und sie werden ihn bekommen."
☎️ De president Vladimir Vladimirovitsj Poetin richt zich tot de Duitsers, in het bijzonder tot Friedrich Merz 🇩🇪, geschokt door de resultaten behaald door de AfD.
« Wij willen jullie niet aanvallen! Waarom zouden we dat doen? Die tijd is al lang voorbij! Wie nog bij zijn volle verstand is en kan nadenken, begrijpt dat.
1) Jullie hebben al een nationale schuld van 2.500 miljard euro, en geen enkele serieuze econoom weet hoe jullie die van plan zijn terug te betalen.
(Alice Weidel verklaart haar land failliet.)
En nu willen jullie nog eens 1.000 miljard lenen om je tegen ons te bewapenen.
2) Jullie land wemelt van de miljoenen migranten die jullie 50 miljard euro per jaar kosten.
3) Een aanzienlijk deel van jullie bevolking is zo in de war dat het gelooft dat het het klimaat kan beïnvloeden door te fietsen en insecten te eten.
4) Jullie onderwijssysteem was ooit een voorbeeld. Tegenwoordig is er in veel klaslokalen vrijwel geen onderwijs meer
omdat bijna niemand Duits spreekt.
5) Jullie infrastructuur valt in verval en jullie kunnen het tempo van de reparaties niet bijhouden.
6) Jullie spoorwegen waren ooit een bron van trots voor de hele wereld. Tegenwoordig rijden jullie treinen als in India.
7) Wij hebben jullie beroemde ingenieurs niet nodig. Tijdens de sancties hebben we geleerd dat we zonder kunnen. Maar als we er uiteindelijk toch een nodig zouden hebben, zouden we naar China kijken. Daar zijn ze niet alleen goedkoper, maar
ook beter.
8) Jullie bezitten geen grondstoffen of energiebronnen. Dus waarom zouden we jullie land moeten veroveren?
Om problemen op te lossen die we anders niet eens zouden hebben?
Laten we realistisch zijn: zelfs als jullie ons smeekten, als jullie capituleerden en de witte vlag hijsden, zouden we toch niet komen! »
I think the highest form of spirituality is simply learning how to live your life. Not escaping into altered states, collecting initiations, memorizing scriptures, or trying to become something other than what you already are. All of those things do have their place along the way, but eventually they have to lead you back here. Back to making breakfast, taking care of your body, doing your work, loving the people around you, and paying attention to what is directly in front of you. The point of the path isn’t to take you out of life, it’s to teach you how to be completely inside it.
The point of practice isn’t to spend your entire life practicing. It’s to become so completely present that the division between practice and life disappears. You stop looking for the sacred somewhere else because you realize there is nowhere else for it to be. Washing dishes is it. Training is it. Sitting quietly with someone you love is it. Growing old is it. Even boredom, grief, and uncertainty are part of it. Eventually you put down all the methods and explanations and simply participate in your own existence. The highest teaching is living ordinary life completely.
Warning: Once you see this monk's 3-minute demonstration on "how to stop thinking," you can't unsee it.
Ajahn Brahm says:
"Your mind never actually stops. It just fills every gap you fail to notice."
His demonstration works because he exploits something neuroscience has quietly confirmed for years that "the thinking mind cannot generate thought and pay full attention at the same time."
Attention and cognition compete for the same neural real estate. When one runs at full volume, the other goes quiet.
Most people never experience mental silence because they've never once given attention *anything* to fully occupy it with.
What Brahm does in those 3 minutes is deceptively simple.
He asks you to listen to the *gaps between his words*.
The silence between syllables. The pause between sentences. And the moment you shift your attention to those gaps, your internal narrator goes quiet.
The reason is you directed your awareness with such precision that it fully engaged your attention and left no room for extra commentary.
Meditation traditions have circled this insight for 2,500 years.
The Pali term for mental chatter is *prapañca.*
Transaltion: Conceptual proliferation.
One thought spawns another, which spawns three more, and within seconds you're rehearsing an argument from 2014.
Brahm's technique interrupts the mechanism at its source. You cannot proliferate thought while genuinely tracking silence, because silence has no content for the mind to grab onto and multiply.
This is why most meditation instruction fails people. They're told to "clear the mind," which is like being told not to think of a polar bear. The very act of trying activates the machinery it's supposed to silence. Brahm inverts the entire approach.
Instead of asking you to stop, he asks to divert your attention somewhere so refined to rest that stopping happens on its own, as a side effect.
There's a deeper reason this demonstration hits so hard.
Modern life has trained our nervous systems to treat silence as a threat that must be filled with a podcast, a scroll, a snack, a plan.
We've forgotten that silence is the medium consciousness actually rests in. Sound is the interruption. It's not the other way around.
Once you experience even 5 seconds of genuine internal quiet, your relationship with your own thoughts permanently shifts. You stop believing every mental voice is *you*. You start noticing there's a witness underneath the chatter that was never anxious to begin with.
Please throw in your thoughts on this.