Bit by the rock climbing bug imagine a hammock tent perched high up a tree or some quiet niche on a cliff? Maybe this kid is the inspitrtion, he has spent the last 18 months outdoors…..
Inspired by countless such stories, maybe a new movement in camping hammocks and rain fly’s is next, to happen!
A 12 hour stationary bird watch, logged on ebird portal, from 6.00 PM 8/4/20 to 6.00 AM 8/5/20. Used a hammock and sleeping bag to stay warm, and a rain fly to stay dry. My nest!, so we bipeds, avians and us have nests in common!
Just like bird nests, my eagle nest hammock was snug and confortable all night and really light weight.
I tried the ultralight camping approach, a hammock, with or without insect netting, a rain fly in case it rains and a sleeping bag for warmth, and the result was a great night of sleep. I think this is a preffered way of camping, up in the canopy or between trees, maybe a snooze on a roof top too is possible, maybe a way to market green roofs and an escape from the cubicle universe, to the tree tent?
Christology, talks about an inner kingdom of God. Could you have visited this kingdom? of light? everytime I pass the conduit of light, a sacred way of the light workers in Maranatha, I miss that turn, neither left nor right, to light , to breath cessation Bardo, a practice common to Buddhism, to avoid the Tibetan-Chinese conflict on conscious dying, I went the eight fold path way, walking with the Sakhyamuni , beyond breath cessation is the prana of the vedic literature. Prana flows from both Yoga and Bhog, the food sheath, that the divine mother provides, can this be priced? it cannot and generations of business men have sunk from the pricing models!
One often hears false images of the inner kingdom, with people breathing eating and drinking in the kingdom of God, while one transcends or ascends in breath cessation, only in pure prana, a need to purify this prana is essential! All breathing stops in an ascendance, and so does the need to eat or drink, hence fasting is the first step to self purification and the transition to pranic living in mindful breathing!
Pure prana is more than Qi, and flows in water, Neptunist water and Sunlight, the Yellow Sun, a star in itself, called “raghuvamsh” or the path of ancestors, of Lord Rama, the opposite of flat earth, stellar earth is Ram!
prana or energy from water and sunlight is thus amenable to pranic healing and living, with mindfulness, it provides energy, to walk and live in higher action! The principles of fasting in all spiritualities.
I practiced this on 21st March 2020, with a hike to Lebanon Hills , from Neighborhood House.
Adding a comment on 8/5/20, is the latest fad from Silicon Valley, Dopamine Fasting, a form of water fasting common to all religions, with an added abstenience from pleasure- sex, electronics and media, apparently Dopamine is linked to pleasure and this hits the reset in your mind.
Starting at Concord Exchange on concord rd, after a bus ride from neighborhood house, a distance of 8.8 + 5.5 miles, a total of 14.3 miles. About 15 miles of continuous mindful walking, ending at Easter!, maybe we need more easter eggs in dialog flow and alexa?
“Easter eggs are hidden features or messages, inside jokes, and cultural references inserted into media. They are often well hidden, so that users find it gratifying when they discover them, helping form bonds between their creators and finders. Google’s employees are encouraged to use 20% of their time for projects of personal interest, and Easter eggs are sometimes created during this. Google avoids adding Easter eggs to popular search pages, as they do not want to negatively impact usability.” Wikipedia.
Mindful eating was missed at this walk on Saturday, 21st March!
I only survived on fiber fill, with Soylent missing from my diet.
Proving the viability of the mindful survival kit, fiber= hunger, water + sunlight = prana, mindful walking + breathing, with no fatigue, cold acclimatization remains to be achieved.
At the end of the day , I had mindful coffee and cookies, maybe mindful bananas and coffee from amazon was missing!
I noticed a social worker, friend of mine wear a beautiful woven poncho, I wondered, could this be the solution to my Reynauld’s syndrome, a way to prevent hypothermia and also keep my hands buried under a blanket, I can wear? I discovered the Honcho Poncho, a way to wear a complete sleeping bag or quilt and use it as a sleeping bag as well in extreme weather!
Here is a square Poncho I made with a diagonal fold and buttons to attach and make a useful blanket from it.
Square T shirts are rectangular , with rectangular sleeves, all rough-and-ready, assembled with any cloth and fuse tape, with a portable iron box, a light weight traveler iron is easily purchased and a set of thick felt patches, with laser engraved WildernessDojo Logos are always kept handy.
Thus general square T Shirts or undershirts are readily assembled for survival, with engraved patches for repair. Patches can be used with heavy duty fuse tape to fix gear too, including tents, sleeping bags and backpacks….
Here is one I made….
Adopted from Franki Campells blog on eco-friendly and unisex, zero wastage designs.
The HSK mindfulness survival kit, is based on the book The Mindfulness Survival Kit, Five Essential Practices, by Thich Nhat Hanh.
There are essentially five mindfulness practices, of which Reverence For Life and Nourishment as Mindfulness Eating are relevant to Mindful Back-packing. We consider several readings from the book, followed by an open discussion, with a workbook.
The essential concrete practices are mindful breathing, sitting, walking, eating and sleeping…..
We end this blog post with meta-ethics and the discussion of semantics, ontology and epistemology and of course the meta-ethics of backpacking and the Buddhist philosophy of non-duality and the essential, meta ethical formulations of natural law and positive egotism.
WorkBook:
Mindful Walking , is a relaxed walking practice with 2-3 steps to the breath in or breath out or 3-4 steps to the breath in or breath out. In the reading we discuss, how the relaxation of mindful breathing, leads us to a relaxed state where we can add more steps to a deep mindful breath in or out and yet be mindful to the senses and the Buddha nature, the sounds of water, the forest, the ionic air and the smells and sounds.
Start with a small five minute walk, it could be up a staircase, down a hallway, in the skywalk or from one tree to the next. Add a camera to the walk, mindfully observing every observation and scene that speaks to you. Gradually increase this to an hour of hiking and then to backpacking.
Points to introspect.
1. The nature of mindful walking in the first five minutes.
2. Does mindfulness eliminate the fatigue of walking on a hike.
3. The cumulative, mindful experience, in a hike.
4. The baggage and backpacking, do you see a need for minimalism, what is the baggage, emotional and mental, you have accumulated, is backpacking the minimal baggage? Can you shed the excess flab?
Workbook:
A friend of mine, hit a TI circuit he designed and went bare chested with two blond women in hand, he was so spiritual, he gave up his career and spent the rest of his life chanting “Ram, Ram, Ram” as a manager of a spiritual book press, to me it was different, in India, we are naturally bare chested, and I live in a pair of sport shorts and am nudist!
Ram to me is the broad shouldered , handsome male with long arms that reach down to the knees, since my arms are just a little short of my knees, I visited the Shambhala center where we meditate palms on knees.
My breath function and lung volume is now so high, I pass all defense qualifications, the perfect Ram profile? Can we design the boxer square shorts, the completely anti post office game design with fuse tape rather than stitching, fashionable thick, super strong laser designed patches to fuse any tear, or could be used on normal fabric as a part of origami, patches to strengthen a design!
Maybe Aikido , Kyudo and Fukiya are now relevant? As martial arts. I practice ranging and centering with them, to center a target is the centered prayer and Maranatha the way!
A Parable.
Ram Ram Ram.
The scene is set in the Olympic National Park, as Ram, the Good Shepard , waits for the seasons for his annual migration south to Mojave, down the PCT.
Ram is naturally joined by a group of wild rams, all of whom are like minded, Ram and Ram.
Jesus Christ, another good Shepard is always seen with eves, rather than the Ram? The Beer? and the fuel cells? Here in the ‘real world’, Ram is with Rams, two horned and with ample beer to supplement water sources, and fuel cells that can use the beer too…….
The third aspect in the three Ram chant is the flash-RAM, the world of programmable global memory, a world of AR. Many of the memory people are followers of Ram, they believe would save them from the computer architects and their Pilate dogs. Dogged and forced to sell their wares at give-away prices, they head to the Oregon State University physics department for up-skilling and salvation, for mercy as they design L1, L2 and L3 caches for quantum SoC architectures. Just any L1 quantum memory cache has infinite storage in a QED mirror, preached Ram, a successor to Feynman. Infinite room at the bottom, brought up in a rare integration. Architecture and memory are one?
You can chant the three Rams, as you design circuits and SoCs.
Ram Ram flash-Ram to Cloud Upload.
I often feel like the toddler in the woods, an innocence that protects you, in ignorance of danger, maybe that is why babies are born helpless.
Here is a simple diaper, for the toddler in you, adopted from real solutions mothers have used for millennia for their kids.
This is the simple triangle cloth diaper.
I tried it this morning with mixed results, I think it will hold and is successful in performance!
Reminds me of Goldilocks and the three bears, I am probably the baby bear with these diapers. Goldilocks shows up and eats all my porridge, because she used TinyDB rather than SQL, papa bear evangelists!
She even was found sleeping on my cot, maybe you need cockroach-db now?
I just tried a trial of cockroachdb cluster, created a cluster on google cloud with a 2 core virtual machine, costs 11 cents an hour for the VM!
Meanwhile, meet some of your fan-club, wild roaches, with the diffraction coloring, Japanese scientists have been searching for , for years!
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