DAY DREAMING

DAY DREAMING IS GREAT! amazing results come out of it, some might say you don't care about the world or you are helpless.

The amazing power of daydreaming!!

I was reciently daydreaming and it came to me a really good idea (It wasn't that innovative) of searching for universities in the EU that offer the course that I want to study, and picturing myself as part of a cruise staff encouraged me to even look in french webpages.

Daydreaming also helped me to persuade my parents to give me more money : )

I found this very interesting, because i noticed that daydreaming brings people more ability to get ideas from the back of their minds and picture them as "they saw them" in order to persuade (themselves or other people)

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-power-daydreaming

"Isn't it great when a study confirms what you already suspected? There's a significant correlation between robust daydreaming and superior intelligence.

Researchers using brain scanning technology found that the "default network," the relatively new buzzword for the daydreaming state, was significantly more active in the "superior intelligence group" than the "average intelligence group." According to the study, this suggests that the stronger connections displayed in the "functional integration of the default network might be related to individual intelligent performance."

My nonscientific translation of this: while daydreaming, your thoughts are gliding and ricocheting all over the place--past, present, future--accessing all your stored knowledge, memories, experiences, etc. What the study seems to be saying is that these connections--the ricocheting thoughts if you will--appear to be stronger in smarter people. Maybe that's why they can get more out of their daydreaming states of mind. They can dig deeper. This seems to fit nicely with other studies that say that people who can go deeper into daydreaming states are more likely to come away with worthwhile insights.

At its simplest, daydreaming (or mind wandering, if you prefer that term) is just another information-processing system but a highly creative one. Ideas and associations seem to come to us from nowhere, but they are not a bolt from the blue so much as a bolt from the stew--the stew of knowledge and experience you've been slow-cooking over the years but which you are now able to link together in novel ways courtesy of daydreaming.

Many brilliant individuals--from Einstein to Mozart--credit their imagination as the source of their creativity and genius. Einstein often compared his creative process to that of poets and musicians, describing his insights as "a sudden rapture." He famously said: "When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."

Of course all the knowledge has to be there to tap into and later the hard work has to be done. But to make the connections--that takes imagination and vision. Without imagination, knowledge would just be a set of facts and figures going nowhere.

This adds to the argument that it's worthwhile to cultivate and examine your daydreaming state of mind, especially in terms of problem-solving and innovation. Figure out when you do your best daydreaming and build it into your schedule. Probably the best and easiest way to trigger daydreaming is to start walking. Give your mind time to roam and see what new connections you can make. If anyone gives you a hard time, tell them that Einstein did his best thinking while taking long, rambling walks (often getting lost in the process!). And let's quit badgering people and children for being daydreamers. At the very least, daydreaming is a natural thought process; at its best--it's probably our greatest hope for breakthrough thinking."

© Amy Fries

Chönyid bardo at the pool

I was swiming at The Aztec's pool and suddenly came to me a thought of testing Chönyid bardo, I just waited in the 2m pool untill there was no one in the pool so i couldn't be disturbed (as well as seen weird :) )because I just Layed face-up and started breathing, it was really weird because there was one moment when i didn't feel the water, I was extremely relaxed that when I "woke up" I was UNDER THE WATER! i didn't feel that i was really drowning, the worse part was that i was in the 2m pool so i just managed to get to the edge and breathe again.

I also counted the time that it took me to relax (and wake up) and it really was a short period, 3 minutes, in those 3 minutes, I (as I said) didn't feel the water, like flying, coming to the end of those minutes I started loosing sense of location and i didn't feel my legs or arms anymore, (probably because I wasn't breathing)

total calmness, EXTREME! I reccomend it afer a good portion of exercise, but with supervision :S

Calem Point

Talking to my friend Semyon Vesnin, about matters of life, we out of nowhere had this idiea of creating a word ou of a concept.

it's really personal how we got there, but the idea of CALEM POINT is:

Knowing yourself and finding your own truth, about what you like and where you go, you can have a real inner calmness. No matter where you are or what the wolrd is givin you, your inner knowledge will find your clamness.

For me it is more a concept than an acheivable point, because everyone changes and nobody has a complete knowledge of him/herself, so we cannot reach knowledge of ourselves.

Firstly CALEM POINT came as CAVEN POINT CALmness-heaVEN, but making some research, we found that there is a place in U.S.A called Calem Point, that is the reason why we changed the name. It is still the same point, but with different name.

Experiencing Bardos

Gavin (our TOK teacher) once told us about bardos point and the way it works. but reall i've been searching for this bardos point and it becomes more and more interesting for my point of view. Once I tried to sleep doig his perception of bardos, with my breath and really worked.
but what concerns me is that i foind different deffinitions of bardos and that actually there are stages of bardos.

this is what i found in Wikipedia:

The Tibetan word Bardo means literally "intermediate state" - also translated as "transitional state" or "in-between state" or "liminal state". In Sanskrit the concept has the name antarabhāva.

Shinay bardo (Tibetan): is the first bardo of birth and life. This bardo commences from conception until the last breath, when the mindstream withdraws from the body.

Milam bardo (Tibetan): is the second bardo of the dream state. The Milam Bardo is a subset of the first Bardo. Dream Yoga develops practices to integrate the dream state into Buddhist sadhana.

Samten bardo (Tibetan) is the third bardo of meditation. This bardo is generally only experienced by meditators, though individuals may have spontaneous experience of it.
Samten Bardo is a subset of the Shinay Bardo.

Chikkhai bardo (Tibetan): is the fourth bardo of the moment of death. According to tradition, this bardo is held to commence when the outer and inner signs presage that the onset of death is nigh, and continues through the dissolution or transmutation of the Mahabhuta until the external and internal breath has completed.

Chönyid bardo (Tibetan): is the fifth bardo of the luminosity of the true nature which commences after the final 'inner breath' (Sanskrit: prana, vayu; Tibetan: rlung). It is within this Bardo that visions and auditory phenomena occur. In the Dzogchen teachings, these are known as the spontaneously manifesting Thödgal (Tibetan: thod-rgyal) visions. Concomitant to these visions, there is a welling of profound peace and pristine awareness. Sentient beings who have not practiced during their lived experience and/or who do not recognize the clear light (Tibetan: od gsal) at the moment of death are usually deluded throughout the fifth bardo of luminosity.

Sidpai bardo (Tibetan): is the sixth bardo of becoming or transmigration. This bardo endures until the inner-breath commences in the new transmigrating form determined by the 'karmic seeds' within the storehouse consciousness.