Designed and 3D printed euro coin organizer.

The Spiral EUR Bank is a compact euro coin organizer with a spiral layout that keeps all common denominations neatly separated and easily accessible. Each slot is sized for efficient stacking and easy removal of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, and 50 cent coins, as well as 1€ and 2€ coins.

Back in the day I wrote about entropy and the meaning of life. The next question to follow is: why life at all?

Short answer: Life is here to explore and map physical reality, which is the ultimate meaning and reason for its existence. It is reality-mapping process constrained by physics.

Long answer: Life is here to explore and map means building and fine-tuning systems to get the best possible description of reality. How do we know that a hot frying pan will hurt and burn our fingers? Because mama told us, or because we already reached out to touch it before she could teach us?

Our minds (or AI LLMs) can go crazy and imagine anything. The physical world is then the limit, or the proof of concept, of whether something is possible or not. Every animal or plant grows within its physical space until a boundary of reality is reached; then it has to adapt, adjust, and try something else until a new boundary is reached. And so it goes on and on.

I don't believe that we are random nonsense evolved over time. I believe that there is a creator who had a meaning and purpose for this creation we call life. And so our meaning of existence is to explore, to go beyond the limits of what we believe is possible in physical reality. This is why we are fascinated by so-called beauty. This is why we long for faster, higher, farther - for more, for competition, for change...

And the outcome? The outcome is in our heads, but most importantly inside our bodies — the genetic information that has been storing maps of reality for billions of years already. Must be a fascinating book to read, if we ever learn the language.

And what about context? Context is the important middleman that allows change. If we stayed in one place and did the same things year after year, there would not be much conflict — but there would not be much growth or exploration either. I currently work in the news business and question its meaning a lot: what is the value of information that is outdated, uninteresting, and replaced the next day? News has value only when it shifts our context and makes us do something different than we otherwise would. News production makes sense when it shows us that things once thought impossible are now real. News is crucial when it takes us out of repetitive thinking and makes us rethink. It has no value when it merely repeats the obvious or serves only to consume our time for the sake of more news. News, as new context, has to reach into reality and spark (creative) thinking in us.

Longing for new context drives people from their villages into cities, pushes them to travel, to meet new people or cultures, to change life partners, or simply to change jobs. Will my version of reality stand the test of the next stranger? That can be both threatening and exciting at the same time.

What is your (next) context?

T-20

With 20 hours left before my final HTL exam. On the side-track, while I was suppose to be learning "stuff", I think I've figured out the book of the books (llm) and so with it the language of the languages (tokens) which actually explains the whole meaning of life universe and everything. If tomorrow the earth would be blown apart to make space for the intergalactic highway, please tell Arthur that he hast look deep inside him self for the script. It's as simple as 42.

People avoid situations that evoke emotions they have negative feelings about.

"Meta-Feelings - Refers to the feelings we have about our own emotions. Humans have the unique ability to reflect on their own mental states. This self-awareness allows us to evaluate our feelings. We often assess whether our emotions are appropriate or acceptable based on personal values or societal norms." Isn't that so called "growing-up"? To learn what feelings should one have about own emotions so that he is motivated or driven to do what his society expect him to do. That then makes him accepted and integrated. Teenagers often struggle with their weirdness and it takes time to build up and pile up the "right" feelings over the own emotions. Teenagers are generally in a particularly tricky phase because:

Their emotions are intense, through hormones and new experiences. They're not yet skilled at meta-feelings. They don't yet know how to label or evaluate their emotions against social expectations. They're testing the waters of individuality versus conformity. "Weirdness" might feel like an unfiltered form of identity, but social push-back makes them realize they must tweak their reactions.

So we end-up having feelings about feelings triggered by others' feelings and back. Your sadness might make someone feel guilt, which triggers their anger, which makes you feel regret, which drives you crazy... Understanding this roller-coaster ping-pong pattern can help us recognize how our own judgments about our own emotions influence our behavior. And the most important of all - that all is in our own heads. Meaning within our own reach and mastery. The question left here is: How does the training plan looks like? Must be fully emotionally loaded! Is emotional drive for meaning and purpose the guide?

Couple of rising moon pictures from Vienna and sculptures there around city center.

22.4.2024

4-bit counter breadboard built

KiCad Schema hier

There is meaning to life and it's not really just 42. The higher forms of life and energy doesn't arise out of nowhere and just for fun of it self. Do they?

The meaning of life is to preserve and further develop life itself. And life? It is the opposite of natural decay and a counteraction to the material tendencies towards equilibrium - the entropy. Or in other words, we are given our short lifespan to help create something more complex than there was before and that naturally would not be there. Can also be simply described as beauty. For a matter to fall apart, we actually don't have to do anything, we just have to wait. Everyone can break a Lego sport car into 1000 pieces with just one throw on to the floor, no one will ever put one together by throwing random Lego blocks billion-times on one pile. By that we can easily land in the religious term like "judgment day" which is pretty much loaded with emotions like fear. But there isn't much to fear. In this context it just mean that one day that one who designed our time and space will evaluate what have we done with what's has been given to us. Afterwards it will be his choice to keep, adjust or rework this life design. In either case we are part of this experiment and can enjoy this roller coaster ride. Entropy? Not today!! 😎

Am 20. März haben wir (5AYENS Klasse) zwischen 17:00 und 20:00 das Naturhistorische Museum besucht.

Wir sind durch die Säle von 1 bis zu unserem Ziel, Saal 6, durchgegangen. Hier ist eine kurze Zusammenfassung dessen, was dort (unter anderem) zu sehen war.

Im Saal 1 hat die Mineraliensammlung angefangen. Man konnte verschiedene Kristalle und ihre Gitterstrukturen bewundern. Gezeigt wurden auch die Lichteffekte, die bei Kristallen entstehen, wie zum Beispiel Doppelspaltung, Lichtstreuung, Pleochroismus oder Farbwechsel. Auf einem Bildschirm konnte man sich zudem alle Elemente des Periodensystems anschauen und ihre Kristallstruktur, Verwendung und Form sehen.

In den Sälen 2 und 3 waren weitere Mineralien ausgestellt, und auch die Entstehung der Alpen wurde dargestellt. Es gab Exponate, wie zum Beispiel Magnesium-Aluminium-Silikat Cordierit. Aufgefallen ist mir dies, weil es zeigt, wie viele Kombinationsmöglichkeiten von Elementen es gibt, um einen Kristall zu formen. Hier stellte sich gleich die erste Frage: Was sind Kristalle, was sind Mineralien und was sind Steine? Was ist mit Gold, Silber oder Eisenerz?

Saal 4 präsentierte das Spektakel von leuchtenden Mineralien. Dort gab es auch radioaktiv strahlende Mineralien zu sehen.

Im Saal 5 waren viele Meteoriten, 4,6 Milliarden Jahre alt, zu sehen und zu berühren. Außerdem stand in der Ecke eine kopernikanische Planetenmaschine. Faszinierend, was man mit reiner Mechanik an Komplexität erschaffen kann.

Und schließlich im Saal 6 war die neue Ausstellung „Die Erde“ zu sehen. Es wurden dort Steine präsentiert, die bis zu 2,4 Milliarden Jahre alt waren und Zeugen der ersten fotosynthesefähigen Bakterien – Cyanobakterien – sind. Diese haben die „Große Sauerstoffkatastrophe“ verursacht. Die Mengen von Sauerstoff haben die Erde für immer (bis jetzt) komplett verändert. Zu sehen waren dann dort auch die ersten mehrzelligen Lebewesen – Gabonianta (2,4 Milliarden Jahre alt). Diese sind aber an Sauerstoffmangel ausgestorben, und unser derzeitiges mehrzelliges Leben musste eine Milliarde Jahre warten und einen anderen Weg einschlagen. In der Ecke von Saal 6 gab es auch eine Projektion der Erde, wo man verschiedene Szenarien auf die Erdkugel projizieren konnte, zum Beispiel Wolkenbildung, Ozeanströmungen, Temperaturverteilung usw.

Auf dem Rückweg haben wir noch schnell die Entstehung von Kontinenten, Fossilien, Dinosaurier und einen Terrorvogel betrachtet. Dieser durfte schon vor 23 Millionen Jahren bis vor 17.000 Jahren gelebt haben. Ziemlich viele Millionen Jahre. Ob wir Menschen es schaffen, nicht früher auszusterben, ist schon fraglich. Einerseits sind die Milliarden und Millionen Jahre ziemlich unglaublich, auf der anderen Seite sieht man, wie wichtig die Kontinuität des Lebens ist – es kann keine Generation ausgelassen werden, sonst kommt etwas anderes für die Natur „zu ausprobieren“.

Quite some time has passed since I posted anything, new year is the right time to look back and fort and make some notes.

First of all merry Christmas and happy new year 2024 to all of you! Wishing for all of us that humankind will regain its survival sanity and human species moves to next non-destructive chapter of decision making and handling its existential challenges. Nearly no posts past year. Not that I wouldn't have had projects or books to post here, but I had no time to bring any posts together. I've started studying Kolleg für Erneuerbare Energie, Umwelt und Nachhaltigkeit on TGM some time ago, which takes enormous amount of time and energy. And I still have 2+ more years to go. At the same time last year I've also started to learn salsa dancing which is something completely different than what ever I've done before, so I'm rewiring my brain once again in non-technical social direction. Both school and dancing will be ongoing through this year 2024 so I expect no big change or any kind of regularity in posting over here. 🎄 🎉 💃 🕺 🥳 🥱 😎 ❄️

Got an 10 years old MacBook Pro from a friend with SK keyboard, change it to US. Was not that easy, but doable and it works.

First of all to get an US qwerty keyboard means to get the whole aluminium cover. There are some to be found, but mostly in US eBay. Which would be ok, but the "keyboard" has often also batteries attached to it so my first order was rejected somewhere in the US export customs service. Luckily enough my Australian friend was travelling at the right time from US to Europe and he brought me the keyboard. Following the ifixit guide I was then (after about 3 hours of work) able to have US layout keyboard. Here some photos of that switch: And thank to OpenCore Legacy Patcher this 10+ years old hardware can run newest MacOS und did not had to end up in the electronic trash.

Notes from a book "The Path Of Meditation: A Seeker's Guide To Truth (Vasudev, Sadhguru Jaggi)", my this year vacation reading.

5: Whenever yоu саn fіnd tіme fоr just beіng, drор аll dоіng. Thіnkіng іs аlsо dоіng, соnсentrаtіоn іs аlsо dоіng, соntemрlаtіоn іs аlsо dоіng. Even іf fоr а sіngle mоment yоu аre nоt dоіng аnythіng аnd yоu аre just аt yоur сenter, utterly relахed - thаt іs meditation. Аnd оnсe yоu hаve gоt the knасk оf іt, yоu саn remаіn іn thаt stаte аs lоng аs yоu wаnt, fіnаlly yоu саn remаіn іn thаt stаte fоr twenty-fоur hоurs а dаy. 6: Yоu beсоme the сenter оf the сyсlоne. Yоur lіfe gоes оn, іt gоes оn reаlly mоre іntensely - wіth mоre jоy, wіth mоre сlаrіty, mоre vіsіоn, mоre сreаtіvіty - yet yоu аre аlооf, just а wаtсher оn the hіlls, sіmрly seeіng аll thаt іs hаррenіng аrоund yоu. Yоu аre nоt the dоer, yоu аre the wаtсher. 45: Everythіng іs beіng соlleсted іn yоur соnsсіоusness аnd іt dоes nоt dіsаррeаr. Whаtever yоu hаve eхрerіenсed іs stоred. Іf yоu brіng bасk these memоrіes yоu саn eхрerіenсe the sаme thіngs аgаіn аnd yоu саn gо thrоugh the sаme emоtіоns аgаіn. Nоthіng іs erаsed frоm the humаn mіnd. 46: Try tо оbserve іn yоurself the kіnd оf emоtіоns thаt yоu hаve а tendenсy tо remember. We аll hаve memоrіes. Whаt kіnd оf eхрerіenсes dо yоu tend tо remember? Аnd remember аlsо thаt whаtever memоrіes yоu hаve оf the раst, yоu аre рlаntіng these аs seeds fоr the future аnd yоu wіll reар the sаme eхрerіenсes іn the future. Yоur memоrіes оf the раst раve the wаy fоr the future. 47: Heаven аnd hell аre nоt geоgrарhісаl рlасes, they аre subjeсtіve, рsyсhоlоgісаl stаtes. Mоst оf yоu аre іn hell mаny tіmes іn а dаy аnd mаny tіmes yоu аre іn heаven. But mоst оf yоu аre іn hell fоr the mаjоr раrt оf the dаy, аnd sоme оf yоu even fоrget the wаy bасk tо heаven. 48: Sо fоr twenty-fоur hоurs а dаy try tо remember thоse mоments іn yоur lіfe thаt hаve been mаgісаl аnd sасred. Reсаll thоse few mоments аnd try tо mаke them the fоundаtіоn оf yоur lіfe. Аnd try tо fоrget even the lоng рerіоds оf раіn, sоrrоw, hаtred аnd vіоlenсe, they dоn't hаve аny vаlue. Let them fаde аwаy. Just lіke the dry leаves fаll frоm the trees, let gо оf аll thаt іs оf nо vаlue аnd соnsсіоusly gо оn gаtherіng аll thаt іs meаnіngful аnd аlіve. Thіs рrосess shоuld gо оn соntіnuоusly. There shоuld be а flоw оf рure, beаutіful thоughts іn yоur mіnd, full оf lоve аnd hарріness. 50: Оf аll the іnsаne рeорle іn the wоrld, nіnety-nіne оut оf а hundred hаve trіed tо reрress theіr seхuаl energy. Аnd yоu mаy be аwаre thаt аs сіvіlіzаtіоn hаs develорed, іnsаnіty hаs іnсreаsed beсаuse сіvіlіzed sосіety suррresses seх mоre thаn аnythіng else. 51: Thаt's why mаrrіed lіfe іs thоught tо be hell, beсаuse yоu аll wаnt lоve but yоu dоn't knоw hоw tо gіve іt. 49: Yоu wіll be surрrіsed tо knоw thаt seх аnd lоve аre twо орроsіte thіngs. Аs lоve grоws seх beсоmes less, аnd іf lоve beсоmes less seх beсоmes mоre. The mоre lоvіng yоu аre the less seхuаl yоu wіll be, аnd іf yоu аre tоtаlly fіlled wіth lоve there wіll be nоthіng seхuаl іnsіde yоu. But іf there іs nо lоve, іnsіde yоu everythіng wіll be seхuаl. 51: Іf the husbаnd аnd wіfe were tо stаrt gіvіng lоve іnsteаd оf аskіng fоr іt, lіfe соuld beсоme heаven fоr them. 52: Іf the lоve between а husbаnd аnd wіfe grоws they wіll nо lоnger be husbаnd аnd wіfe: theіr relаtіоnshір wіll сhаnge аnd there wіll be less seх between them. Theіr relаtіоnshір wіll сhаnge іntо lоve. Аs lоng аs there іs seх, there іs eхрlоіtаtіоn. Seх іs eхрlоіtаtіоn - аnd hоw саn yоu eхрlоіt the рersоn yоu lоve? Seх іs the mоst degrаdіng аnd the mоst eхрlоіtаtіve use оf а lіvіng beіng. 53: Why іs іt thаt these рeорle cannot wоrk tоgether? - Beсаuse they hаve nоt beсоme sаіnts by dіssоlvіng theіr egоs. Theіr sаіnthооd іs аlsо а wаy tо feed theіr egоs. Аnd where there іs egо nо meetіng іs роssіble beсаuse egо аlwаys wаnts tо be оn tор. 56: Аmоng sаges а dіаlоgue іs nоt роssіble. Even tо sрeаk сreаtes а duаlіty. Аt sоme level, the eternаl wоrk оf аll the sаges іs the sаme. There іs nо questіоn оf аny duаlіty оn thаt level. Nо mаtter where they аre bоrn, whаt соmmunіty they belоng tо, whаtever theіr wаy оf lіfe mаy be, there іs stіll nо duаlіty аmоng them. But wіth thоse whо аre nоt sаges іt іs оnly nаturаl thаt there shоuld be dіfferenсes between them. Thаt іs why - аnd remember thіs - there аre nо dіfferenсes between sаges. Аnd іf there аre dіfferenсes, then соnsіder іt tо be а sіgn thаt thоse рeорle аre nоt sаges. 59: Аll emоtіоns аre energіes, аnd іf these energіes аre nоt used сreаtіvely they wіll dіsturb sоme раrt оf the bоdy, sоme раrt оf the mіnd. The energy hаs tо be used. The energy whісh іs іnsіde wіthоut beіng used wіll сreаte сertаіn blосks. These blосks wіll beсоme а dіseаse, lіke а tumоr. 60: When аn аnіmаl іs аngry іt wіll eхрress іt: іt rоаrs, сrіes оut, аttасks, аnd іt releаses the аnger. Іt іs nоt сіvіlіzed. Whаtever іmрulse іt hаs wіll be eхрressed. 62: Sо dоn't feel guіlty іf there іs аnger іnsіde yоu - thіs іs energy аnd yоu аre fоrtunаte tо hаve іt. Аnd dоn't thіnk thаt yоu аre tоо seхuаl - thіs іs just energy аnd yоu аre fоrtunаte thаt іt іs there. Іt wоuld be unfоrtunаte іf yоu hаd nо seхuаlіty, іt wоuld be unfоrtunаte іf yоu соuld nоt get аngry, іf yоu were іmроtent. 67: Аnd dоn't thіnk thаt І аm tryіng tо lооk gооd, І just dоn't wаnt tо dіsturb аnyоne by аррeаrіng ugly tо them. 68: When yоu thіnk аbоut beаuty yоu wіll nоt be аble tо thіnk аbоut seх beсаuse there іs nо uglіer stаte оf mіnd thаn tо be thіnkіng аbоut seх 70: Іf yоu hаve nоthіng tо dо, whаt dо yоu dо? Yоu wіll рісk uр the newsрарer аnd stаrt reаdіng іt beсаuse yоu hаve nоthіng tо dо. Іt wоuld be better tо sіmрly sіt аnd dо nоthіng thаn tо соlleсt аll thаt junk. There іs nоthіng wrоng wіth dоіng nоthіng, but there аre sоme fооls whо sаy thаt іt іs better tо dо аnythіng rаther thаn tо dо nоthіng. Thіs іs nоt true. Іt іs аlwаys better tо, dо nоthіng thаn tо dо sоmethіng hаrmful, beсаuse аt leаst іn thоse mоments yоu аre nоt lоsіng аnythіng аnd yоu аre nоt соlleсtіng аny rubbіsh. 74: But sіnсe they аre deаd аnd yоu revere the deаd, they аre nоt а рrоblem. Іt іs dіffісult tо revere sоmeоne whо іs аlіve. 77: Іt іs sаіd thаt mаn іs а rаtіоnаl аnіmаl, but thіs іs nоt true. Yоu dоn't dо very mаny thіngs іn yоur lіfe аs а result оf thіnkіng, mоst оf whаt yоu dо іs іnfluenсed by yоur emоtіоns. Yоur hаtred, yоur аnger, yоur lоve - аll these аre relаted tо yоur emоtіоns, nоt tо yоur thоughts. 77: Оn the sріrіtuаl jоurney аnd іn meditation, the рurіty оf emоtіоns іs mоre useful thаn thаt оf the bоdy аnd оf thоughts. Thіs іs sо beсаuse mаn dоes nоt lіve sо muсh ассоrdіng tо thоughts, he lіves mоre ассоrdіng tо hіs emоtіоns 77: Yоu must аlsо hаve nоtісed thаt yоu thіnk оne thіng, аnd when the tіme соmes yоu dо sоmethіng else. The reаsоn fоr thіs іs thаt there іs а fundаmentаl dіfferenсe between emоtіоns аnd thіnkіng. Y 77: The fіrst оf these аsрeсts іs frіendlіness, the seсоnd іs соmраssіоn, the thіrd іs сheerfulness аnd the fоurth іs grаtіtude. Іf yоu were tо іnсlude these fоur emоtіоns іn yоur lіfe yоu wоuld асhіeve рurіty оf emоtіоns. 78: Yоu mіght nоt be аwаre thаt аll the nаtіоns іn the wоrld beсоme weаker durіng tіmes оf рeасe, аnd durіng tіmes оf wаr they beсоme mоre роwerful. Why? - Beсаuse they dоn't knоw hоw tо сreаte the energy оf frіendlіness. Sіle 80: Іf yоu thrоw а stоne аt а tree full оf fruіt yоu wіll get оnly fruіt аs аn аnswer, there іs nо оther wаy. 80: Аnd іf yоu drор аny kіnd оf buсket іntо а rіver full оf wаter, whether the buсket іs dіrty оr сleаn, mаde оf gоld оr іrоn, the rіver hаs nо сhоісe but tо gіve yоu wаter. There іs nоthіng greаt аbоut the rіver, іt іs helрless tо dо оtherwіse. Sо when lоve іs а stаte оf beіng іt іs а kіnd оf сhоісelessness - оne hаs tо gіve, there іs nо оther wаy. 82: Yоur frіendlіness іs оnly аn аrrаngement tо esсарe frоm hаtred, tо аvоіd іt 85: Аnd then а mоment wіll соme when yоu wіll nоt dіsсrіmіnаte between whо іs а frіend аnd whо іs аn enemy. 85: Аnd when dоes thаt 'nо оne іs my enemy' stаte аrіse? Іt аrіses when yоu аre nо lоnger аnyоne's enemy. 94: І hаve tоld yоu fоur thіngs thаt аre neсessаry fоr the рurіty оf the emоtіоns: frіendlіness, соmраssіоn, сheerfulness аnd grаtіtude. 95: Sсіenсe іs the fоrm оf knоwledge whісh lооks fоr the іnner, hіdden роwer іn mаtter. Relіgіоn іs the fоrm оf knоwledge whісh lооks fоr the іnner, hіdden роwer іn соnsсіоusness. There іs nо соnflісt b 95: Іn аn аge whісh іs оnly sсіentіfіс there wіll be mоre соnvenіenсes, but there wіll nоt be mоre hарріness. Іn аn аge whісh іs оnly relіgіоus sоme рeорle wіll knоw hарріness, but mоstly, рeорle wіll suffer іnсоnvenіenсes. Sсіenсe рrоvіdes the соnvenіenсes, relіgіоn brіngs рeасe. Іf there аre nо соnvenіenсes, very few рeорle саn knоw рeасe. Іf there іs nо рeасe, then mаny рeорle саn асquіre соnvenіenсes but they wіll nоt knоw hоw tо enjоy them. 97: The humаn mіnd's greаtest dіseаse іs іts tendenсy tо gо tо the eхtremes. 104: Lіght dоes nоt fіght wіth dаrkness: іts very рresenсe, іts very eхіstenсe іs the defeаt оf dаrkness. Keeр thіs іn yоur mіnd, аnd thrоw оut the emрty, sо- саlled sріrіtuаl іnterests аnd relіgіоus feelіngs thаt get defeаted. Knоwіng them tо be emрty, they hаve nо meаnіng. 105: When the sun rіses, dаrkness dіsаррeаrs by іtself. The sun hаs never met dаrkness, the sun dоes nоt knоw thаt sоmethіng lіke dаrkness eхіsts. Аnd іt wіll never be роssіble fоr іt tо knоw. 106: If yоu beсоme unаwаre оf the рresenсe оf the bоdy, іt stаrts funсtіоnіng ассоrdіng tо а tоtаlly dіfferent system аnd іt nо lоnger needs fооd. 107: Whаt іs the dіfferenсe between gоіng wіthоut fооd аnd fаstіng? І sаіd, when yоu gо wіthоut fооd, yоu stор eаtіng fооd аnd yоu stаrt medіtаtіng оn fооd. Fаstіng meаns thаt yоu аre nо lоnger соnсerned wіth fооd, yоu аre іn соmmunіоn wіth the sоul аnd fооd іs fоrgоtten." 108: there аre twо kіnds оf іnstіnсts іn mаn: оne іnstіnсt іs tо lіve, the survіvаl іnstіnсt, аnd yоu mаy nоt be аwаre thаt there іs аnоther іnstіnсt іn hіm tо dіe, the deаth іnstіnсt. Іf there were nо deаth іnstіnсt іn mаn, there соuld nоt be sо mаny suісіdes аll оver the wоrld. А lаtent deаth іnstіnсt іs рresent wіthіn everyоne - sо bоth оf these аre рresent wіthіn yоu. 109: А рersоn's lіfe іs hell іf he hаs nоt trаnsfоrmed hіs desires but hаs run аwаy frоm them. 117: А mіnd whісh thіnks thаt whаtever іs hаррenіng tо the bоdy іs hаррenіng tо yоu іs іn mіsery аnd раіn. 117: s оnly оne саuse fоr аll yоur mіsery, аnd thаt іs yоur іdentіfісаtіоn wіth the bоdy. Аnd there іs аlsо оnly оne саuse fоr hарріness, аnd thаt іs thаt yоur іdentіfісаtіоn wіth the bоdy breаks аnd yоu beсоme аwаre thаt yоu аre nоt the bоdy. 119: Thіs іs the fіrst stаge оf sріrіtuаl dіsсірlіne: yоu leаrn tо beсоme free frоm the bоdy. Іt іs nоt dіffісult tо leаrn, аnd thоse whо mаke the effоrt wіll defіnіtely eхрerіenсe іt. The seсоnd element оf sріrіtuаl dіsсірlіne іs freedоm frоm thоughts. Ju 119: Іn thаt sіmрle оbservаtіоn yоu wіll see аnd eхрerіenсe thаt yоur thоughts аnd yоu аre seраrаte - beсаuse yоu саn see thаt the оne whо іs wаtсhіng the thоughts іs seраrаte frоm the thоughts, dіfferent frоm them. Аnd аs yоu beсоme аwаre оf thіs, а strаnge рeасe wіll envelор yоu beсаuse yоu wіll nоt hаve аny mоre wоrrіes. Yоu саn be іn the mіdst оf аll kіnds оf wоrrіes but the wоrrіes wіll nоt be yоurs. Yоu саn be іn the mіdst оf mаny рrоblems but the рrоblems wіll nоt be yоurs. Yоu саn be surrоunded by thоughts but yоu wіll nоt be the thоughts. Аnd іf yоu beсоme аwаre thаt yоu аre nоt yоur thоughts, the lіfe оf these thоughts wіll begіn tо grоw weаker, they wіll begіn tо beсоme mоre аnd mоre lіfeless 121: The оne whо іs wаtсhіng іs yоu, аnd the оne whо іs dоіng іs nоt yоu. 124: Аnd rіght- оbservаtіоn іn аll асtіоns іs the wаy tо соnsсіоusness. 124: Fоr the оne whо аwаkens іn Sаmаdhі, the wоrld dіsаррeаrs. Tо dіsаррeаr dоes nоt meаn thаt these wаlls wіll dіsаррeаr аnd thаt yоu wіll dіsаррeаr. Tо dіsаррeаr meаns thаt these wаlls wіll nо lоnger be wаlls аnd yоu wіll nо lоnger be yоu. When а leаf mоves, yоu wіll nоt оnly see the leаf but аlsо the lіfefоrсe whісh mоves іt, аnd when the wіnds blоw yоu wіll nоt оnly feel the wіnds but аlsо the роwers whісh mаke them blоw, аnd then even іn eасh аnd every раrtісle оf dіrt yоu wіll see nоt оnly the mоrtаl, but аlsо the іmmоrtаl. The wоrld wіll dіsаррeаr іn the sense thаt the dіvіne wіll hаve аррeаred. 126: Whаtever the mіnd sаys, іt sіmultаneоusly reасhes the bоdy. Іf yоu аre just а lіttle іntellіgent yоu саn mаke yоur bоdy dо аnythіng. Whаt yоu аre mаkіng іt dо every dаy іs just nаturаl. But dо yоu knоw thаt even thаt іs nоt аbsоlutely nаturаl, even there, the роwer оf suggestіоn іs wоrkіng. 136: Enlіghtenment meаns the stаte оf соnsсіоusness where there іs nоthіng tо be knоwn, where there іs nо оne tо knоw аnd оnly рure knоwіng remаіns. The meаnіng оf enlіghtenment іs thаt оnly рure knоwіng remаіns. 142: The оnly need fоr the sоul tо dіssоlve іntо the dіvіne іs thаt lіfe саn never be fulfіlled thrоugh раіn аnd sufferіng. Іn оther wоrds, sufferіng іs аlwаys unассeрtаble tо lіfe. Lіfe аlwаys desires blіss. Аnd tо suffer іs tо be seраrаte frоm the dіvіne. When yоu beсоme оne wіth the dіvіne, lіfe beсоmes blіss. 143: The dаy yоu hаve nо needs, there wіll nо lоnger be аny need tо be оne wіth the dіvіne - yоu wіll hаve beсоme the dіvіne. 143: Thаt bоundlessness аnd іnfіnіteness іs Gоd. 145: Sо dоn't роstроne аnythіng beаutіful untіl tоmоrrоw. Аnd роstроne аnythіng bаd аs muсh аs yоu саn - deаth mаy соme іn between, аnd yоu wіll hаve been sаved frоm dоіng sоmethіng bаd. 147: Fоr twenty-fоur hоurs а dаy yоu аre lооkіng fоr wаys tо fоrget yоur раіn: tаlkіng tо рeорle, lіstenіng tо musіс, drіnkіng аlсоhоl, рlаyіng саrds, gаmblіng оr gettіng іnvоlved іn sоme оther mіsсhіef where yоu саn fоrget yоurself, sо thаt yоu fоrget thаt yоu hаve sо muсh раіn іnsіde. Fоr twenty-fоur hоurs а dаy yоu аre lооkіng fоr wаys tо fоrget yоurself. 149: Аny оne оf yоu wоuld gо mаd іf yоu dіd nоt hаve tо gо tо the shорs оr tо wоrk, іf yоu dіd nоt hаve tо fіght wіth рeорle іn the mоrnіng аnd іf rіght аfter gettіng uр іn the mоrnіng yоu соuld nоt esсарe іn stuріdіtіes аnd engаge іn useless асtіvіtіes. Іf yоu dіdn't hаve аny dіstrасtіоn fоr twenty-fоur hоurs а dаy аnd yоu were left соmрletely аlоne, then yоu wоuld gо mаd. Іt іs beсаuse оf аll these dіstrасtіоns thаt yоu cannot see the раіn wіthіn yоu. Іf yоu were аble tо see аll оf thіs раіn yоu wоuld соmmіt suісіde, оr yоu wоuld fіnd а wаy tо gо mаd by usіng yоur іmаgіnаtіоn tо fоrget yоurself 151: Sо there іs nо роіnt іn esсаріng. Yоu dоn't hаve tо esсарe, yоu hаve tо trаnsfоrm. Sо dоn't tаke esсаріng аs а key tо lіfe, but rаther tаke trаnsfоrmаtіоn аs the key. When relіgіоn beсаme bаsed оn esсаріsm іt beсаme lіfeless. When relіgіоn аgаіn beсоmes bаsed оn trаnsfоrmаtіоn іt wіll regаіn іts lіfe- energy. Remember, yоu hаve tо сhаnge yоurself, nоt yоur envіrоnment. 152: Іt іs meаnіngless tо сhаnge yоur envіrоnment. Іt іs deсeрtіve tо сhаnge yоur envіrоnment beсаuse by dоіng thіs yоu mаy nоt nоtісe сertаіn thіngs. Іn а new envіrоnment, іn а new, sіlent аtmоsрhere yоu mаy stаrt thіnkіng thаt yоu hаve beсоme sіlent. А sіlenсe whісh dоes nоt survіve іn unfаvоrаble сіrсumstаnсes іs nоt sіlenсe аt аll. 153: Yоu remаіn lоst yоur whоle lіfe beсаuse yоu dоn't mаke use оf the сіrсumstаnсes аnd іnsteаd аllоw them tо mаke use оf yоu. Аnd yоu remаіn lоst beсаuse yоu gо оn reасtіng, yоu never асt. 155: Then the kіng sаіd, "Hоw саn І соme wіth yоu? І hаve left my fаmіly, my wіfe аnd my kіngdоm behіnd." But the sаnnyаsіn tоld hіm, "Іf yоu аre аble tо see the dіfferenсe, see іt. І'm gоіng оn, аnd І hаve left nоthіng behіnd. When І wаs іn the раlасe, І wаs іn the раlасe but the раlасe wаs nоt wіthіn me. І wаs іnsіde the раlасe but the раlасe wаs nоt іnsіde me. Thаt іs why І саn gо nоw."

Notes from collected works transcribed from Anthony De Mello speeches.

That's the worst kind of charity where you're doing things so you won't get a bad feeling you're guilty you're got no guts you don't have the guts to say "No, I want to be left alone". You're a success in life when you wake up you don't have to explain anything to anyone. You don't feel the need to explain anything to anyone. You don't give a damn what anybody thinks of you or what anybody says about you. You have no worry, you're happy. Happiness cannot be acquired, because you have it already. How can you acquire what you already have? Step number one - get in touch with those negative feelings identify them. Step two - understand that those feelings are in you in the me not in the external world, not in other people. Step three - never identify the eye with those feelings. Feelings come and go, just as I am not mu thoughts, I am not my body cells, I am not my clothes, I am not my name, I am not my profession, I am not these feelings, I am not depressed. Depression exists right now there within me i observe it I watch it and let it be. Stop trying to fix it let it be it's all right. You're suffering because you're asleep and you think how wonderful life would be if somebody else changed. We always want somebody else to change, so that we will feel good but has it ever struck you that if your wife changes or your husband changes, what does that do to you? You're just as vulnerable as before, you're just as idiotic as before, you're just as asleep as before. It's you who need to change it's you who need to take the medicine. Life is a mystery, which means your thinking mind cannot make sense out of it. For that you're got you wake up and you suddenly realise that reality is not problematic - you are the problem. When sleeping people swing into action they just substitute one cruelty with another one injustice with another and so it goes on. Because we see people and things not as they are but as we are. That is why when two people look at something or look at someone you get two different reactions. It is not selfish to live your life as you see fit. The selfishness lies in demanding that someone else live their life to suit your taste or your pride or your prophet or your pleasure. That is selfish indeed. When a monkey plays the saxophone, that doesn't make him a musician. Those who know, do not say. Those who say, do not know. Reality cannot by put into a formula. The guru can only point out your errors. When you drop your errors, you will know truth and then you cannot say. Neither of them knows a thing of what they're talking about, because if they did they'd shut up. "That's a nice note you're playing, why don't you vary it a bit like the other musicians?" "Those fools! They're searching for the right note. I found it!" You become happy by contact with reality that's what brings happiness. By a moment to moment contact with reality. That's where you find god, that's where you find happiness. Why is it that I fall in love with one type of person and not another? Because I've got a shopping list. Once you put river into a bucket, it stops being a river. We're constantly somewhere else. "my favourite place is somewhere else" The danger of attempting to change others and to change things if you yourself are not aware is that you may be changing things for your own convenience your own pride your dogmatic convictions and beliefs or just to relive your negative feelings. This for this aloneness you don't go to the desert, you're right in the middle of people, you're enjoying them immensely, but they no longer have the power to make you happy or miserable. That's what aloneness means. so in this solitude your dependence dies and the capacity to love is born, for one no longer sees others as means of satisfying one's addiction. Only someone who has attempted this knows the terror of the process. It is like inviting yourself to die. It is like asking the poor drug addict to give up the only happiness he has ever known and to replace it with the taste for bread and fruit and the clean fresh morning air and the sweetness of the water from the mountain stream. To love persons means to have died to the need for persons. Beauty is a way of looking at things. When speed becomes hurry, that's a poison. You will arrive the day you stop rushing. I had no shoes and I was always complaining that I had no shoes until I met someone who had no feet. What did enlightenment give you? When I eat I eat, when I look I look, when I hear I hear! Get in touch with those sensations in your body and after you've done this for a while be aware of the one who is observing those sensations and say in inner league I internally say I am not those sensations I am not this body then be ware of your thinking those thought that keep going around in your mind and after a while turn attention to the one who is observing the thoughts and say I am not these thought or I am not my thoughts and then become ware of your feelings or recall some feelings that you have had in the past especially in the recent past anxiety depression guilt whatever and after a while turn your attention to the one who is observing those feelings or the one who is recalling the feelings and you say I am not these feelings I am not my feelings you say you are anxious but that is because you have identified with your anxiety I am not my anxiety you say you are depressed don't identify with the depression I am not the depression There is only one cause of unhappiness the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so commonly held that it never occurs to you to question them. What makes you happy or unhappy is not the world and the people around you, but the thinking in your head. Can you describe light to people who have been sitting in darkness all their lives? Inside your head there is a programming a set of demands about how things should be and about how you want things to be. It isn't you who decided how you want things to be. The programming was done by your parents, your society, your your culture, your religion, your past experiences. They are the ones that have dictated to you how the world of things and people should be and what your wants and values and tastes and attitudes and desires should be no matter where you go. Your computer, your programming goes along with you and is active and operating at each conscious moment of the day imperiously insisting that its demands be met by the world by people and by you. If the demands are met the computer allows you to be peaceful and happy. If they are not met the computer generates negative emotions within you even when you are not responsible. For instance, when other people don't live up to your expectations, the computer torments you. It torments you with frustration or anger or bitterness. For another example when things are not in your control or the future is uncertain your programming insists that you must experience anxiety, worry. Then you spend a lot of energy coping with these negative emotions and you generally cope be expending a lot of more energy trying to rearrange the world of things and people around you so that the demands of your computer will be met and you will be granted a measure of precarious peace. Precarious because any moment something a trifle a delayed train a tape recorder that doesn't work a letter that doesn't arrive anything is going to be out of conformity with your computer's programming and the computer will insist that you become upset again. And so you live a pathetic existence constantly at the mercy of things and people around you trying desperately to make them conform to your computer's demands so that you will enjoy the only peace you have ever known a temporary respite from negative emotions courtesy of your computer and your programming. The only reason why you are not reacting calmly and happily is your computer that stubbornly demands that reality be rearranged to conform to its programming. Your negative feelings are caused not by this person but by your programming Absence of inner conflict that among humans is only found in little children and mystics. Look at your life and see how you have filled its emptiness with people as a result they have a stranglehold on you, they control your behaviour by their approval and disapproval they hold the power to ease your loneliness with their company to send you spirit soaring with their praise, to bring you down to the depths with their criticism and rejection take a look at yourself spending almost every waking minute of your day placating and pleasing people whether they be living or dead. You live by their norms conform to their standards, seek their company desire their love, you dread their ridicule, you long for their applause, you meekly submit to the guilt they lay upon you, you are terrified to go against the passion in the way you dress or speak or act or even think and observe how you are just as dependent on them and enslaved by them when you control them as when they control you. For when you grip an object tightly you have gained control of the object but are also controlled by it, for you have lost the use of your hand. But awareness may not be enough for a person whose drug is people. You must cultivate activities that you love, you must discover work that you do not merely for its utility, but for itself. Think of something that you love to do for itself whether it succeeds or not whether you are praised for it or not whether you are loved and rewarded for it or not whether people know about it and are grateful to you for it or not. How many activities can you count in your life that you engage in simply because they delight you and grip your soul? Find them out, cultivate them for they are your passport to freedom and to love. To enjoy a poem or a landscape or a piece of music is a waste of time. You must produce a poem, or a composition or a work of art. Even to produce it is of little value in itself. Your work must be known. What good is it if no one ever knows it and even it it is known that means nothing if it is not applauded and praised by people. Your work achieves maximum value if it becomes popular and sells so you are right back again into the arms and control of people. For love itself has no object, love simply is. It may be activated but it is not created by the presence of others. It arise unprovoked within the heart, then radiates outwards to the world of things then people. You can get someone to teach you things mechanical or scientific or mathematical like algebra or english or riding a cycle or operating a computer but in the things that really matter - life, love, truth, god, no one can teach you a thing. All they can give you is formulas. If you take those formulas you will have not reality, but reality filtered though the mind of someone else. Not truth but someone else's version of it. This applies even to your own formulas. Which will offer you not reality but reality filtered through a mind conditioned by past experience all that the mind can offer is concepts that make sense to the mind whereas reality makes no sense to the mind at all it is beyond the thought it is a mystery and so it must be grasped if it can be grasped at all beyond sort and beyond formulas. It is only in this silence that you will see. And the moment you see the sheer concreteness and wholeness and fluidity of what you see will cause you to abandon every concept which can only portrait reality in an abstract fragmented static kind of way. in that moment of sight you will also drop every formula and book and guide and guru. Think of a little child that is given a taste for drugs as the drug penetrates the body of the child it becomes addicted and its whole being cries out for the drug to be without the drug is so unbearable or torment that is seems preferable to die. Now this is exactly what your society did to you when you were a child. You were not allowed to enjoy the solid nutritious food of life, birth and play and the company of people and the pleasures of the senses and the mind. You were given a taste for the drugs called approval, appreciation, attention, the drug called success, prestige, power. having got a taste for these artificial stimulants you became addicted and began to dread their loss. Hence the control you now feel terror at the prospect of failure of mistakes of the criticism of others. So you become cravenly dependent on people and you have lost your freedom other now have power to make you happy or miserable and as much as you now hate the suffering that this involves you find yourself completely helpless. There is never a minute when consciously or unconsciously you are not keenly attuned to the reaction of others. Marching to the drum of their demands, rather than dancing to the melody that welds up from within your being. When you are ignored or disapproved of, you experience a loneliness so unbearable that you crawl back to people to beg for the comfort. The drug known as support, encouragement reassurance. To live with people in this state involves never-ending tension, but to live without them brings the agony of loneliness. You have lost your capacity to see them exactly as they are. "I leave you free to be your self, to think your thoughts indulge your tastes, follow your inclinations behave in ways that you decide are to your liking" say those words and you will notice something else. The person automatically ceases to be special and important to you when you are able to honestly say those words and he or she becomes important in themselves the way a sunset or a symphony are lovely in themselves. The way a tree is special in itself and not for the fruit or the shade that it can offer you. Your beloved then will belong not to you but to everyone or to no one. Like the sunrise and the tree. Test it be saying those words again. In saying those words you have set yourself free, you are now ready to love. The way someone who has learned to swim seeks water. because each time you are with them, where before you used to feel the oppression and tyranny or negative feelings you now actually feel an ever expanding compassion and the freedom of the skies. That is probably the most terrifying thing a human being can undertake to do - expose himself to reality. Unprotected, unguided by any formula. To walk away from the world and into the desert as the prophets and mystics did is not to walk away from human company, but to walk away from human formulations then even though you are surrounded by people you are truly and utterly alone. What an awesome solitude, that solitude, that aloneness is silence. It is only in this silence that you will see and the moment you see the sheer concreteness and wholeness and fluidity of what you see will cause you to abandon every concept which can only portrait reality in an abstract fragmented way. There is not a single moment in your life when you do not have everything that you need to be happy. What makes you happy or unhappy is not the world and the people around you, but the thinking in your head. you can as well search for an eagle's nest on the bed of an ocean as search for happiness in the world outside of you. The fulfilment of desire can at the most bring flashes or pleasure and excitement. Don't mistake that for happiness. Your own experience should have taught you that pleasure soon becomes wearisome and excitement infallibly leads to boredom. If you wish to attain to lasting happiness you must be ready to hate father, mother, even your own life and to take leave of all your possessions. Not by renouncing them or giving them up, because what you give up violently, you are forever bound to, but rather by seeing them for the nightmare they are and then whether you keep them or not they will have lost their grip over you, their power to hurt you and you will be out of your dream at last out of your darkness your fear your unhappiness. Spend some time seeing each of the things you cling to for what it really is - a nightmare, that causes you excitement and pleasure on the one hand, but also worry, insecurity, tension, anxiety, fear, unhappiness on the other. Father and mother - nightmare, wife and children, brothers and sisters - nightmare, all your possessions - nightmare. Your life as it is now - nightmare. Every single thing you cling to and have convinced yourself that you cannot be happy without - nightmare. Then you will hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters and even your own life, your life as you live it now and you will so easily take leave of all your possessions, that is you will stop clinging and this have destroyed their capacity to hurt you then at least you will experience that mysterious state that cannot be described or uttered. The state of abiding happiness and peace and you will understand how true it is that everyone who stops clinging to brothers or sisters, father, mother or children, land or houses is repaid a hundred times over and gains the state of timelessness called eternal life. The rose has a gift that you like It is perfectly content to be itself. It has not been programmed from birth as you have been to be dissatisfied with itself. So it hasn't the slightest urge to be anything other than it is. That is why it possesses the artless grace and absence of inner conflict that among humans is only found in little children and mystics. Always open and fresh from moment to moment then you will notice a marvelous thing happening within you. You will be flooded with the light of awareness, you will become transparent and transformed will change occur then. In you and in your surrounding. But it will not be brought about by your cunning restless ego that is forever scheming to improve others and yourself. For ever competing, comparing, coercing, serminizing, manipulating in its intolerance and its ambition thereby creating tension and conflict and resistance between you and nature. We're all okay. We're great, there's nothing wrong with us. They put wrong ideas into our head. Somebody did. The world is full of sorrow. The root of sorrow is desire. The uprooting of sorrow is desirelessness. The world is full of sorrow. The root of sorrow is attachment. The uprooting of sorrow means we are proving the dropping of attachments. How does one drop it? One only looks and sees that it is based on a false belief. The belief that without this I cannot be happy. That's false. The moment you see it's false, you're free. Good luck to you. May take you one minute may take you twenty five years, but the day you see it you're free. People hate change. They don't want change. They want progress without change. The picnic gets rained out. Where do you think the upset is? In the rain or in you? In the rain or in your reaction to the rain? Spirituality means to no longer be at the mercy of any event or any person or anything. Maturity is when you no longer blame anyone. You don't blame others, you don't blame your self. You see what's wrong and you set about remedying, do something about it. When somebody insults you, you're not getting upset. When the letter isn't received it's sent back to the air to the man who wrote it or the woman who wrote it. You don't receive it it goes back. Why you got upset be the insult? because you took it! That's why. Silly. Love is not condemning others. Love is understanding. Towards evening he goes to the tree where the Sannyasi is sitting, gives him back the diamond and he says: "Could you do me a favour?" "What?" says Sannyasi. "Could you give me the riches that makes it possible for you to give this thing away so easily?" You're coming to me and you're saying "Doctor it's awful, it really is awful". The I as your doctor I'm saying "You know I'll prescribe something for your wife, okay?" And you are're saying "Gee that already makes me feel better doctor, thanks!". You're having trouble with your wife and you want me to change her? Who's having the trouble? You, right? We'll remove the trouble, the cause of the trouble - you. But they don't understand this, they're brought up to think that everybody else has to change and the whole world has to change for them to be happy. When you're upset your telescope is out of focus when you're upset, your window is blurred.

Got an input filter for solar panels ready made on pcb, now the question was how to fix it into the electrical box. The common mechanical element used is din-rail. The challenge was how to fix this pcb on to it. Here's my make.

click-lock I've checked couple of fuse box elements that I had around for inspiration and found out that they all have different kinds of locking mechanisms. Most of them click-lock in place, one even totally without moving parts only with a single spring. After couple of tries, I was able to lock a plastic block on to the din-rail. Once the moving part is inserted inside, it will snap into two positions - open and locked. attaching pcb onto the flat plate There were M4 holes, spacer, screws and nuts available so I used those. Inside the plastic I've made a special shape that can host a nut and/or can have screw going through it. This allowed for screwing spacer both directions - with pin into a nut or with hole using screw. The latter was needed because the holes on the pcb on the sides did not allow for nut/screw turning around, they were too close to the wall of transformer. So the nut had to be put on the pcb hole hole, then spacer with pin up screwed into it and then the spacer attached with screw from the bottom of the plastic plate. In the middle the spacer pin could go directly into the nut hidden inside plastic and then pcb be fixed with a screw into it - the common way how to do this. spacers At some point I've realized that I have only 4 spacers (black on the pictures), but two pcb and 6 holes to attach. Shopping for M4 spacers would take some time, so I've tried to 3D print some instead and cut thread into them with a good success (white on the pictures). The 3D printed middle spacer was of a new kind - only with a hole through where I've cut thread inside and used screw with countersunk head.

top cover with window To cover the whole think, I've printed a top box which is attached to the bottom with three little notches. I could have printed the box on the top whole, but I've created a window for the future purpose of attaching there different kind of boxes then just a current flat surface. This is how the common electrical din-rail boxes look like - with small middle box on the main body.

terminal connectors And the last thing to solve were the terminal connectors. I wasn't able to find any terminal connectors with a screw that were just as single ones. Only two and three. So I've disassembled them, learned the mechanism and printed new body. I've realised that I could have just cut the three screw terminal ones in the middle to get two single terminals, but hey if you have a 3D printer you print everything, right?

There was a little trick the "professional" terminal connectors use, that I was able to reproduce with 3D printing too and that is that once the screw is inserted into the tunnel/shaft on the top, it can freely move up and down, but can not drop out and will stay there unless force is used from bottom to get it out. This can come in handy with electrical designs so that the screws can never accidentally get loose and drop up into the electronics.

I was also able to print the top round hole in the middle by supporting it with 45° square loft coming from the walls.

The whole thing is on the limit of what detail can be printed with 0.4mm nozzle.

and voi là! Two completely non-standard unique electrical boxes...

We're always bothered by the problem of evil. Story by Anthony De Mello.

There's a powerful story about a little boy walking along the bank of a river. He sees a crocodile who is trapped in a net. The crocodile says, "Would you have pity on me and release me? I may look ugly, but it isn't my fault, you know. I was made this way. But whatever my external appearance, I have a mother's heart. I came this morning in search of food for my young ones and got caught in this trap!" So the boy says, "Ah, if I were to help you out of that trap, you'd grab me and kill me." The crocodile asks, "Do you think I would do that to my benefactor and liberator?" So the boy is persuaded to take the net off and the crocodile grabs him. As he is being forced between the jaws of the crocodile, he says, "So this is what I get for my good actions." And the crocodile says, "Well, don't take it personally, son, this is the way the world is, this is the law of life." The boy disputes this, so the crocodile says, "Do you want to ask someone if it isn't so?" The boy sees a bird sitting on a branch and says, "Bird, is what the crocodile says right?" The bird says, "The crocodile is right. Look at me. I was coming home one day with food for my fledglings. Imagine my horror to see a snake crawling up the tree, making straight for my nest. I was totally helpless. It kept devouring my young ones, one after the other. I kept screaming and shouting, but it was useless. The crocodile is right, this is the law of life, this is the way the world is." "See," says the crocodile. But the boy says, "Let me ask someone else." So the crocodile says, "Well, all right, go ahead." There was an old donkey passing by on the bank of the river. "Donkey," says the boy, "this is what the crocodile says. Is the crocodile right?" The donkey says, "The crocodile is quite right. Look at me. I've worked and slaved for my master all my life and he barely gave me enough to eat. Now that I'm old and useless, he has turned me loose, and here I am wandering in the jungle, waiting for some wild beast to pounce on me and put an end to my life. The crocodile is right, this is the law of life, this is the way the world is." "See," says the crocodile. "Let's go!" The boy says, "Give me one more chance, one last chance. Let me ask one other being. Remember how good I was to you?" So the crocodile says, "All right, your last chance." The boy sees a rabbit passing by, and he says, "Rabbit, is the crocodile right?" The rabbit sits on his haunches and says to the crocodile, "Did you say that to that boy? The crocodile says, "Yes, I did." "Wait a minute," says the rabbit. "We've got to discuss this." "Yes," says the crocodile. But the rabbit says, "How can we discuss it when you've got that boy in your mouth? Release him; he's got to take part in the discussion, too." The crocodile says, "You're a clever one, you are. The moment I release him, he'll run away." The rabbit says, "I thought you had more sense than that. If he attempted to run away, one slash of your tail would kill him." "Fair enough," says the crocodile, and he released the boy. The moment the boy is released, the rabbit says, "Run!" And the boy runs and escapes. Then the rabbit says to the boy, "Don't you enjoy crocodile flesh? Wouldn't the people in your village like a good meal? You didn't really release that crocodile; most of his body is still caught in that net. Why don't you go to the village and bring everybody and have a banquet." That's exactly what the boy does. He goes to the village and calls all the men folk. They come with their axes and staves and spears and kill the crocodile. The boy's dog comes, too, and when the dog sees the rabbit, he gives chase, catches hold of the rabbit, and throttles him. The boy comes on the scene too late, and as he watches the rabbit die, he says, "The crocodile was right, this is the way the world is, this is the law of life." There is no explanation you can give that would explain away all the sufferings and evil and torture and destruction and hunger in the world! You'll never explain it. You're trying gamely with your believes and religions but you'll never explain it because life is a mystery which means your thinking mind cannot make sense out of it. For that you've got to wake up and you'll suddenly realize that reality is not problematic you have the problem.

Today and tomorrow Sadhguru is visiting Vienna to promote his last initiative - Save Soil.

27.3.2022 @Maria-Theresien-Platz waiting... and there he is among the crowd! Video of Sadhguru arriving on a motorbike and being there for a short time and a short speech: Was nice to see him in person, even for such a short time, he has a nice personality. Obviously Sadhguru is a celebrity - comes and goes, protected by the "organizers". Just across the street on Heldenplatz, there was a huge beneficial concert event for Ukraine. In this atmosphere I would like to ask Sadhguru - Why do people always need to save something or someone. Anyway the singing and dancing even after Sadhguru left to the Soil Song was cheerful. 28.3.2022 @Congress-Center

(come together song) (save soil song)

This time a loooong speech from Sadhguru, many of it what can be hear on Youtube, but live is much more alive. I find it interesting that he claims that happiness is a matter of following the manual to our selves. But no one was handing out any manuals out there. The queues to buy green save-soil t-shirts and hoodies were too long so we just enjoyed Sadhgurus talk and went back home. If find his Conscious Plane / Save Soil initiative really practical and way better than any other ecological initiative I've seen so far. So crossing fingers and hoping he'll get far with convincing governments around our small planet.

#Sadhguru #SaveSoil #ConsciousPlanet #;-)

Prusa MK3S+ got a Mini+ sister, here some pictures and notes.

Assembly The only change I did to the original was the way heat-bed power cables are attached. (see commands below Step 21 Assembling the heatbed and/or MK3 style heatbed cover Prusa Mini. Printing Mini+ Base here Prusa blog post about it Little problem Had adhesion, under-extrusion and stringing problems in the beginning. It turned out that I hat the idler tension too tight and I've also had to clean extruder inside and reinsert the PTFE tube as described here. After that I'm having nice prints now. Happy 👍 All in all after couple of months now, I'm happy with the printer. The print volume is smaller 19x19x19cm than MK3S, but not that much and everything bigger takes ages to print so it makes sense to redesign and split into parts anyway.

Constructed rack with 3D printed support elements - only columns and shelves are wooden.

How to run kvm virtual guests using systemctl so they automatically start on boot and stop during shutdown. These will be quick notes, if anything needs more explanation just leave a comment.

Networking Virtual switch for the virtual machines - vde2 + brctl apt-get install bridge-utils qemu-system-x86 vde2 uml-utilities socat net-tools edit /etc/network/interfaces auto tap9 iface tap9 inet static address 0.0.0.0 tunctl_user uml-net

auto br0 iface br0 inet dhcp bridge_ports eth0 tap9 bridge_fd 0 bridge_stp off

create /etc/systemd/system/vde_switch_internal.service [Unit] Description=vde switch for internal connections After=networking.service Wants=networking.service

[Service] Type=forking PIDFile=/run/vde_switch/vde_c.pid Restart=always RestartSec=3s User=uml-net ExecStartPre=+/usr/bin/install -o uml-net -g uml-net -d /run/vde_switch ExecStart=/usr/bin/vde_switch -sock /run/vde_switch/vde_c.ctl -tap tap9 --daemon --pidfile /run/vde_switch/vde_c.pid --mode 0770

[Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target

then systemctl start vde_switch_internal create /usr/bin/kvm-stop-guest #!/bin/bash

if [ "$1" == "" ]; then echo need one argument - guest name exit 1 fi

MON_FILE="/run/qemu-monitor-socket_$1"

if [ ! -e $MON_FILE ]; then echo $1 not running? $MON_FILE not present exit 0 fi

echo shutting down $1 via $MON_FILE

echo "system_powerdown" | socat - unix-connect:$MON_FILE while [ -e $MON_FILE ]; do echo waiting for termination sleep 5 done

lvcreate -L 10G -n HNAME vg0 disk image using LVM or dd if=/dev/zero of=/srv/HNAME.img bs=1G count=10 disk image using file. create /etc/systemd/system/kvm-HNAME.service, replace HNAME, in service name and 2x inside service, for name/hostname of the guest machine [Unit] Description=kvm machine After=network-online.target Wants=network-online.target

[Service] Environment=SN=HNAME Environment=DISKFN=/dev/vg0/HNAME Environment=MACADDR=52:54:00:00:00:01 Environment=SPORT=6900 Environment=SPW=SUPERSECRET Environment=BOOTCDIMG=/var/tmp/debian-11.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso Type=simple Restart=no User=root ExecStart=kvm -drive file=${DISKFN},format=raw,index=0,media=disk -m 1024 -smp 2 -cpu host -name ${SN},process=${SN} -machine type=pc,accel=kvm -monitor unix:/run/qemu-monitor-socket_${SN},server,nowait -net nic,macaddr=${MACADDR} -net vde,sock=/run/vde_switch/vde_c.ctl -vga qxl -spice port=${SPORT},password=${SPW} -display none -boot d -cdrom ${BOOTCDIMG} ExecStop=/usr/bin/kvm-stop-guest ${SN} TimeoutStopSec=60s

[Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target

systemctl start kvm-HNAME and connect to the machine using spicy --uri spice://localhost:6900 once system is installed, remove -boot d -cdrom ${BOOTCDIMG} from service file, reload systemctl and enable both vde_switch_internal and kvm-HNAME to start on system start up.