just a observance i share this elsewhere
In "Matrix Revolutions" Neo visits the Oracle for the 3rd time and is told by her that the purpose of "The Architect" (ie, 'builder of containers') is to BALANCE THE EQUATION. When Neo asks her what her purpose is she replies "TO UNBALANCE IT!"
It is a commonly-believed fallacy that exercise in and of itself improves our physical condition. The truth is lifting weights does NOT make our muscles bigger. Running does NOT improve our endurance. The truth is strenuous exercise BREAKS DOWN the body. The truth is exercise is a systematic, controlled manner of DESTROYING the body to PREPARE IT TO BE REMADE into the likeness of our choosing. It is RECOVERY (proper food and sleep) that actually rebuilds the body to accommodate the stress of exercise, according to the specifications set by the exercise and our intended objectives. Absolutely necessary to achieving our goals and accessing the benefits of the endeavor is developing a LOVE FOR THE PROCESS, and avoiding a LUST FOR THE END RESULT.
The barrier that comfort/stability in our present state becomes is our own carnal nature/ego fighting to protect its rule over your slumbering True Self and its influence over your body. Here we find a wonderfully applicable parallel in the Biblical teaching on the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus; our old body must disintegrate (death), and while the “dead” body “rests” (burial) the “elixir”, the essential building blocks for the body from our food is fully assimilated/applied to the remnants of the old body, made malleable and workable from the exercise to “rebuild” the body into a NEW body that is more resistant to the stressors of the exercise.
Such is the same with fasting, for fasting is for the mind as physical exercise is for the body. Oversimplifying, fasting is active exercise of our WILL, and in strengthening it, using it to bring the body in tune to the now-strengthened will. Fasting first acts as a means of breaking the ties that bind our mind to murky ethers of the carnal nature; pushing past the barriers that the ego provides to keep us comfortable and complacent (ie, STAGNANT AND RETARDED).
It breaks down the “solid” egoistic notion that the mind exists to serve the carnal self, and then remolds it and “trains” it to suit its proper purpose; to accurately deliver messages to the True Self from the realm of experiences. We must drag ourselves, kicking and screaming, to the bodily realization that the mind does not exist in the physical world, but influences it directly through our bodies. Think on this: the brain needs oxygen; the mind does not, which calls to mind the character “Morpheus” asking “Neo” while inside the Matrix training program “do you think that’s air you’re breathing?” The mind is not confined to the body therefore it is not dependent ON the body. Instead of confining the will to the sluggish vibration of mass mediocrity, the practice of fasting invites us to increase the strength of our will and thereby raise the flesh from a horizontal state of sluggishness to the perpendicular of Vitality.
Peace (Salaam) to My Muslim Brehs & Brehettes
#Gamebred
In "Matrix Revolutions" Neo visits the Oracle for the 3rd time and is told by her that the purpose of "The Architect" (ie, 'builder of containers') is to BALANCE THE EQUATION. When Neo asks her what her purpose is she replies "TO UNBALANCE IT!"
It is a commonly-believed fallacy that exercise in and of itself improves our physical condition. The truth is lifting weights does NOT make our muscles bigger. Running does NOT improve our endurance. The truth is strenuous exercise BREAKS DOWN the body. The truth is exercise is a systematic, controlled manner of DESTROYING the body to PREPARE IT TO BE REMADE into the likeness of our choosing. It is RECOVERY (proper food and sleep) that actually rebuilds the body to accommodate the stress of exercise, according to the specifications set by the exercise and our intended objectives. Absolutely necessary to achieving our goals and accessing the benefits of the endeavor is developing a LOVE FOR THE PROCESS, and avoiding a LUST FOR THE END RESULT.
The barrier that comfort/stability in our present state becomes is our own carnal nature/ego fighting to protect its rule over your slumbering True Self and its influence over your body. Here we find a wonderfully applicable parallel in the Biblical teaching on the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus; our old body must disintegrate (death), and while the “dead” body “rests” (burial) the “elixir”, the essential building blocks for the body from our food is fully assimilated/applied to the remnants of the old body, made malleable and workable from the exercise to “rebuild” the body into a NEW body that is more resistant to the stressors of the exercise.
Such is the same with fasting, for fasting is for the mind as physical exercise is for the body. Oversimplifying, fasting is active exercise of our WILL, and in strengthening it, using it to bring the body in tune to the now-strengthened will. Fasting first acts as a means of breaking the ties that bind our mind to murky ethers of the carnal nature; pushing past the barriers that the ego provides to keep us comfortable and complacent (ie, STAGNANT AND RETARDED).
It breaks down the “solid” egoistic notion that the mind exists to serve the carnal self, and then remolds it and “trains” it to suit its proper purpose; to accurately deliver messages to the True Self from the realm of experiences. We must drag ourselves, kicking and screaming, to the bodily realization that the mind does not exist in the physical world, but influences it directly through our bodies. Think on this: the brain needs oxygen; the mind does not, which calls to mind the character “Morpheus” asking “Neo” while inside the Matrix training program “do you think that’s air you’re breathing?” The mind is not confined to the body therefore it is not dependent ON the body. Instead of confining the will to the sluggish vibration of mass mediocrity, the practice of fasting invites us to increase the strength of our will and thereby raise the flesh from a horizontal state of sluggishness to the perpendicular of Vitality.
Peace (Salaam) to My Muslim Brehs & Brehettes
#Gamebred
another day, was hoping Eid would be tomorrow, but its the 6ixth 
