Adapting to all changes and advances around us is essential and fundamental to surviving and sustaining life. Nevertheless, self-adjustment is not an extension of a willingness to be a slave of change, in a contemporary context; not a continuing whip as a slave of technology, especially gadgets.
For that, especially to keep happiness and peace based on an eternal, at least once a year, alone, I go into the room, turn off the lights to put myself in total darkness, stop eating and drinking and others for three full days, seventy-two full hours. It is similar to Nyepi Day which is actually a Hindu New Year celebration based on the Caka calendar, which began in AD 78. This is a form of fasting and abstinence as did the Catholics during Lent, or also the ummah before Eid. In particular, this fasting is like a recapitulation of my daily meditation or meditation as a lifestyle.
The purpose of this three-day special fast is to cleanse the small realm (human nature/microcosmos) and at the same time maintain harmony with the Great Nature/macro cosmos (universe). It is an attempt to self-denial, and the intention to unite a bit of sacrifice and also to pray for salvation and world peace. All that is done by meditation to drown themselves in love and peace. That’s why I have been inactive for the past three days.
The photo above is a picture of my daughter with her mobile phone in the car when we’ve gone out for dinner after I closed my fasting.
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This is unattainable to me personally. You get it because it’s a way of principles that you follow. I admire you.
I really appreciate your comment, Elenka. As you make a lot of challenges, I also often challenge myself in various ways.
I don’t recommend it to anyone who does not understand the essence to do because it also will not benefit at all.
Except for people who understand the essence and do it right…
I strongly agree, so I want to borrow this popular message; “Don’t do this at home!”
Thank you for thinking so
It is always interesting to read about different traditions Albert.
Thank you very much, Carol. I merely continuing this ancient Javanese wisdom tradition that even today is only done by certain people.
I should think it is dangerous to go without water for such a long time. Aren’t you concerned about renal failure?
I’ve been doing it almost twenty years for at least once a year. This is just one of my fasting forms, and when I do this sort of thing, I focus on spiritual awareness and not on any worries, and I am fully healthy to date.But I do not recommend it to anyone who does not understand the essence and benefits. Thank you so much for your care for me, brother.
Wow. I’ve been assured that your kidneys would shut down after going three days without water. Don’t know how you pull it off…
For that, we need to ask permission and blessings from “some parties” before…
Still, that’s pretty hardcore. Myself, I don’t even want to go three hours without a glass of water
Yes, in daily life, I drink water at least eight glasses a day… but in such fasting, the habit can be overcome. One of the main purposes of this fasting in Javanese called ‘Patigeni’ or turn off the fire is to extinguish the desires and lusts of all ego forms, and the needs are above physical need.
Some months I drink nothing but water, but I drink plenty of it…
Great! It keeps you healthy!
That it does. But I still prefer beer for making art
…and it makes you feel relaxed and comfortable…
It does. And then I’m in the mood to be a little more experimental, after I’ve let my hair down as it were
Apparently, beer and hair greatly affect your works…
A very accurate observation
Even for an observation without looking directly?
Accurate inference or lucky guess?
Could be, indeed I am smart to make a conclusion, but also not refuse to be called a person full of luck… hehe…
It’s smarter to be lucky than it’s lucky to be smart…
Smart or not, lucky or not, you are someone
You’re too kind, even for a brother-in-law
That’s a good assumption from smart and lucky people all at once…
brother.
It is both smart and lucky to have a mermaid for a wife