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67 years ago, the Russian soldiers opened the gates of hell in which they were thrown and horribly killed innocent children, women, elderly, in few words, millions innocent souls.
The monster of Nazi-fascism and of “racial” exterminations was born from the disgusting embrace of profound ignorance and fierce hatred, and prospered powered by millions of eyes, minds and hearts of cold indifference.
Indifference and inaction to horrors is the worst horror.
Lest we forget. Never.
Dino Olivieri

What you need:

• an open space or a closed space immersed in silence and tranquility
• a small rigid pillow or a zafu (a circular rigid pillow right for meditation), alternatively a a straight-backed chair
  

  Zafu (座蒲 in Japanese or 蒲团 in Chinese)

• comfortable clothing and if possible in natural fibers
• take off your shoes and (if not too cold) socks

At this point you can start with Increased Zazen Meditation:
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Money is a cancer.
It grows, devours us, as a metastasis.
Now completely detached from the value of life and its useful things, money is flooding in every body and mind with its putrid mud.
As in ancient religions, every moment, we sacrifice to this god evil our good food, clean air, drinking water, our lives, the lives of our children, and love and all the joy of our hearts.
In return for this wicked huge sacrifice, we receive back a handful of his useless black cancer that spews his desperate hatred in the world.

To act and to think in private in a way, and to proclaim in public the contrary, is a symptom of a serious mental illness: it is called split personality, or simply: live in a constant lie.
And as the falsehood, illusion and hypocrisy have become the most common practices in our world that only means that we are, to varying degrees, all mad, crazy and dissociated from the real world.
Think about it.
We are educated, filled up, from an early age, by a thousand streams of fetid pernicious education, to consider good and normal what for real is absolutely crazy and absurd.
We accumulate, we hate our neighbor, we grew in a culture of violence fed by a thousand fears and illusions. We continuously soaked into anger and dissatisfaction, inflate our ego of millions of stupid unreal absurd desires, ruin lives with the cancer of envy.
Unfulfilled we sink in anger and frustration, falling into the black hole of depression.
Everything is normal, perhaps?
It ’s normal a world that celebrates the possession, the power, the strength, the desire and the illusion? Or maybe that world is a thousand times more suitable to beasts than to sentient beings who likes to think themselves “intelligent” and “loving”?
I see this nightmare populated by billions of mad people, and i am one of them.
It ’s a huge effort to lift the lids in the sleep induced by heavy sedation of the mind.
It ’s a hard unspeakable, but I have to awaken.
With all my strength, I HAVE TO AWAKEN!

We are the Whole

Everyone suffers.
We suffer because of our attachment to things, ideas and material goods that have nothing to do with our true essence.

Only the awareness of the whole can give us true happiness.
Only the universal love that flows from it can give real peace of mind.

Everything you own is a burden, it is useful if you still live it with detachment.
All the money you have is an illusion of value, because nothing has more value than awareness and enlightenment.

In front of human wickedness, violence, hatred, anger, ignorance, desire, envy and every negative feeling and emotion that dwells within you and around you, look at yourself and at the world with detachment and compassion.

Watch with compassionate detachment that everything is impermanent: your home, your things, your enemy, hatred and your own suffering.

Spread love, understanding, joy, warmth and positive feelings to sow the power of a Buddha in every human soul.

So lose the attachment to harmful and unnecessary things for your journey to enlightenment of a Buddha.

Dino Olivieri

Buddha Shakyamuni

1. Dukkha, “The truth of the existential suffering”.
Inherent in human life and suffering existential: it afflicts man because impermanence of life situation that comes with it from birth and because of its birth deep in “samsara.”
This existential suffering is revealed and is perceived not only when one sees the inevitability of sickness, old age and death, but even when one is forced into contact with what one does not like such as, contacts, connections, relationships, interactions with persons, things or events that we dislike.
But not only in these cases: the existential suffering is revealed and is perceived even when you are forced to separate from what you love, like when one is deprived of visions, sounds, smells, tastes and tactile sensations desirable, pleasing, attractive, or as when one is unable to obtain contacts, connections, relationships, interactions with people, things or events are responsible for his own good, its well-being, his ease, his freedom from slavery, or finally, where one should be subjected to the forced separation mother, father, brothers, sisters or friends, classmates, family, loved.
The frustration of desires is one of the most common perceptions of “dukkha”, the so-called “existential suffering”.
More generally, the finding that it is done in the “First Noble Truth is that there is in human life suffering associated with existential impermanence of all things, the fact that everything is destined to end.

2. Samudaya: “There is a source of the existential suffering”
Existential suffering is not the fault of the world, nor of fate or a deity, neither happens by chance.
Originates within us from the pursuit of happiness in that which is transitory, driven by desire (trsna, in Pali: ‘ta’ has’ or ‘brama’) for what is not satisfactory.
It occurs in three forms of kamatrsna or ‘desire for sensual objects; bhavatrsna or’ desire to be ‘vibhavatrsna or’ desire not to be.

3. Nirodha: “There is the emancipation from existential suffering”
To experience the emancipation from suffering existential need to let go trsna, attachment to things and people, the scale of values deceptive so what is temporary and more desirable.

4. Magga (Pali) or Marga (Sanskrit): “there is a path of practice for emancipation from existential suffering”.
It is the spiritual path to be taken to move closer to Nibbana.
It is called the “Noble Eightfold Path”.

Bodhidharma, by Yoshitoshi, 1887.

Who is so lucky to be never particularly agitated or anxious?
Sometimes, unfortunately, we happen to face even more critical situations, such as panic attacks, anger, or emotional states characteristic of depression.

If we are able to recognize the occurrence of certain body-mind situations we are already well advanced.
The second step is to try to control these negative emotions positively with, for example, a simple breathing exercise:

1. inhale slowly with the nose counting (within our mind) to 5 and focusing on breath and numbers
2. hold the breath by counting to 5 and focusing on the numbers and the beat of our heart (which soon will be felt calm and deep)
3. exhale slowly through the lips just opened up and counting up to 5 with the mind
4. withhold the emptiness of our lungs again counting to 5
5. repeat to 1 up to a full and satisfactory calm

It’s important that we focus on the numbers, the breath and the heartbeat. In doing so we prevent our minds to think otherwise. This is because it is already hard enough to count, to feel your heart and control your breathing.

When your mind will continue to think of others and especially to thoughts that trigger negative emotions do not be discouraged. View by posting these thoughts pass and deflect attention firmly taking to control the breath, counting and feel your heart.

In repeating the exercise we can lengthen each phase counting slowly or counting up to 6, 7, and how far we want.

External links

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditazione
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditation