Life is (truly and honestly) what you make it!

Me and Ayelet being silly in the USA

Today's world is so strange to me sometimes... it seems like it has spiraled out of control, but I can only guess that it is the same thought my dad had the day he heard me rock on to Apatite for Destruction album by Guns and Roses…

When I look at the world today, I realize that we are now living in separate time zones, but not the regular "clock-time" wise, but a more inner mental time zone where we are always covered in what we like to see, to hear, to know, to give our attention to, mostly stuff that comes off of screens we own.

When we were born here to this world, each of us to where ever it was when day 1 started here for you, there was a very powerful experience called birth. It was overwhelming for all of us, and we came in here screaming. There was a reason for that.

After that horrific experience we started to ease in to this new place of pain and joy. As we grew bigger and older with time, we could not put things into words or explain or understand because there were no mouth noises that made sense yet… just mouth noises.

Repetitive actions

It took time but what is most amazing here is that it took repetitive actions to make everything happen "automatically" like a habit… like walking, talking, writing, driving, putting on clothes, and all human activities that seem to happen on their own without our meddling, but that is not entirely true… we just forgot the first part of the movie where we had to learn all that by intense focus of the mind and then after billion gazillion repetitions it became "automatic" and now it happens kind of like on it's own.

But that is because you have poor memory… you forgot part one of the movie.

As I grew older with time, I also grew wiser by experience. This is not a given. You need to grow wiser and that means contemplating stuff over and over, trying my best to make sense of it all. That also had a reason.

So basically, I was born empty of abilities and knowledge and only slowly over time with many many repetitions it all became "real" to "me" and all of existence became solid.

When a barrel is empty you can fill it with many things. The things you fill it with will make it what it is. If it is filled with nothing but stinky fluids it will be the most stinky barrel there is and no one will come close to it, if anyone does, they will "pay the price" of stench.

If you fill it with nothing but fragrant rose water and the likes it will smell amazing and everyone would love to just hang around that barrel all day and talk about pleasant things of the world.

Be that rose water barrel.

Because we see time in a linear way and not cyclic as it is, we tend to think linearly too and see the world in that sense. What do I mean?

Your thoughts - your feelings!

I just finished breakfast in the community's dinning hall and sat In front of a very special 18yo woman. She sat there and explained to me why she can not find a good paying job now because of her age, this is what kids her age have to do in the world. Because that is what there is out there for her… she stated that it will take 10 years now for her till she gets to have an interesting job and one that pays good too…  she said all this with conviction in her eyes, she was being very truthful (in her mind) and honest, but in reality? She was just regurgitating "other people opinion" that were given to her as she was growing up… This is not the real world me and Ayelet told her! The real world is the one in your thoughts! And feelings! You give a stamp of approval to a thought by feeling "it is true" and poof!

IT IS TRUE FOR YOU!!!

What a shame…

As it turns out, we are conditioned by our surroundings. The people around us. The media. Our parents. School. Family. Nation. Country. All of our experiences… they determine HOW the world looks to us and how real it is… for us. That is what I mean by personal time zone.

You are now living in a separate state and time zone from all others around you

Your phone shows you what you like to see and mostly? What ever will push your buttons best… like what you hate… Your "social media" device that lives by giving you exactly the things to watch that will leave you "on screen" the longest.

The algorithm of social media used by Facebook for instance figured out long ago that if it shows you what you don't like, you will engage more than if it showed you stuff you like. There needs to be a balance so you will stay connected to the screen longest. It (the algorithm) does not care if the info shown to you is true or false.

It actually learned over time that showing you things that have no truth in them at all but keeps you on screen? It will show you more of that, and you will become convinced that this is true.

But it is only showing you stuff that interests you even if it is false. That is how we became the creatures that we are now. Social media is now full of nonsense that is false and now even AI came in and shit just got real…

We now live in a world where we can not trust our eyes anymore. Stuff Ayelet shows me and I tell her "this is AI. It is not real."  comes on more and more… more and more.

What will become of us? Of this world?

☀ ☀ ☀ ☀ ☀ H.E. Garchen Rinpoche told me for the longest time: "Happiness comes from thinking of others, suffering comes when thinking of yourself only."

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If we all took that one little line and really made an effort to follow, what would happen? Think very seriously about that.

Sitting down for a period of time in silence and spinning a prayerwheel is just doing that. When we have a prayerwheel, we (just by owning one) are already a step ahead in the right direction, because we have an object, a very special object that its only reality is to exist to support your desire to help others.

As you spin your prayerwheel you send out enlightened speech of mantras to vibrate all over the world, in all worlds, in all realms… all for the benefit of all! That is powerful!!!

We live for this reason

We will continue to craft the best prayerwheels we can for the benefit of all beings, so folks like yourself out there who wish to do good in this world before they die would have the best prayerwheel to use for that very same reason!

Not so long ago we were standing at a very special spiritual gift shop in America who just received prayerwheels to sell there. They looked nice, metal decorative spinning drum and a nice wooden handle. But, it was empty. There was no mantra roll in it… just an empty prayerwheel.

If you don't know anything about prayerwheels and you think "oh wow this is a Tibetan prayerwheel!" and spin it, you will accomplish little because there is nothing in it. That is why we take very seriously what we do.

Prayerwheels are powerful when done correctly.

So, if you wish to help this world, spin your prayerwheel for the benefit of others. What you know you only know by what you were "handed" in all forms and "you" believed it to be true. Now your world looks to you as it does. It can change. When you change.    

May we all learn what is real and not false.

May we all see the world as it is.

May we all become the enlightened essence that we truly are.

We love you so much! Thank you for allowing us to fulfill our destiny. That is what we came to earth for! Here are some USA theratrip selfies of us for your enjoyment. Please be responsible.

We need more of you out there! Micha & Ayelet