zugspitze, top of germany, 2962m

my youngest daughter and me were ready to open our ski season this weekend. well, after she read the weather forecast, our team shrank by 50% 😄

i love the zugspitze even if the skiing area is not really good. it is called 'zugspitzplatt' which means flat or weißes tal (white valley) and is mostly in the range 2300m - 2600m. it partially  contains also parts of a small glacier, which is one of the last 4 remaining glaciers in germany, if i remember that correctly. btw, my favorite ski run is down to the bruntal (or brunntal?) which is a valley some 200m further down and unfortunatelly often closed due to lack of snow or the like ...

heaven & hell, was this a crazy skiing at zugspitze! but you know what? even if it was foggy + windy and only 75 cm of snow which is not much and not enough for all lifts up there, at least it was cold enough at abt minus 5° celsius .... down in garmisch it was plus 3° celsius and raining in the morning. what would YOU choose for today? 🍀

enjoy few graphically processed pictures as the original ones would be even much darker & drearier (trostloser)

what an allegory for my skiing today 😂🏂⛆🌋⛄

heaven & hell! what a foggy day!

zugspitze not really in full beauty, top of germany, DE, 2962m

the first rays of hope at lunch time ...

(almost) the full sunny beauty ot the bavarian alp at about 1 pm😃

a ski cottage at 2600m 

historical photographs at the station ~ cogwheel train TO the zugspitze

cogwheel train FROM the zugspitze

picture taken from the train after we came out of the tunnel ~ frozen lake eibsee

picture taken from the train

back down at lake eibsee

the cable car to zugspitze holds few world records (biggest overhype?

 just 1 pylon? highest cable car pylon? ... and the like)

wanna enjoy the zugspitze at a sunny winter day? it is really easy my dears. just move back in time to april 2024 ☃🌋🌞

sadhguru - inner engineering program

my dear readers, as you probably know, i admire the sadhguru for few years now, dont you? how long? heaven & hell, it started already 8 years ago, during our 1st visit to india in 2016. NOW was the RIGHT TIME for me to attend his inner engineering program offered by his isha foundation. btw, the online program costs 150 euro regularly and as a new year's offer right now 105 €. the same program in attendance e.g. in munich, february 2025, 13th - 16th costs 330 €. they teach 2 evenings THU + FRI and 2 full days SAT + SUN. the course language is in both cases english with simultaneous german translation ...

i've just finished 5 out of 7 steps in the online program and i'm going to finish the last pre-recorded step today afternoon [=> DONE ✔] ... unfortunately, there are no free time slots for the 7th and last chapter of my course before my online activation expires. it is most likely some art of final transformation of energy via a live-session which takes 1.5 days ... => heaven & hell, i've just registered for the same program again for the half price (75 euros) and already appointed this energy-transformation 'Shambhavi Mahamudra Kriya' live-session for the end of april, my friends. a good deal, if you asked me, because the online program is quite good and i will have access to it for the whole next year 😃

few considered issues / thoughts in 6 out of 7 steps of online inner engineering: 

• easy yoga excercises for neck, head, backbone, ... upa yoga, yoga namaskar, ... 
• yoga breathing hyperventilation
• isha kriya .. hmmm, i obviosly didnt get a clue what is that and in which part of the program it was taught / excersiced 😇
• i'm not my body and i'm even not my mind. i'm not my body and i'm even not my mind. i'm not my body and i'm even not my mind ...
• everything happens in THIS MOMENT
• what happens in this moment is unchangeable / inevitable
• of course, we can think abt the past or make plans for the future, but we only can live & act in this moment ...
• the concept of responsibility vs. handling => i'm responsible for everything thus my responsibility is limitless. my handling / actions are of course limited (i cant be everywhere at the same time ...)
• happiness = when we get what we want in THIS MOMENT
• sorrow / grief = the life is different as we wish it would be
• pain is not sorrow
• pain is good as it ensures survival of mankind (it is not our intellect or brains, you see?)
• intellect tries to carve (zerstückeln) everything (frog, mouse, man, monkey, ...) 
• intelligence brings together
• the mind / brain increases everything e.g. the picture of an elephant which appears in our retina inside our eyes, our sorrows, ...
• everything what we explore in our life (pictures, sounds, taste, emotions ...) happens inside us. why should we allow s.o. or s.th. from outside to control / determine what our life experience would be?
• food ~ people are born to be vegetarians (teeth, intestinals (darm), ...) good vs. bad food in terms of usefulness for the body (it is not a religious or ethical opinion) => 
• not good: garlic, onions, chillies, coffee, tee, white sugar, flour ...
• good: indian pumpkin / wintermelon, black pepper, honey (especially with warm water), fruits, nuts, ...
• meet not good for our bodies, fish less dangerous then e.g. mammals, because fish is in the evolutionary chain very far away from mammals (aka us), so it cannot override our genetical information
• pesticides, antibiotics and the low variety and low nutrition values of today's food is not good either (... nice red 'quadratic tomatoes' most likely almost without significant nutrition value for our bodies) ~ in 3 generation will the major problem of mankind be the fact, that our own useful bacteria inside us (it is abt 50% of us or some similarly high percentage) will not survive the level of antibiotics we consume with our food
• sleep ... we dont need 8+ hours a day if we just ate good food  ...
• karma, the principle of action and reaction  ... and yes, we write the book of our life 
• a strong master-student-tradition in india for spiritual issues, thus wisdom not affected by the change / evolution of language and / or moral norms
• forget oooommmm, remember AAAAUUUUMMMM ... all sounds equally long(!) 

question: what are the 3 basic sounds you can make without using your tongue?

answer: A (mouth completely open). U (mouth half open). M (mouth closed)

is there any other question regarding oooommmm?

... btw, just try the christian 'amen' without the 'N' or try the muslim 'amin' without the 'N' ... you will get aaauuummm, wont you?

• quantum physics => ??? ask better sadhguru or my wife what was intended by this chapter, not me 😇
• creation, U, brahma, wisdom, proton
• maintenance, A, vishnu, wealth, neutron
• destruction, M, shiva, love+fertility, electron 
• 72.000 energy lines in our body go through our bellybutton (or more precisely through a chakra which is 2 cm below it)   
• nature decides what is possible and not we as we just think that possible is only this what we already know ... while sitting on a chair: is it possible for you to fly away? is it possible to stand up + run away? whats your believe?
• do not decide what makes other people happy
• what life and what kind of world would we like to have? peaceful, happy, joyful ...nice and you know what? IT IS POSSIBLE RIGHT IN THIS MOMENT ... we just need to start behave peaceful, happy, joyful ... => do not wait for 'the others to start', just start by yourself NOW. well, we activists know we are the ones who start to do good things. how to achieve that worldwide? maybe:
• your 1st thought every morning: today i will create a peacefull world ... if you are friendly to others, then (almost always) will the others be friendly to you, isnt it? do / dedicate your life to s.th. what is important & valuable. do not waste your life by doing boring / unneeded stuff just to pay your bills ... than better do nothing, be friendly and in sadhgurus ashram in south india you will get 2 dishes a day for free. joyful people spread joyful mood
• if everyone is friendly to all other people, so the whole world will become a friendly / peaceful / joyful place, wont it?
• did i became a better person after 6 out of 7 chapters of sadhguru's program? aauumm, the time will show 😇 i'm definitely going to do the energy transformation live-session in april. most likely i will update this blog post right after that again and tell ya the results / opinions after the two long session days ...
• etc

what abt a long + interesting + funny interview between boxing legend mike tyson and sadhguru?

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#metoo .. have been there, it was nice ...

soooo, my 2nd trial. wtf? 2,500+ new participants PER WEEK?

sadhguru is going to save the planet SOON 😍

... MORE COMING SOON ... or never?

enjoy also my 2nd blog abt sadhgurus opinion on mother earth and even more screenshots aka wisdom + advice in my corresponding and continuously enhanced google album.

snowy czech republic, CZ

at our way from the polish baltic sea back home to munich, we've visited few sites in the czech republic (bohemia + moravia), CZ:

• nachod (moravia) ~ we have been to nachod castle 3 years ago, today we've visited nachod's city center
• brandys nad labe = brandeis an der elbe (bohemia) - a small city with a quite nice castle and quite ugly market square at the labe river (elbe) ... btw, brandeis could be translated from german as 'burning ice' => just see the pictures of the 'icy ice' road between brandeis and liblice and our car in the trench (graben) below ⛄🚗🍀
• liblice castle (bohemia) - my wife liked our stay here last summer that much that i couldnt book any other accomodation for the stop over. this time we have been in the main castle building, so i could at least to some point experience s.th. new here 😄

ice on the road close before our final destination liblice castle 😨

it will be dark soon ...

liblice castle (hotel)

marble hall, liblice castle, CZ

restaurant

nachod, market square

nachod, town hall

do you see the nachod castle above the city?

brandys nad labe ~ brandeis an der elbe, CZ

labe river (elbe)

market square + town hall, brandys ~ brandeis

some village on the road between brandys and liblice

babylon, sumava (böhmerwald) mountains, CZ-DE border

back home in bavaria ...

3,000+ km in 3 weeks? heaven & hell ... let's recapiltulate the other stops:

• carlsbad - karlsbad, CZ
• wojanow castle (schloß schildau) in lower silesia, PL
• lodz + ruda bugaj + alexandrow lodzki, central poland, PL
• swiece (schwetz an der weichsel) ~ castle of the german order / teutonic knights at the wisla river (zamek krzyzacki, deutschordenschloss) + nice city center. anyway, if you can, visit better the  just 100 km distand teutonic marienburg (malbork) castle 😉
• leba, baltics, PL
• tczew nad wisla ~ dierschau an der weichsel, PL
• kluczbork ~ kreuzburg ~ creutzburg ~ creuzburg in upper silesia, PL
• moszna castle ~ schloss moschen (hotel) - close to opole (oppeln), upper silesia, PL

very few more pictures from liblice + brandys + nachod  here.