sadhguru - inner engineering program

my dear readers, as you probably know, i admire the sadhguru for few years now ... how long? well, 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 or inauguration (einweihung) 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, mouth, length of intestinals (darm), ...) good vs. bad food in terms of usefulness for the body (just to make sure: this is not a religious or ethical opinion) => 
• not good: garlic + onions + chillies + coffee + tee = strong stimulus for nerves, thus temporary good, long term bad and thus to use just like medicine and not as food, because you will become unsenstive for life (after that much nerves stimulus) ... other bad food: white sugar, flour ...
• good: indian pumpkin / wintermelon, black pepper, honey (especially with warm water), fruits, nuts, ...
• meat not good for our bodies, fish less dangerous then e.g. mammals, because fish is very far away from mammals (aka us) in the evolutionary chain, 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 (our inner software and even our body and the way we stand / move / behave is our karma .. e.g. if we have learned heavy metal music is a nice music, we will like it. if we would have learned heavy metal is ugly noise, we will hate it => KARMA) ... and yes, we write the book of our life
• gautama (buddha) .... struktur des körpers (atomare & subatomare teilchen), 7 schichten des verstandes, ...
• 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 oooohhhhmmmm, 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 oohhmm?

... 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 (saraswati), proton
• maintenance, A, vishnu, wealth (lakshmi), neutron
• destruction, M, shiva, energy & love+fertility (parvati), electron 
• 72.000 energy lines in our body go through our bellybutton (or more precisely through a chakra which is 2 cm below it) and it is stimulated by AAAAUUUUMMMM
• 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? aaaauuuummmm, 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 days of chapter 7 / 7.

heaven & hell! is that true? difficult to imagine, but yes, maybe true:

• a short facebook story (reels?) abt really bad fate 😇

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 😍

update september 2025: well, i've finished all SEVEN chapters of inner engineering. it means 6  times 2 or 3 hours of yoga excercises + mental training / information and then came the chapter 7: four hours online course on saturday PLUS 8.5 hours on sunday including the shambavi mahamudra kriya deducation / inauguration (einweihung). do i feel somehow different now? did i made any outer body experience? did i turn inwards? did i at least found some inner peace? not yet my dears + on top i agreed to exercise the shambavi mahamudra kriya two times a day (i.e. 2 x 40 minutes incl. the short yoga prep drill) for the 1st 40 days and after that once a day for half a year. these guys believe after that time i'll do it on my own voluntarily like brushing my teeth every morning ... we will see 😂 

as there is not allowed to drink alcohol 8 hours prior to the shambavi and also not to eat/drink too much, i didnt drunk a drop of alcohol since 13 days ... and also lost some weight ... so there are some positive results already, arent they?

well, i start my day at about 6 a.m. with sadhguru's quote of the day and some short motivational speach, then i progress with the 2 minutes inner engineering crash course:

1. all the rules are my rules
2. i'm responsible for everything
3. what is there right now, this cannot be in any other way
4. i'm not this body, i'm not this mind [=> i've huge problems with this one. okay, i've accumulated this body and this mind, but what am i then out of that? some kind of perception (wahrnehmung?) or perceiving presence (wahrnehmende präsenz) as my wife believes in her human life model?]
5. i'm a mother to the world

... only after that comes the prep steps + the 'shambhavi mahamudra kriya' which contains the inner engineering invocation + crash course + yoga + meditation exercise ... after that i switch to my prior life: i brush my teeth, prepare some breakfast 2 go for my office job, cleanup the kitchen, dress something and go out for new experiences in the office + the outside world 🍀😄

btw, 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 😉

plant trees, save the planet and do NOT wait for SOMEONE else :-)

lets plant trees and save the world (not just the climate 😄)

the hot and dry weather seams to be worse and worse every year => lets try to plant more trees and renaturate forests wherever we can. i tried it again this weekend and planted 4 trees in the weakest part of the nearby forest in lochham. as there should be at least some rain in the next few days are the chances to survive for my trees quite good, if you asked me.

my dears, i was so happy to see that at least one of the golden acacia trees i've planted few years ago survived and has grown to a quite big and thick tree left from the chapel below. what a nice feeling 💃

this 4 fellows (maple, spruce, cherry tree & rowan) from our flowerpots & garden place above our subterranean garage (where they couldn't grow much longer) are looking forward to see their new habitat 💚

all my trees will grow close to this chapel in lochham

 let's get ready and ...

... and good luck, mr. spruce & colleagues

 

 they were 170 years here for us. still healthy + producing oxygen we breath. now dead. so sad 😨

 

my dears, thank goodness i'm not alone in my efforts. new zealand wants to plant 1 billion trees to fight the climate change (source HERE), sadhguru motivated 160 million people to plant trees (besides river banks) in his #rallyforrivers action in india (#saveourrivers, i mentioned that action already ... and supported it a little bit financially) and there are many, many people around the globe devoted to saving our planet's resources, you know?

sadhguru

on the way back i've collected some garbage into a plastic bag, so our forest is a little bit cleaner than it was yesterday ...
why am i doing stuff like that? it was a very simple consideration few years ago. i felt that we people cannot continue to destroy our nature and that someone should save it. but WHO is SOMEONE? this simple question helped me to recognize that me, you and all of us should help to improve our natural environment and we should not wait for someone else :-). easy, isn't it?

irgendjemand sollte die natur / die welt retten. WER ist IRGENDJEMAND? ich, du, jeder von uns ... so einfach ist das thema 😇
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böhmerwald = bayerischer wald = sumava (AT, DE, CZ)

same procedure as every time when in neuhaus am inn: my wife visits her friends and i spend the time in the nature in the surrounding NP böhmerwald = bayerischer wald = sumava. my highlight this time were the swimming in half-frozen lake in neuhaus and skiing at geisskopf and in the hochficht ski area at the DE-AT -CZ border

neuhauser see is our favorite lake around neuhaus am inn

look at the ice breaker. where? right down :-)

neuhaus am inn (DE) + inn river + schärding (AT)

 st. florian, austria

 baumgartner brewery, schärding

 geisskopf (DE), 1097m

bischofsmais, the starting point for the geisskopf ski area

 zwieselberg, reischlberg, hochficht (AT)

zwieselberg

reischlberg + hochficht

 

 can you see the alps on the horizon?

hochficht, peak station, 1338m. behind the pylon is the czech republic.

good-bye, schwarzenberg (AT)

indian dinner in haag in obb. (DE)

last but not least, sadhguru + 2 ghosts wanna share their charisma with us :-)

so true, dear sadhguru :-)

more pictures here

our last visit to neuhaus here
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FFF & stand up for nature protection, peace and freedom

friends, let's stand up for nature protection, peace and freedom :-)

there was a demo against climate change at marienplatz + a petition for biodiversity (save the bees) in munich's town hall which my wife and me went to sign on saturday.

save the bees, plant more trees, clean the seas

and there were also sudanese and uyghur people demonstrating for peace and their human rights at odeonsplatz and max-joseph-platz respectively, too. my favorite posters? here we go:

there is no planet B

make earth great again

global warming max +1.5 degrees celsius => act now! ~ climate goals till 2038? are you serious?

system change, not climate change

the uyghur demonstration for freedom

freedom for the sudan

end the silence

late lunch with wife + youngest daughter in traditional pub and former artists' meet up 'alter simpl'

the former satire magazine simplicissimus

we do not only demonstrate for nature protection, we also enjoy to spend time in it. what a nice walk in the nearby forest in gräfelfing :-)

if you asked me, sadhguru's wisdom and his actions for environment (save our rivers) and improvement of human consciousness also helps to save the world. let's listen to him:

more pictures here

my old save-the-planet & save-the-world blog post HERE

addendum april 2014: last but not least, many young people protest in different european countries heavily since few weeks / months. they don't go to school on fridays and stand up for their future. this environment protection action was started in summer 2018 in sweden by the 16-years old Greta Thunberg as a save the climate protest after the so dry summer. greta wants to force sweden to halt the paris climate summit resolutions ...

over time developed greta's protest to the Fridays For Future (FFF) movement where many pupils in many many european countries don't go to school on fridays and stand up for a climate and nature in which they could survive ... just watch the embedded tweet from greenpeace

Du möchtest #fridaysforfuture unterstützen? #GehWählen Die bevorstehende Europawahl ist ein bedeutender Moment, in dem die ältere Generation etwas für die jüngere tun kann. Für eine umweltfreundliche Politik. 💚✊#EUWahl2019 Infos: https://t.co/plVb88PAaU pic.twitter.com/5AvnNvqE8m

— Greenpeace e.V. (@greenpeace_de) April 12, 2019

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