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I have been away for the last 4 days so I am a bit late with writing the weekly thought for this week, but here it is: Weekly Thought #2: Keys to Freedom.

For this week’s thought I decided to go in depth with one of the Yoga Sutras of Patañjali. The sutra says:

Sutra #1.33: In relationships, our minds become purified by cultivating feelings of friendliness towards the happy, compassion towards the suffering, goodwill towards the virtuous, and indifference towards those considered wicked or evil.

This week I wrote a little introduction explaining this sutra generally. The following next 4 weeks, I want to go in depth with each of these four keys presented in the sutra. They are designed to provide the serious practitioner of spirituality a steady basis in the form of 4 guidelines, explaining you how to approach relationships in a ‘yogic way’. These keys are extremely valuable to every serious practitioner, since relationships can be one of the best covered illusions/distractions out there. That is the reason why I will spend, in total, 5 weeks of my writing weekly thoughts to these keys as presented to us in Yoga Sutra #1.33.

So again, here is this week’s weekly thought: Keys to Freedom

Enjoy the wisdom of this sutra; contemplate on it; and apply it to your everyday life.

Bentinho Massaro –>

Hello everyone,

I added a page to the blog today, a page that is about me. You can get there by clicking “About” on top of this screen, below the logo, in the menu-bar.
You can see it sais: Home Forum About.

Alternatively, click here: About

I added the About page so you can read a little bit about me, the author of this blog and of the mainsite: www.yoga-mind-control.com. I got some comments from people saying that they would like some more personal information in here, or something that let’s people know who the author actually is and what his experience is. So I wrote a small introduction.

Side note: Expect the new thought of the week to be written somewhere in the upcoming couple of days.

Love & Light,
Bentinho Massaro

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As I mentioned in earlier posts about the development of Yoga Mind Control.com, the design of the website was only temporary. I now changed the design to a more finished state. I may change a few things in the future, but For now this is going to be the design. And I like it :). It has an ancient and impressive atmosphere about it. The colors and the top-buddha-image create a mood that perfectly fit the content of Yoga Mind Control, in my opinion. But feel free to give me feedback by commenting on this post.

So go to my main site, www.yoga-mind-control.com and check it out. I just recently changed it, so maybe you first have to hit the refresh button.

Soon I will start to distribute some good articles with backlinks to my site to alot of article-submission websites and hopefully create some serious traffic, visitors.

No other news for now,
Bentinho Massaro

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This week is the first week that I start writing weekly thoughts. This week’s thought is called: Do Nothing and it can be found here:

Weekly Thought #1: Do Nothing

It suggests how we should regularly stop and just do nothing. If we would take the time every day to stop all activities, especially the mind’s, we would see tremendous results in our spiritual awakening. This exercise is a very immediate approach to transcending the mind and the experiences becomes more natural, easy, blissful and enlightening every time you do it. Soon you will be able to stop the mind’s process completely and immediately at any time during the day and eventually in any given situation. (also see: No-Mind Meditation) That’s a sign that we are becoming true masters of our minds and of our lives.

Enough introduction. Go to the link and read this week’s thought! Feel free to comment or ask questions in regard to this week’s thought here.

Love & Light,
Bentinho Massaro

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I will start posting thoughts of the week approximately once every 7 days on this blog adress. These thoughts of the week may consist of inspiring stories, Wisdom Quotes, practical exercises, pieces of contemplation, Meditation Techniques or Wisdom Videos.

I will start with the first thought of the week somewhere in the upcoming days. These thoughts of the week may differ in length and source every week. It might be a few short sentences or a single important quote of wisdom one time, and a more detailed description of a meditation the other time. It might be a suggestion for how to cultivate a certain state of mind/attitude while interacting with other humans… Expect anything.

The first upcoming thought of the week will be: “Do nothing”. If you want to prepare for this thought of the week, I suggest you to read through the meditation section of www.yoga-mind-control.com. It will provide you with a little more basic material so the “Doing nothing” becomes much easier.

The weekly thoughts will be archived here: Weekly Thoughts.

Love & Light,
Bentinho Massaro

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Yesterday evening my female partner (who is joining Dennis and me to India) and I discussed some practical things in regard to our Journey to India. Initially, when I started the Idea of going there, I randomly picked the date of somewhere half of november. I had no specific reason for that decision, just seemed like a good time.

Yesterday we figured it might be a better idea to head for India somewhere in the beginning of Januari for multiple reasons:
One; is a very simple and social reason: If we leave in november, we miss the holiday season (christmass, Newyear) and I thought it would be nice, for the relatives as well, to spend those days here in Holland, to say goodbye in a fun manner.
And two; if we go to India, Rishikesh, in november, we get there at the time that it starts getting chilly over there. Rishikesh lies in the very Northern spheres of India and it can get cold there. If we go there in Januari, the cold winter is about to end and things start becoming more comfortable and warm as the months go by.
A Third; reason is finance. If we go in Januari, it will alow us to save a little more money. The idea of going to India is very recent to my spiritual partner, so she have not had alot of time to save much money and neither have I. We are using our intentions and confidence in the sytem, nature, to provide us with exactly that what we need and more when the time comes, though saving a steady amount of money forms the basis.

With these things in mind I think it might be better to move to India somewhere in the beginning of Januari 2008. New years day will be a nice closure in multiple ways.

Dennis told me that a good friend of ours, Merijn, would like to make such a journey as well, but he is busy with his study at the moment. he will be finished halfway through februari, so maybe he will fly over to India at a later time.

Bentinho Massaro –>

I changed the lay-out of www.yoga-mind-control.com a bit, but this as well is just a temporary lay-out. The left side will change soon, and the logo will probably be changed somewhere in the future. I have been adding content especcially to the Wisdom quotes and Meditation Techniques sections.

Traffic seems to be increasing. Last month the average unique visitors was somewhere around 10 per day. This month that number lies around 25. I intend to keep adding valuable content every week. I have many ideas to make the website more valuable in the near-future.

In time, I will also add some interesting topics for starters on the forum.

Love & Light,
Bentinho Massaro –>