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<[[Yoga]] [[File:Pashupatahasta.JPG|thumb|500px|Blessing of the Yoga God Shiva]]

'''In a playful way, we learn the main principles of Yoga. Basically, the Yoga oracle is a game which helps us toward positive principles of life and strategies of wisdom.'''

The Yoga oracle consists of 180 single oracle statements. They can be found via a [http://www.random.org/ '''random generator''']. Simply enter numbers 1 through 180 and click on generate. You can print and play it with friends (left). Interpret the Yoga oracle always by the principles of truth and love. The message must correspond to your inner truth and be helpful for you.

[[Category:Psychology]][[Category: Religion]]

== Yoga ==

1. [[w:Yoga|Wikipedia:]] ''"Yoga refers to traditional physical and mental disciplines originating in India. [[w:Patanjali|Patanjali]] systematized the conceptions of Yoga and set them forth on the background of the metaphysics of [[w:Samkhya|Samkhya]]. Samkhya is one of the six schools of [[w:Hindu philosophy|Hindu philosophy]] and classical [[w:Indian philosophy|Indian philosophy]]. The Samkhya school is dualistic (God and nature exist). [[w:Advaita Vedanta|Advaita Vedanta]] (non-duality, only God exists) is considered to be the most influential school of Hindu philosophy. [[w:Vishishtadvaita|Vishishtadvaita]] Vedanta is a sub-school of the Vedānta. Vishishtadvaita is a non-dualistic school. It is non-dualism of the qualified whole, in which Brahman (God) alone exists, but is characterised by multiplicity.'' In consequence the Advaita Vedanta says that only enlightenment is important. Vishishtadvaita and Samkhya say, that Enlightenment (God) and a good wordly life is desirable. We have to work for a happy world and our own happiness. These are the two fundamental spiritual positions.

Before you opt for a particular style of yoga, you should consider what you're looking for. Do you want strenuous exercises (stretching, muscle building, bodystiling) or relaxation (stress reduction, health, peace)? Sporting challenge you will find with Power Yoga, Ashtanga Yoga, Iyengar Yoga and Kundalini Yoga. Relaxation you can find in the normal Hatha Yoga and in the Vini Yoga. Try out what is good for you. Ultimately, every yoga teacher's has his personal style. Learn from any yoga teacher. Find your own way to practice yoga. And above all, always stay on your path of truth and wisdom. Don´t give up your mind on the door to spirituality.

Oracle = Realise yourself! What do you want to achieve in your life? What are your goals? Feel exactly into you. What does your inner wisdom say? You find your way by combining your clear thinking with a good inner feeling for yourself. Go the way of your inner wisdom. Your inner wisdom will guide you to your true self, to self-realization and inner happiness. Who's going consitent the way of his inner wisdom, has the feeling to be on the right track. He feels good with himself and his life. Are you on the right track?

== Saving the world ==
[[File:Mariatu.jpg|thumb|Mariatu without hands]]
2. I (Yogi Nils) regular donate for UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund) and many other charities. As a result I often get information brochures. Yesterday, a newsletter of UNICEF was in my mailbox. It told of the suffering in the world and also of the many people who are committed to helping. I was particularly impressed by a report of an African girl. The small [[w:Mariatu Kamara|Mariatu]] were at the age of twelve years chopped off both hands by soldiers as a cruel game. She then begged in the capital of Sierra Leone to her livelihood. Despite her cruel fate she did not give up. She played with a young theater group.  Thus UNICEF discovered her, and today she lives in Canada with a foster family. She has written a book about her life (Mariatu Kamara, The girl without hands) and was appointed UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. As a former victim of war, she is now working against war and for the protection of children.

About [[A World of Peace, Love and Happiness|one billion people around the world are starving]]. In the Western world, about 30% suffer from mental problems. The causes are the great pressure to perform in school and work, and the lack of love between people. There is plenty to do in the world. We need a lot of warriors of light. A happy world is possible. The world is rich enough to feed everyone. The science of happiness is available.  Let us save the world. Let us do what is possible for us. Many small drops of water can become a great rain, which brings the world to bloom.

Oracle = Help in building a world of peace, love and happiness. What can you do? Walk the path of all-embracing love and grow into the light. Move a hand in blessing and think, "I send light to...(name). May all people be happy. May the word be happy." Success!

==TV Meditation==
[[File:Nasa blue marble.jpg|thumb|300px|May love, peace and happiness on earth.]] 
3. If we watch TV every day it is difficult for us to stay on the path of inner happiness. The [[Happiness_and_Life#The_Western_consumption_television|happiness research]] has clearly established that much TV consumtion leads to unhappiness. It causes attachment, aggression, fear and unwisdom. Not the outer pleasure but the inner happiness is the center of life. We need love, peace and spirituality to get a happy life. When we watch television, we should be aware of the negative influences. We should wisely select our television programs, watch only little or no television (one hour a day) and cleanse us spiritually after each television (self-reflection, spiritual reading, meditation, walking).

1st Globe = We visualize the earth beneath us, rub the earth with our feet and think, '''"May all beings be happy. May the world be happy."'''

2nd Television = What man on television today touches you negative or positive? Clean the energetic connection, visualize him as a Buddha. Give him a positive sentence. Aggressive people you can send wisdom and inner peace. With happy people you can rejoice. Suffering beings you can give light and strength. Think the sentence as a mantra until you have overcome all attachment or rejection. Everything you see outside makes a knot in your soul. Create harmony in your mind. The first step to happiness is a positive world in your mind. We move a hand and send all the people in the television light: '''"I send light to .. I wish him / her wisdom, love and happiness. May all people on TV be Buddhas or Goddesses of love."'''

3rd Mantra = We put our hands together in the lap, move our feet and think many times the mantra '''"Om Shanti"''' in our body, in our legs and in the whole world. We stop a minute every thought. We relax. '''Practice love, peace and wisdom. Send every day all people light. This is the way to become enlightenment und to live in the light (in happiness, in God).'''

Oracle = Stay with perseverance on your way of wisdom. Live as a winner. Reach your goals. "My goals are ... My way of a fulfilling life is ..." Success.

== Arrived ==
[[File:Blumenhaus.JPG|thumb|200px|Hut Yogi Nils]] 
4. For 24 years I live now in seclusion as a yogi. Before that I was a lawyer, had a family, many friends and stayed in the city center. The relationship foundered after 12 years. I took the great change, gave up my law career and went into my little house in the woods. Today I arrived at me and in my life. The separation from my wife was the hardest decision of my life. I have mourned for many years. Inwardly, I refused to accept my life as a yogi. I was always somehow mentally in my former apartment in the city. I had to dissolve the blockage. On the way of yoga dissolves everything. Normally the tensions are resolved by constant meditation, walking, reading, yoga and karma yoga (doing good work for a happy world). Some tensions require a little extra mental work. If you mentally focuse on the core of a tension that is connected with a neurotic thought pattern, blocked emotions appear and the soul can be freed. This often happens in situations of suffering, if you don´t repress the emotions. Then appears repressed pain and can be released. You  just feel into your problem and think about it. Then meditate on the feelings of  longing, sadness, anger, or fear for so long, until they disappear on their own.

Last night I suddenly had the idea to visualize me in my old room in the city. Then I walked mentally to my present location. I visualized me in my yogi hut as a secluded yogi. I thought about how to accept my new life. I concentrated on my spiritual goals. I accepted my suffering. I found a way to feel good in my life as a yogi. I developed for myself a moderate spiritual path with much pleasure. By this I broke up the blockade. The whole night flowed cleaning processes through my body (heat, cold, restlessness, dreams). In the morning I felt myself arrived in my current life.

Oracle = What is your mental core problem? What solves your problem? How can you arrive in your life? What do you need to feel well in your life? Give it to you. Success.

== Rightness ==
[[File:Nils Shiva.JPG|thumb|Shiva statue of Nils]]
5. A venomous man in a philosophy forum has stated, that I have failed at life. Therefore, I had become a yogi. He intended to hurt me. I took his statement to think about my and my life. I felt into the depths of my soul, but I could not find the term "failure", but the feeling of "rightness". My path of life has developed alright in my opinion.

One could say, that my former relationship has failed. Relationships can fail. This happens often in this day and age. This is a tragedy, when you see the meaning of life in a good relationship. This is not a drama, if you see the meaning of life in enlightenment (in God). From the perspective of  enlightenment it can be spiritually very happy if a secular path fails. As a yogi, one is growing fastest to enlightenment. Life forced me to grow quickly on the spiritual path. What could be wrong with that? A person with a great wisdom would cheer.

In yoga, there is the path of the four stages of life. In youth you learn. Then you work, marry and have children. If the children are grown up, you retire to the spiritual practice. At some point you are then enlightened, and you have a happy old age. After the death an enlightened automatically goes over to paradise. The four stages of life show us a way to a fulfilled life. 

Oracle = Everything is correct, as it is.

== Nils and the Women ==
 [[File:Bologna marriage.jpg|thumb|250px]]
6. A little story from my life: Nils met Evelyn in a dance club in 1971. Evelyn had blond hair and large breasts. Nils paid more attention to the outer appearance than the inner quality of women back then. Evelyn’s looks were very much to his liking. Evelyn was searching for happiness in the context of a relationship. She was searching for the man of her dreams. For a time, she thought Nils could be just that man. Nils also tried to fulfill this expectation, but became overwhelmed after a time when attempting to live up to Evelyn’s idea of a perfect relationship. It’s hard to believe, but Nils wasn’t perfect. He was particularly inattentive when it comes to external things, and that annoyed Evelyn after a time. 

Evelyn studied to become a foreign language correspondent. She had a difficult family life growing up as her parents had constantly quarreled with one another. She wanted love, affection, and a feeling of security. She hoped to find these things with Nils that she had lacked in her family and herself. Evelyn visited Nils often. They went dancing together, talked a lot, and were affectionate and physical with one another. After a half a year, they had sex for the first time, then again and again and more and more often. They wrote love letters to one another. A particularly lovely sentence from Evelyn read, “life is like a strong current. Everyone tries to hold oneself above water. Many do this alone, and others have someone they can hold onto. That is a wonderful gift.”

In their first year together, Evelyn and Nils were very much in love. That is normal. In the second year, they weren’t quite so smitten. That is also normal. In the third year, they began to fight a lot. That is unfortunately also quite normal in today’s world. Evelyn and Nils noticed that their relationship had reached a critical phase. They recognized that they had come to a turning point and that something needed to be done.  That was no easy task. Many couples first wake up to the reality of their situation when they first fully recognize the negativity that has rised between them. Then it is often too late to do anything about it. Those who can change their relationship dynamic in time, can often hold onto a long term happy relationship. But what exactly is the way to attain this long term happy relationship? 

Evelyn and Nils tried to communicate better. They bought books about positive relationships and worked through these books together, but it didn’t help much. The center of their difficulties lay with the fact that Evelyn expected Nils to live up to the demands she placed on him to be the man of her dreams. She expected him to make her happy on a deep level. Evelyn did not search for this happiness within herself. Those who cannot find happiness within themselves, need a partner to fill this void. Those who cannot be independently happy need extra happiness from the partner and often therefore overwhelm their partner with such a heavy burden. Evelyn and Nils didn’t know the way to achieve a happy relationship. A relationship often tends to be a sort of dependency, where those involved expect something from the other. They want love, sex, affection, security. When the relationship depends on wanting, the feeling of love becomes cramped and a constant power struggle ensues. The person who can fight the best gets the most. Love doesn’t stand a chance in such a situation.

In the beginning of a relationship, the constant need for love is normal. When the relationship becomes long term, it must be based on a more spiritual foundation. The basis of the relationbship needs positive characteristics such as wisdom, love, peace, and thoughtfulness. We need to anchor ourselves in a goal of inner happiness and not expect the partner to provide happiness. Often, we depend on outer happiness instead of looking for it within. We must find this within in order to provide positive thinking and a love based on giving. When we can live our relationship destinies out in such a way, we can be happy in the long term. We can grow in happiness and in love. A sort of love addiction burns out after a time. A love based on giving is true love and can grow without bounds. A pure heart chakra can open the individual up to the highest plain of enlightenment, until we are only love itself, and as such live love and radiate love into the world. 

The way of superficial happiness is based on the tendency to expect to be happy through another person. This is the way of “addiction”. This means it is only destined to end in failure. Those who expect happiness from others will only be disappointed. At some point in time, the “honeymoon” phase is over and both people will revert to their usual tendencies. Most people blame the partner for their lack of happiness. They begin to fight or to draw back in frustration. We need to overcome this faulty philosophy of superficial happiness. Then we can live in long term happy relationships. Evelyn got her ideas about the perfect relationship from Hollywood. Nils based his ideas on the psycho-analytic theories of Sigmund Freud. Both of these notions were incorrect and lead to unhappiness. Most actors , who live in the world of film, have unhappy relationships and split up constantly. The same goes for psychologists. The best relationships are to be had by those who care for the relationships with spirituality. 

Instead of exercising positive thinking, Evelyn concentrated on Nils’ personality flaws. A spiritual person busies him or herself only with his or her own flaws and concentrates on the positive characteristics of others. The Yoga greeting “namaste” means: “the light in me recognizes and bows to the light in you”. Those who see positivity in others thereby awaken their own happiness. Those who fixate on negativity strengthen the negativity in themselves. Evelyn saw the negative traits of Nils and this often enraged her. In the third year of their relationship, they had intense fights. Nils tried to understand what was going on. The sweet Evelyn had turned into a not so sweet individual. At some point, Evelyn began to see other men and Nils search for another woman. The happy fairytale came to a sad end.

Oracle =  Anchor your relationship with a positive principle. Find a suitable name for this higher principle. Call it love, truth, spirituality or God. Connect yourself regularly in all beautiful and in all difficult situations with your higher principle. Live in the center of your relationship from your higher principle. Take your partner as he is. Everyone has strengths and weaknesses. No man is perfect. Love means to love your partner with his weaknesses. Move a hand in blessing and think, "I send light to (name). May all people be happy. May the world be happy."

==Happy Family==
[[File:Munneswaram Shiva family.jpg|thumb|300px|Shiva family. Ganesha (happiness), Shiva (wisdom), Parvati (love), Murugan (peace) and the sacred bull Nandi (strength).]]
7. In modern times we are experiencing a breakdown of families. The normal case is separation, strife, selfishness and aggression. Education is hardly taking place. The education is taken over from the television. It educates children predominantly to negative values. They follow the false ideology of the outer happiness and thereby destroy their inner happiness and the happiness of their family. Families lack the path of inner happiness. 

The basis of a happy family are positive values. These positive values must be fostered and promoted. This is in today's life no easy task. Most people are influenced by the negative values of television. A positive life in a predominantly secular society requires of us daily inner work. A wise education is neither too harsh nor too freely. It sets clear boundaries and gives the child at the same time sufficient space for self-determination. In the long term the goal is to let the child find his own way, yet also assume the responsibility as a parent to a positive upbringing.

The greatest gift we can give our children is a spiritual upbringing. We give them the knowledge of the path of inner happiness. We make them masters of life. We empower them to a happy and positive life. Spiritual people are happier than unspiritual persons. In our spiritual practice it is important that we keep in touch with our inner truth. The daily practice should not be an empty ritual. We can often creative find new words and try new exercises, so the feeling is real. Only true feelings cause spiritual growth. Only mantras with true emotional involvement lead us to self-realization.

Oracle = Foster positive values. The most important values are love, wisdom, selfdiscipline, inner peace and happiness. Work with a spiritual role model. Ultimately, the model gives us the strength to go a long-term path of positive life. Most people need the inspiration of a positive role model. Each model includes positive stories. Often it is the stories that make a child related to a particular model. Have a happy family. What can you do? Find a family vision. Create positive rules in your familiy. What is your spiritual role model ([[w:Gautama Buddha|Buddha]], [[w:Jesus|Jesus]], [[w:Shiva|Shiva]], [[w:Rama|Rama]], [[w:Krishna|Krishna]],  [[w:Durga|Durga]], [[w:Saraswati|Saraswati]], [[w:Lakshmi|Lakshmi]])? What is your deed for a happy world family? Success.

==Enlightenment==
8. [[w:Enlightenment (spiritual)|Enlightenment]] can not be forced. It comes naturally to its time of grace. All what you can do, is to make consistent your spiritual exercises. It is only important, that one is on the right way for himself. At the age of 36 years, I became a yogi. The first fifteen years were difficult. I had many spiritual crisis. 2003 was the last great crisis of cleaning. Four weeks day and night I was under electricity. My body was burning so much, that I hardly needed a blanket, although it was winter. Then God switched off the power. 

Since that time I am in a constant process of purification and growth. It feels like as if in me is circling an energy that cleanses all areas of the body. In yoga it is called the circling of the Kundalini energy (the serpent of Shiva). The cleaning power is metered, so that it cleanses me every day in just the right speed. It calls me every day up to my limit. If I could make a wish, I would want to grow less quickly. Unfortunately, God doesn't interest this desire. He argues, that I have to grow quickly, so that I can fulfill my life mission.

Every week I have my spiritual crisis. But I can handle it. I take saving the world more important than my own little problems.  I regulate myself with my spiritual practices. If necessary, I eat lots of sweets, watch TV or surf on the Internet. I make a long walk. So I come quickly into the light. Suddenly the little yogi laughs again. But the next crisis will surely come. I believe that life on earth is a constant cleaning path. Even after enlightenment the cleaning continues. The universe is so big that you can grow forever spiritually. And if you have saved yourself, then you can still save your friends and the whole world. In positive terms: "As Yogi you will never get bored."

Oracle = A crisis. Forward! Stand up again. What is your goal? What is your way to victory? Success.

== The Big Storm ==
[[File:Baum im Sturm.JPG|thumb]]
9. Three weeks ago there was a big storm. A huge fir fell from the neighboring property right in the middle of the roof of my little hut. I have a pitched roof with a slight slant. The fir tree fell exactly with the helix angle of the roof on my house. Thus there was a big bang, but the weight of the fir spread throughout the entire width of the roof. The optimal pressure distribution prevented the distruction of my house. Even all the roof beams remained intact. Only the roofing felt (corrugated roofing sheets) was torn to shreds by the fir branches. It rained just above my bed into my house. So I got a nice free shower. After the storm came a heavy rain. It was splashing on my bed like out of a tap. 

The bed was immediately drenched. I pushed it into another corner of my room and put a bucket under the leaky spot. I felt like the poor poet of the famous painting. A poor writer sits in his bed with a stocking cap, a book in one hand and an umbrella in the other. Outside the storm raged. The night was black. My bed was wet. The house was broken. And the little yogi was remarkably peaceful. He took it calmly. Shit happens. It can happen in the great cosmos, that a tree falls on a house. Even little lovely yogis are not spared. Astonishing but true.

Oracle = Your path is difficult, but you will conquer. You have a good feel for the right track. Go your way constantly in good contact to your inner wisdom. What is your goal? What is your enemy (internal or external)? In what way can you achieve your goal? God makes you today the gift of success. Put your hands together and think: "Om all enlightened Masters. Please guide and help me on my way." You will win. Forward with optimism. Success.

== After the Storm ==

10. I sat in my wet bed. The night was still black, but the storm abated slowly. I wondered what to do now. So I always do when there is a disaster: keep a clear head and do what is necessary. You can excite yourself later on.The bucket was placed under the leaking roof. I could repair the roof only tomorrow. Now it was dark and still raining a little. The neighbor was not informed. Therefore  I trudged in a rain jacket and sturdy boots through the dark night to the neighbor. The house of the neighbor was behind the fir trees about five hundred meters from my house near a river. The water swelled mightily, but the house stands on a hill above the seething waters.

I rang the strong cast-iron bell that hung on the door of his wooden house. It took a while, then a sleepy figure lumbered towards the door. The door opened a crack. The neighbour asked me to come in. I thought about how to prepare my story interesting. I gleefully told him: "You do not need to scare." He was shocked and asked: "What happened?" I replied, "Nothing. Bad only one of your firs has flattened my hut." He gulped in shock. But I reassured him: "That was a joke. Only the roofing felt is broken and it's raining in my bed." Thereupon his features relaxed. Normally, my neighbor is very calmly and I'm always excited by any disaster. This time I wanted to make it a different way. But  he was somehow not in the mood to joke. He did not have much money. And there would  significant costs accrue to him, unless we could settle things in common. Luckily I'm a nice person with whom you can discuss everything amicably.

Oracle = After the crisis. Concentrate on the positive. Build yourself back up. Forward with self-discipline. Success.

== The Fir is Sawn ==

11. My neighbor is a completely different person than I am. He lives a very secular life. He is 35 years old and spends his days watching TV, playing on the computer or drinking alcohol, if he does not just have to work. He has no girl friend. He is single as I do. Right now he has been unemployed for six months. He lives on welfare aid and often meets with his friends to drink and to fete. So you can live, although I prefer a life as a yogi. 

We decided to wait until the next day and then to consider carefully the damages. The night was a little uncomfortable because of the wet blanket and the noisy raindrops falling into the bucket. But the next day the storm had passed, the rain no longer drops into the water bucket and outside it was bright. At last an exciting day in my uniformly yogi life. How strong the roof would be damaged? Would we be able to remove the fifteen-meter fir from my roof? I got dressed, breakfasted comfortably and then climbed with a ladder to the roof. A beautiful big tree with lots of fir cones was there, but unfortunately at the wrong time, wrong place. But I could change that. I got my chainsaw out of the house, turned it on and sawed with great noise the huge tree into small pieces. What needs a man more than a chainsaw to feel himself like a man. It lacked only the women who stood down in front of the house and clapped their hands in admiration. And then feasted the exhausted artisan with coffee and cake. 

Sometime in the early afternoon my neighbor got up and came to help with his chainsaw. Every real man has a chainsaw. With mild derision, I noticed that my neighbor's chainsaw was smaller than mine. Regardless, a chain saw is a chainsaw. The mighty tree quickly became a miserable piece of firewood. I kept the top of the fir for Christmas. Even disasters can be cleverly used for a spiritual life.

Oracle = In every life there is suffering. We have no claim to a long life, and also not to be spared from disasters. What is your suffering today? What is your positive thought? "My positive sentence is ..." Everything will turn out well. Forward with optimism. Success.

== A Cheeseburger for a Vegetarian ==

12. After we had removed the fir from the roof, we examined the defects in the roofing felt. The fir branches had torn huge holes. I decided to buy five plates of roofing felt. Luckily, my neighbor has a big car. As it could start to rain again at any moment, we drove off immediately to a construction market. A man's paradise. There are also the largest chainsaws. But we already had two saws,  I a large and my neighbor a little. We went to the roof section. Unfortunately, the roofing felt was sold. In one week, the store manager could have had a subsequent delivery. That me was a too long time with holes in the roof. The store manager was very enterprising and told us, that half an hour's drive away lies a further construction market. He phoned his colleagues and made sure we could get there immediately the roofing plates. So we headed to the neighboring village. Normally, I keep a short conversation with my neighbor. Now it was the time to get to know ourselves thoroughly. I told him that I was living as a yogi and that I rescue every day the world on the Internet. He could start not much with the term yoga. For enlightenment, he was not interested. It was enough for him if he had to drink something every day. Life after death? This idea he found pretty funny. I explained that I could save him after his death, if he would think of my name as a mantra. He would think about it.

The discussion became interesting for him as I told him, that yogis usually eat no meat. A life without meat, he could not imagine. In addition to the alcohol life must still have another sense. After all, he had heard, that it is unhealthy to eat too much meat. He decided to reduce his meat consumption perhabs. First, the debate aroused his appetite, and we stopped at McDonalds. Now my neighbor could surprise me. He showed me the Drive In and operated perfectly with all the announcements. He ordered two cheeseburgers for himself and a cheeseburger for his vegetarian yogi friend. Before this, I had told him that I am an undogmatic yogi. An undogmatic yogi may sometimes hit over the traces. I was thereupon immediately likeable to him. We munched delightfully our cheeseburgers and talked about the benefits of a vegetarian lifestyle.

Oracle = Today you are allowed to be lazy. Make yourself the life beautiful. Do what you like. Enjoy the day. What makes your mind today positive? Bring much joy into your life today.

== The Roof is Nailed  ==

13. The construction market had many roof plates in stock. We put it into the car and were back home in the evening. The next day the weather was kind enough to be dry. After getting up I began immediately with the roofing. I removed the leaves and the moss layer. Then I layed the roof panels and bonded it with tar. The adhesive was more fluid than I thought, and after a while I was more tarred than the roof. In addition, some tar dripped me on my head. At the end I was completely glued and smeared. Luckily I was dressed with old stuff, that might be dirty. I cleaned myself with a brush as far as possible, and then waited a few days, so that the tar could come off from my skin by itself. Good thing that my ex-wife did not see me so polluted. And also my mother did it not. Why must women always be so exaggerated clean? A man looks good with tar spots on the skin. He looks like honest hard work, dirt and good sex. Why I'm thinking about good sex? A yogi should not have such thoughts. After almost ten years without a girlfriend, I do not really know how women look like. I've apparently forgotten but not quite, that there in life other things as yoga and meditation. Also, I'm not a dogmatic yogi. Listen, you women!

Oracle =  Rejoice the fullness of life. Enjoy life. Think positive. Who lives in the light, can laugh at everything. Who is rooted in the spirituality, needs to worry about anything. Everything is correct as it is. So be positive, optimistic and cheerful. Do not take anything too seriously. Live the good mood. Eat sweets until you are happy. Or do something else nice. Bring so many beautiful things in your day, that the laughter is in you.

== The Next Fir ==

14. The next day it rained again. My eyes turned anxiously to the fir trees standing on the neighboring property. One fir tree was still closer to my house than the already fallen tree. The next big storm would destroy my house in full. I decided not to wait for the accident, but to intervene protectively. Next day I got my chainsaw out of my house and went to the neighboring property. My neighbor was just about to get drunk again with a friend. But since it was only noon, he was still approachable. For felling trees, he had no desire at the moment, however. I then tried to make the tree alone. On television, I had learned how to chop down large trees. One sawed on one side the stem a notch, and then cuts from the other side slowly towards the notch. The tree falls in the direction of the notch on the earth. Unfortunately, my notch was a little bit wrong. The tree began to crack and moved toward the power line. This direction I had not planned for the tree.

I ran to the neighbor and gave him quickly the responsibility for the tree. Finally, it was his property and his tree. He was none too pleased, but at least now he stands up and walked to the tree. The fir was still standing upright. The neighbor decided to put a rope around the top and to pull the fir with the rope away from the power line. His buddy sawed the tree, we pulled vigorously and the fir crashed to the ground.  But the fir was heavier than we had thought. It roamed the overland power line. Sparks flew. And then the power line was dead. Shit happens. At least my house was safe now. All events have always a positive side, as I found out right away.

I called the electric company. In a very short time there was a car. A man looked at the power line, climbed up the mast and attached the power cord again. An hour later the power was turned back on. I realized that I am probably not perfect in felling trees. But my neighbor forgave me and invited me to drink the rest of the day with them. Meanwhile a third friend had come and brought a crate of beer. I sadly had to tell them, that I do not drink alcohol. Although alcohol drives away well all worries. But yogis prefer to think about the life and their own imperfection. So they grow in wisdom.

Oracle = Be careful, no matter what you do. Make no nonsense. Plan your life with wisdom. Do not cut large trees, if you are not able do it. Better go forward with small steps on your spiritual path. Grow slowly into the light. Success.

== The Unperfect Yogi ==
[[File:Nils Yogateacher.jpg|thumb|200px|Nils as a yoga teacher]]
15. As the fir crashed on my yogi hut, I had the thought: "I am insignificant for the cosmos." I immediately let go off my ego and therefore was remarkably peaceful. Finally bothered me much more that I had cut the second tree so unperfect. I find it easier to accept the imperfection of the universe as my own faults. Mistakes are part of life. You can learn from mistakes. Through mistakes life is always exciting. It takes unexpected turns, through which a person can grow spiritually. If he meditates on his mistakes and sacrifices his ego, he can develop his enlightenment energy. I would like to be perfect. This idea can inspire me to be better. But on the path of inner happiness, it is important first of all to accept in principle how you are. With all faults.

Oracle = Accept you as you are. What are your faults? What is your positive thought about it? "My positive thought is ..... ('''I take me as I am.''')"

== Dancing with the Chaos ==

16. Five fir trees are still standing. Two threaten the house and three the storm could blow on the power line someday. My neighbor has indeed declared that he wants to cut them down. But I think that it is not expected in the coming years. My neighbor is in my estimation a rotten sock, who nothing really gets together. I like him, but I rather rely on myself. The two trees standing in front of my house are so far away, that only their tips will touch the roof, if they decide to fall on my house. For the three trees in front of the power line, the electric company is responsible. She waits until a tree falls on the line and then sends a craftsmen. I did, what I could do. We'll see what happens, when the next storm comes. Not every storm overturns firs. Sometimes it can take many years, until a surprise is due.

Oracle = The yoga god Shiva is dancing with the chaos of life. He keeps himself constantly in the light with his qualities wisdom, peace, self-discipline, love and  joy. A yogi is planning his life wise, but he cannot avoid all suffering. If the chaos of life strikes him, he takes things as they are. He retains his equanimity and brings himself with his yoga exercises quickly back to happiness. Then he can laugh again about life and himself. Forward with optimism. May the laughter always be with you.