Prema Shakti Yoga

17/10/2025

When the Irish-born monk U Dhammaloka spoke in colonial Burma in the early 1900s, he didn’t hold back, as historian Lawrence Cox explains. He laid bare what empire looked like to ordinary people: religion as a tool of conquest, military power as its enforcer, and alcohol as the poison that followed. His words cut through the polite masks of colonial “civilization” and named the machinery for what it was—control through the Bible, the gun, and the bottle.

Listen: https://insightmyanmar.org/complete-shows/2025/4/30/episode-342-an-irish-bhikkhu-in-burma

This wasn’t abstract theory. Burmese Buddhists were watching Western Christian missionaries arrive with scripture in hand, backed by the authority of empire. They saw cannons pointed at their pagodas. They watched communities hollowed out by liquor and o***m. Dhammaloka’s fierce critique connected those dots, showing how colonial power worked on the soul, the body, and the community all at once.

And how people responded! Crowds gathered in their thousands to hear this shaven headed, barefoot Irishman in robes call out injustice in their own land. His message resonated not just because he was foreign, but because he was willing to break ranks—crossing racial, religious, and cultural lines to side with those on the receiving end of empire.

The Bible. The Gatling gun. The whiskey bottle. More than a century later, the formula is recognizable. Ideology, violence, and exploitation still often travel together. Dhammaloka’s voice reminds us to question the stories we’re told, to recognize the weapons—spiritual or material—that come disguised as progress.

09/10/2025

...kdybyste však obdržel z vysokého místa rozkaz pod nevímjakým trestem postavit se na rohu Můstku a každého kolemjdoucího uhodit holí, učinil byste tak patrně s dětsky čistým svědomím a po každé pořádné ráně, kterou byste uštědřil, měl byste téměř příjemný pocit: “Plním jen svou povinnost.”

Dejme tomu, že byste to ani nedělal pod trestem smrti, nýbrž pod radovským platem s postupem a penzí; i pak byste “plnil jen svou povinnost”.

Nemusí to ovšem být primitivní a nedokonalé vraždění holí; jsou povinnosti krutější, elegantnější a méně namáhavé než tato, povinnosti, které plníme škrtem péra, slovem nebo kývnutím hlavy.

Jsou tedy dvě mocnosti v mravní oblasti:
“svědomí”, které mnohého nedovoluje,
a “povinnost”, která dovoluje, čeho nedovoluje svědomí;
tím je vyplněna palčivá mezera, kterou svědomí nechává ve světě činů.

Povinnost je mocné a uklidňující slovo, jež uvádí do světa pořádek. Mistr popravčí není osobně zlý a nepřívětivý člověk, ó nikoliv; plní jen svou povinnost a jeho svědomí je čisté...

https://www.kapkacapka.cz/2017/02/povinnost.html

05/10/2025

Via Thomas Merton

29/09/2025

Poslechněte si Momenty ze setkání s hudebníkem a spisovatelem Vratislavem Brabencem – mluví o tom, v čem se lidská společnost podobá kolonii mravenců, a popisuje své pokusy o emigraci, včetně toho, jak v Kanadě nedokázali pochopit, že by někdo mohl skončit ve vězení za hru na saxofon ▶ rozhl.as/MomentyBrabenec

27/09/2025

The greatest challenge in life is to be our own person and accept that being different is a blessing and not a curse. A person who knows who they are lives a simple life by eliminating from their orbit anything that does not align with his or her overriding purpose and values. A person must be selective with their time and energy because both elements of life are limited.

Kilroy J. Oldster

26/09/2025

26/09/2025

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.

Jim MORRISON

23/09/2025

Empaths and narcissists usually attract one another as a result of trauma bonding. This bond is rarely coincidental—it is forged in the unseen echoes of past pain and unhealed wounds. Both empaths and narcissists often emerge from childhoods marked by trauma, neglect, or emotional chaos. Yet the paths they take in response to that early suffering could not be more different. Empaths, despite enduring their own hardships, manage to preserve their light. They grow with hearts that are tender, perceptive, and deeply attuned to the emotional states of those around them. Their experiences cultivate in them a profound desire to protect others from pain, to offer comfort where suffering exists, and to be a steady, healing presence in a world that often feels cold or indifferent.

Narcissists, conversely, respond to trauma by internalizing it in a way that twists their perception of the world and others. Instead of learning to heal, they conform to the darkness that surrounds them, shaping their lives around control, manipulation, and self-preservation. Inflicting suffering becomes a mechanism to feed their wounded egos—a way to assert power, mask vulnerability, and maintain a sense of superiority. Their interactions are often transactional, strategic, and devoid of genuine empathy, though they can mimic caring behaviors to lure in those they sense will support or elevate them.

The dynamic between empaths and narcissists is magnetic and destructive. Empaths are drawn to the narcissist’s charisma, confidence, or apparent vulnerability, believing they can offer the healing and compassion that the narcissist never learned to receive. Narcissists, in turn, are drawn to the empath’s openness, sensitivity, and unwavering compassion, which they exploit to fill the gaps in their own sense of worth. This creates a cycle of intense connection, confusion, and emotional turbulence. The empath gives endlessly, hoping to awaken the good they sense buried beneath the narcissist’s mask, while the narcissist takes relentlessly, perpetuating the empath’s old wounds and reinforcing the trauma bond.

Breaking free from this cycle requires recognition, boundaries, and self-awareness. The empath must remember that their light is precious and not meant to be used as a tool to prop up another’s ego. The narcissist, if they are ever to change, must confront the darkness they have hidden from themselves and seek healing that is genuine, not manipulative. Until such awareness exists, the dance between the empath and narcissist continues—a poignant reminder of how early trauma can shape lives, attract unlikely pairings, and test the resilience of those whose hearts remain open despite the pain they carry.