Blog (Posts More Focused On My Life Story)
Seeing the Pandemic as Part of the Natural Flow of Life
The pandemic and quarantine.. almost all of us want to do something and fix the situation. What can be more natural than this? Let's do what we can in the natural flow of life.. what needs to be done will differ according to the location of the person. For some it...
Upcoming DIVI BUILDER 4.0
Divi Builder is an excellent WordPress theme and website builder that I have been using to create mainly this website for some years now. I had purchased a lifetime membership about after 1 year usage so that I wouldn't have to worry about the design architecture...
Self Loving Approach to Working
I just sent this to a friend after contemplating on why I was reluctant to apply on freelance jobs and about my work life.. how I wanted to work in this world. We both thought it was worth sharing: “I find that when i say i love you to myself it helps with my attitude...
Contemplations on Money, What to do in Life, Life Coaching, Anxiety, Covering Emotions with Food or Other Activities
Here is a message/contemplation I have shared with a friend.. I have been contemplatingso, i am staying as awareness.. and life goes on..i do chores and such.. and then nothing to do left.. i sit in front of the computer.. after a while.. i start to feel like i must...
Every Experience is an Opportunity to Find Yourself
I was chatting with a neighbor in his house on religion and spirituality. He was asking me about the purpose of religions. He is kind of an agnostic, and is skeptical of the purpose of religions. My answer was, in most cases they were systems put in place by their...
Riker Lets Go of Something
I thought it would be good to share a some insights I expressed while chatting with a friend. The excerpt contains some insights about peace, happiness and the desire for money, approval and fame, Me: Riker lets go of something; ...
More on What This Site is About
We are life. Life is 'experiencing'. When I look at it, I can sense that possibilities of experience are ranging to infinity, going beyond my human imagination. Centered on my body, I become aware of the possibilities for me in this life. This is like an unopened...
Anger or Mud?
Contemplation About a New Mode of Living
Here is what I shared with a friend today, I am also sharing this raw and unedited here: [2:43:39 AM] Erdal Bora: i am at a dilemma.. just wanted to share .. [2:43:47 AM] Erdal Bora: so that you can see the whole picture of me [2:44:47 AM] Erdal Bora: now.. today.. i...
Creating erdalbora.com and Migrating Content from Previous Site
I have been working for the last couple of weeks to create a self hosted, multilingual Wordpress based personal website. I have been setting up the software and moving the content from my previous site erdalbora.wordpress.com which I will be gradually phasing out. I...
On Patience, Forgiveness, Trust
Power, Responsibility, Impeccability and Surrender
Some minutes ago, I shook my head and put a hand to my mouth. I was surprised how seemingly small words can trigger great energies from people. But I am now fairly certain that Divine Love never betrays you. It only helps you. As I said in the previous post, I have...
The Powerful Energy Of The Spiritual Heart
Lately, in my life, I have been focusing on the Spiritual Heart on irregular times throughout the day, trying to somewhat maintain this focus and make it continuous. I have become more and more aware that this has a powerful purifying effect in my life. I feel as if I...
On Being Honest and Being Rejected
What Does a Happy Man Do?
Life Happens and I am Awakening
I wasn't going to write another post until I had a deep awakening. Well, I want to write one now, because I feel it is worth it. For a long time, I tried to fight with some of my desires in life. This led to inner conflict. Now, I am changing strategy. My strategy is...
This Will be My Last Message Until I Achieve a Great Breakthrough in Awakening
I now see that I need to completely drop identification with my thinking mind to reach enlightenment and practice this state until I reach enlightenment. I cannot control myself while opting to remain a person with a personality. This way my past never leaves me, I am...
Lost the Center Again and Gradually Lost the Fast, But Regained Some Centeredness After Some Effort
I gradually lost my center when I started to focus on the idea that I had to build a hut in the field to meditate and take care of the animals in an easier way. The problem here was that I lost the surrendered state, the state of trust to life, after and during a...
Limiting the Scope of My Digital Fast
I am continuing my digital fast but will make an exception for a single activity. I need some money to setup my hut and I need some online income. I will limit my online activity to only working. So basically, I will take extreme care to stay away from social...
Going on a Digital Fast
Hello, I am going on a digital fast for at least a few months. I won't be available for life coaching and other online activities during this period. Stay in Love. Update 1: Limiting the Scope of My Digital Fast Update 2: Lost the Center Again and Gradually Lost...
Towards Enlightenment (11): To Surrender One Hundred Percent or Not to Surrender One Hundred Percent, That is the Question on this Path.
Towards Enlightenment (10): Maybe There Is a Downward Spiral There. Or Maybe There Isn’t.
Towards Enlightenment (9): Downward Spiral Accompanied by Vivaldi
Towards Enlightenment (8): Continuity in Focus. What Do You Really Want?
Towards Enlightenment (7): The Ego Strikes Back… And Then…
Towards Enlightenment (6): From Morning Thought Soup to Clear Mind / Some People I’ve Learned From
Towards Enlightenment (5): Waking up While Drifting Off / An Introduction to Energy Capacity
Towards Enlightenment (4): About Moving Beyond the Understanding: “It’s not happening. I cannot focus, I am distracted by desires, by life. I feel very sad.”
Towards Enlightenment (3): What Can Be Done About Losing Focus/Getting Distracted?
Towards Enlightenment (2): The Ground Floor of Heaven is All Well and Good, but How Do We Get In?
Towards Enlightenment (1): The Ground Floor of Heaven and the Slowly Boiled Frog Syndrome
Freedom! – How to Free Oneself from the System and Sow the Seeds of Leaving a Beautiful World for the Future?
Stop Bullshitting Yourselves and Awaken Totally!
Until you are fully awakened, you will share the responsibility of all the suffering in the world, because all the suffering it in the world is caused by beings who are not awakened and a sleepwalker among sleepwalkers just adds to their illusion, supporting them to...
Time to Share – Hell’s Exit Door
A Blog Post at the Bottom of the Night. It Fits the Occasion. Appearing as You Are/Being as You Appear
All Lives are Sacred and Everything is Possible
I am nowadays going from 'I should do something with my life' to 'all lives are sacred and everything is possible' attitude to life. I mean, isn't everything happening through our choices? Isn't the universe perfect? Wouldn't your Soul be able to incarnate anywhere it...
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Starting to Share In Turkish
My Current Perspective While My Energy is Increasing/Building up and Where I am Feeling Centered
I must do something. It was the thought that was in my mind today. I was centered in my heart, my energy was building up, old habits losing their momentum moment to moment. But I kept focusing on my heart. I would not worry about doing something in life. I will act...
Life Coaching
I gave a free life coaching session to somebody in US. It is not much different than a day to day interaction with a person while holding the heart-centered state. The only difference is the other person is aware that I am supporting them, and they are aware that we...
Anchoring in Love. Continuity Challenge.
In the morning I had a 2 hour meditation. After this I felt really centered and my energy shot up. I went through the tasks of the day, and generally I knew that it was about sharing Love. It is evening now and the Love still goes...
More Info About My Life and Making the Blog Public
As I wrote in the previous post.. I have experienced both great despair and negative emotions and also peace and joy.. I just now realized that I want to focus on Love more while writing this article.. Now I am about to go public with this blog.. It was private...
Before the Last Few Blog Posts.. I Was Again out of the Loving State.
Well.. I see two distinct states: One is where I start to focus on the Love in my heart. And the experience gradually becomes more and more joyful, peaceful, happy, or good. One is where I focus on the desires of the subconscious mind, initially starts like an...
How to Help People?
Now. This is the most difficult thing to define. But yet it is the easiest thing to live if one knows how to. Hard to define because you help people by Love. Love can not be defined. Here is an attempt that would not do it justice: In any context, in any situation,...
I Want To Help People Without Caring for Money
Helping people. Is this what I really want? Yes. But the reason is this. What I really want is Love. Love. Divine Will. Surrendering to it. When I do this, it immensely helps me. It wants to express through me. It overflows. That is why I want to help other people....
In the Mood for a Blog Entry
Express through me Higher Self.. It does not need to be words. I am expressing through you always. Recognize this. All that you express is always me. I am your body. I am your mind. I am your Soul. Just where are you focusing?\ tHAT WILL BE THE ASPECT OF ME YOU...
Higher Self Give Me a Name for a Blog
Right now I am focusing on the Spiritual Heart. I will let whatever flows through in writing. My eyes will be closed. Thank God for leading me to develop a ten finger typing ability. I am tuired in body because it has been a long day and I have done significant...
New Approach
The vow approach I previously posted did not go as I wanted to go. I couldn't apply all the 10 steps continuously. I could say that it even backfired, and I was frustrated and I felt despair. Some weeks later, I started a new approach. This one is a non pressuring...
Back from the Spiraling Downward into the Ego and the Vow
How did it start? Perhaps it started when I started to go the ego's way in small things. Perhaps, when I did not deliberately focus on God but focused on the ego instead. It is so subtle. You try to make yourself believe that you can both focus on the desire of the...
Struggle to Focus on God and Continuing Reading Autobiography of a Yogi
I can distinguish 2 states, one where I am intently conscious, aware and focusing on God, and other state where I am not doing this and gradually get lost, and wander in my mind. I read up to page 95 of Yogananda's book. I didn't know such a book could exist where one...
Autobiography of a Yogi (2)
The book is turning awesome. The author is extremely intelligent and earnest. This is truly a jewel. I am at page 57 now. It is time I read such a book. I normally don't read books nowadays but this is a book I am interested in.
Update for Previous Entry and a Few Days of Hard Work
I ate a lot more that day. A local cheese desert and 2 local vegetarian meat (no meat but a lot of spices and stuff) rolls. And maybe more, I don't remember exactly. So, this daily intake software I used a few days ago.. It might be interesting to use, and useful to...
Today’s Entry
Creative title? Today I laid the stakes and marking strings for the small shed I am constructing. Here is my diet for today up to now: My energy is good. Right now I am focusing on the Spiritual Heart. Want to buy some Chia Seeds to add to my diet. The new dog took...
Centered, Feeling Greater Energy
I am feeling centered. I feel energy is built up in my body. It is a feeling of health and is like the feeling of having had a good rest and having eaten and digested the food. A feeling of not being hungry. Being ready for action. A sense of fullness. I am doing...
Celibacy, and Another Question: What Now?
It has been slightly more than 1 month and I have been celibate. I haven't been focusing on being celibate. I am just giving effort to sustain meditativeness and refraining from diving into the ego. And what now? Questions such as these start to arise when I am losing...
Hurting, Healing and Helping
Today I hurt the little dog that I had adopted. It kept biting me and when I am hurt I get angry. I tried to stop it by putting it a little distance away, telling it to stop, yelling in pain. But it came and bit me to play again and again. I got angrier and took it...
A Few Days of Many Things
Sometimes days pass where many things happen, many thoughts and emotions occur and you can't just categorize them into anything specific. I will write what now flows out of me about these last few days. What I remember is, my being vegan and the concern of buying and...
Autobiography of a Yogi
I started the book, read 7 pages. It is amazing. I am at an Internet Cafe now and it is getting late. I will continue some more. Checked the picture of Lahiri Mahasaya. Also Yogananda looks very strong in one picture. I am losing focus. Let me continue.
Focusing More on the Worldly Experience Than the Spiritual
Today and yesterday I was trying to set up the water containers for the temporary lodging that I am using to construct a tiny farm house. I was also trying to make chores easier by setting up earth containers and organizing the camp site, doing some land clearing etc....
Experiencing High Energy
I don't have the time to write long this time, because I have been in front of the computer for the last 6 hours with small breaks. Last two days I have walked over 4 hours, carried weights around 10 kg over long distances, worked long hours in front of the computer...
Reawakening the Blog
Hello, The previous blog entry introduces me, from my perspective in 2011. Much has passed since until today (2014). I went through really difficult times. I learned a lot of spiritual knowledge, and started to apply it throughout those times. About a month ago, I was...
Welcome
Hi! I am Erdal Bora. This is a temporary blog I am creating until I create a web site under my name. My primary purpose is not blogging but to have a free web site to offer free life coaching services to any Soul who stumbles upon my blog. It is a normal practice to...