From c40d759f4ebeab25f7c8b3b87a6a38e3c3eec8c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Buetow Date: Sun, 21 May 2023 13:05:57 +0300 Subject: Update content for html --- .../DRAFT-kiss-server-monitoring-with-gogios.html | 2 +- index.html | 2 +- notes/a-monks-guide-to-happiness.html | 100 +++++++++++++++++++++ notes/index.html | 1 + uptime-stats.html | 2 +- 5 files changed, 104 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) create mode 100644 notes/a-monks-guide-to-happiness.html diff --git a/gemfeed/DRAFT-kiss-server-monitoring-with-gogios.html b/gemfeed/DRAFT-kiss-server-monitoring-with-gogios.html index 0dcca12a..34c09c78 100644 --- a/gemfeed/DRAFT-kiss-server-monitoring-with-gogios.html +++ b/gemfeed/DRAFT-kiss-server-monitoring-with-gogios.html @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ https://asciiart.website/index.php?art=objects/computers

Motivation

-As a Site Reliability Engineer with experience in monitoring solutions like Nagios, Icinga, Prometheus and OpsGenie, these tools often came with many features that I didn't necessarily need for personal use. Contact groups, host groups, re-check intervals, check clustering, and the requirement of operating a DBMS and a WebUI added complexity and bloat to my monitoring setup.
+As a Site Reliability Engineer with experience in monitoring solutions like Nagios, Icinga, Prometheus and OpsGenie, these tools often came with many features that I didn't necessarily need for personal use. Contact groups, host groups, check clustering, and the requirement of operating a DBMS and a WebUI added complexity and bloat to my monitoring setup.

My primary goal was to have a single email address for notifications and a simple mechanism to periodically execute standard Nagios check scripts and notify me of any state changes. I wanted the most minimalistic monitoring solution possible but wasn't satisfied with the available options.

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+Monk's Guide to Happiness
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+Monk's Guide to Happiness


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+Last updated 21.5.2023

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+Understanding Happiness


+

+
+Happiness is a skill we can train. 
+Happiness is not about accomplishing goals, as that would be in the future. 
+Feel free now. No urge about past and future. 
+We can learn to produce our own happiness independently of physical needs. When we walk in a park, how do we feel? We can train to reproduce that feeling independently. 
+


+The Role of Meditation


+

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+Meditation is not about clearing your mind. A busy mind has nothing to do with interfering with your meditation.
+Our problem is that we need to detect that awareness. Meditation connects us with awareness. Awareness is freedom.
+We can let the mind be and don't care about the thoughts. It will have benefits for your life. It will protect you from all kinds of stress.
+Better meditate with open eyes so you don't associate it with the dark. You will also be able to be in a meditation state of mind outside of the meditation session.
+Have a baseline for time to build up discipline.
+We don't need to do anything about stress, just take a step back.
+


+Managing Thoughts and Emotions


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+
+Our flow of emotions is really just habits. That can be changed through training, e.g., meditation training.
+A part of the mind recognises that we are sad or angry. That part is not sad or angry by itself, obviously. So we can escape to that part of the mind, be the observer, and not draw in the constant flow of emotions and thoughts. 
+Let the front and back doors of your house open, and let the thoughts come in and leave. Just don't serve them tea. This once said, a great Zen master.
+Thoughts are friends and not enemies. 
+Thoughts help the meditation as they make us notice that we wandered off, and therefore, we strengthen the reflection.
+


+Practice and Discipline


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+
+The importance of habits to practice mindfulness. Bring mindfulness into the daily practice.
+Integrating short moments of mindfulness during the day is the fast track to happiness. Start off with small tasks, e.g. while washing your hands.
+Have many small doses of mindfulness and don't prolong as otherwise, your mind will revolt.
+Have a small moment of mindfulness when you wake up and go to sleep.
+Practice staying fully present in an uncomfortable situation and without judgement.
+Don't become two persons who never meet: the meditator and the not meditator. So integrate mindfulness during the day too.
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+Perspectives on Relationships and Interactions


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+Who is the opponent? The other person. The things he said or our reactions to things? Forgiveness is a high form of compassion.
+Understand the suffering of the person who "hurt" us. Where is the aggressor really coming from?
+People who are stressed or unhappy do and say things they wouldn't have said have done otherwise. Acting under anger is like being influenced by alcohol.
+People don't have a masterplan to destroy others, even if it seems so. They are under strong bad influence by themselves. Something terrible happened to them. Revenge makes no sense.
+Be grateful for people "trying" to hurt you as they help you to practice your path.
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+Reflective Questions


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+ Why do I do all the things I do? What do I try to achieve?
+ What am I doing about that? 
+ Is it working?
+ What are the real causes of happiness and suffering?
+ What about meditation? How does that address the situation
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+Miscellaneous Guidelines


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+ Posture is important as the mind and body are connected.
+ Don't use music, so you don't rely on music to change your state of mind. Similar regular guided meditation. Guided meditation is good for learning a technique, but you should not rely on another voice.
+ You are not trying to relax. Relaxing and trying are two different things.
+ When you love everything, even the bad things happening to you, then you are invincible.
+ Happiness is all in your mind. As if you flip a switch there.
+ Digging for answers will never end. It will always cause more material to dig.
+


+If happiness is a mental issue. Clearly, the best time is spent training your mind in your free time and don't always be busy with other things. E.g. meditation, or think about the benefits of meditation. All that we do in our free time is search for happiness. Are the things we do actually working? There is always something around the corner...

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+
+Why do I do all the things I do? What do I try to achieve?
+What am I doing about that? 
+Is it working?
+What are the real causes of happiness and suffering?
+What about meditation? How does that address the situation?
+


+Happiness is all in your mind. As if you flip a switch there. 

+

+E-Mail your comments to hi@paul.cyou :-)

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 'Software Developmers Career Guide & Soft Skills' book notes

 'Never split the difference' book notes

 'Mental Combat' book notes

+Monk's Guide to Happiness

 

 That were all notes. Hope they were useful!

 

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 My machine uptime stats


 

-This site was last updated at 2023-05-14T23:37:24+03:00

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 The following stats were collected via uptimed on all of my personal computers over many years and the output was generated by guprecords, the global uptime records stats analyser of mine.

 

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