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For long time I couldnt understand what is Gestalt.. this word seemed magestic and difficult for understanding… until I got an example from real life.. My neighbor woman told me once that when she was a child she had a traumatic experience, a fire burned the house and a dog, tied to it. She in her old age still couldnt forget the sufferings of the animal. This is an open gestalt.

To close it I offered the practice from NLP I learned from Andrey Mikhailovich Barakin. I offered her to dig in this traumatic experience and change the end – to imagine that she (girl) has lots of water and to overflow her dog with this water…somehow this method helps… people start to feel better.. the gestalt clothes and deficit becomes fullfilled.

I also understand such gestalts \ deficites as a problem that cant be settled cos the person is dead for instance or doesnt want to connect with you… in this case a technique of psychodrama or family constellations step in, when you can insult\ask to forgive the real man who plays the role of the dead one you need.. you can even go to the cemetery to say it by the grave.

From Barakin course on psychological aspects of overweight I remember one woman who told her story also started in childhood. She lived in a poor family who couldnt afford desserts for children more than cheapest sugar candies. And this girl once went to the house of her friend and has stolen from it some money. The summ was enough to buy a big cake with cream and all that stuff. They (she and her sister) bought this cake went out of shop and eat this cake with bare hands straight on the grass. And her parents found out this and idk if she was punished or not… but this deficit aka gestalt was not closed… Andrey Barakin told her to change this situation from the past in her head now.. to give this little girl all the cakes in the world and money and gold… anything that can close fullfill the void.

I worked with sui deviations of one girl and her subconscious brought to light the image of her uncle who commited suicide. We considered the life as a flow of water that goes from parents to children and so on… she got the image in her head that her uncle was asking for water, he was thirsty, he wanted to drink… basing on this NLP method i asked her to give him all the water in the world… and she felt better.

Well.. idk maybe its too much and I bring the term Deficite from business and i cant use it for gestalt… but the term “to close a deficit” is now equal to me same as “close a gestalt”.

Vika Magnitskaya

P.S. Actually I found this term not in business but in literature for loosing weight. The book (Olga Goloschapova Goodbye, diet) was very good. It told the real truth of dieting, she wrote there that no diets are efficient and only letting yourself go and eating intuitively can solve the matter of overweight. You can eat everything you want.. if you want sweet – eat sweet, lard – eat lard..bread – eat bread.. the aim is to close your body deficits… and this is true when you let yourself eat all you want very soon you will loose interest to sweet, lard and bread and will eat it in small amounts just enough to make you feel ok. Yes.. and as a result of this intuitive eating is that you will get back your energy.. and you will want to go into sport.. Olga started jogging in the park, I after reading her book – started daily 30 mins fast walking on the running machine in gym.. and letting myself eat all i want I feel full of energy. This book is only in Russian, but the main idea i just gave you.

soviet cake
Soviet cake

I had this idea – we should put a chip into every fiat banknote so that all of them, and their movement inside the country and abroad, could be tracked just like payment cards. Or like the tracker chips owners put in dogs and cats.

I asked DeepSeek about this, and it answered that Rus Government had come up with something similar – but better – national digital currency with a unique identification number.

They might say that with the introduction of digital currency, Big Brother will watch you even more closely.

What shocks me is that the US prints about $696 million. And they say, with a straight face, that these $696 million a day are only needed to replace worn-out old dollar bills around the world.

Like, imagine I live in India and I have a one-dollar banknote. It’s all torn and killed, so I go to a bank and exchange it for a new one.

Is that what they need $696 million a day for?

That sounds like nonsense.

For comparison, Russia’s Goznak prints about 19.2 million banknotes a day.

Why the whole world still tolerates these naked kings – these pieces of paper supported by nothing.

And in Russia, they plan not to just add digital currency to the money supply, but to replace paper money with digital rubles. Hopefully that’s what actually happens – because I remember Trump saying that to cover the US national debt, he would just write the debt number on a piece of paper and issue digital dollars for that amount. That’s just insane.

Well… at least it’s reassuring that bankers can’t just add zeros to their accounts, and that money emission is controlled only by the Rus Central Bank.

But on the other hand, it’s scary that such emissions are real and are used by world leaders – and also by cryptocurrency creators. Even that beloved Ethereum can be emissed as a part of the protocol to praise validators, so emission of Etherium is coded in this crypto… maybe you also make the same and become a digital nomad – which is probably exactly what Buterin did.

And then there’s usury (borrowed money returned with %). It appeared with humanity and will never die. The first person who borrowed, and the first moneylender who lent with a +300% return – just like today’s mortgage rates in Russia. DeepSeek says this +300% comes out of emptiness\thin air (because bank operating costs are much lower), and that society and business can’t exist without bank loans – and that +300% just spreads through the economies of country and the world.

Oh, and by the way in the middle of all this fiat, digital, and electronic money emissions, there’s Bitcoin – digital gold – because you simply can’t print more of it. At all.

modern banking system in Rusia and USA
modern banking system

perfect monetary system - Universal Basic Income in combination with capitalism monetary system. When everyone gets monthly payment enough for basic needs and if you want extra - go and earn. So you are free to choose. ideal in the world where robots take most of the jobs.

Question for AI: Buddha said – be generous to get rich and compassionate to defeat your enemies. Is this true?

Answer: This is a very interesting question that touches the depth of the Buddha’s teaching. There is no direct quote with this exact wording in the canonical texts (for example, in the Pali Canon).

However, this phrase very accurately conveys the spirit and logic of the Buddha’s teaching, though not in the sense of benefit as we often understand it. Let’s break it down.

  1. “Be generous to get rich”
    From the perspective of classical Buddhism, this does not mean: “Donate 100$ to get 1000 back.” That approach is a transaction, not true generosity (dana).

The truth behind this statement is much deeper:

Wealth as a karmic consequence: Generosity (dana) is one of the primary qualities that creates good karma. In Buddhist cosmology, generosity leads to rebirth in the heavenly realms or in a wealthy human family in the next life. So, “to get rich” here is understood as karmic response, not an immediate profit.

Wealth as an inner state: The Buddha taught that true wealth is not just gold, but also the wealth of faith, morality, wisdom, and generosity. A person who practices generosity frees themselves from greed, stinginess, and attachment to things. This feeling of inner freedom and abundance is the greatest wealth.

The psychological aspect: A generous person creates a positive social field around themselves. People treat them better and trust them more, which in the long term can lead to material prosperity as a side effect, but not as the main goal.

Conclusion: Yes, generosity leads to “enrichment,” but primarily karmic, psychological, and spiritual.

  1. “Be compassionate to defeat your enemies”
    This is an absolutely brilliant and central idea in Buddhism. Here, “victory” is not about destroying the enemy, but about ending the circulation of evil itself.

The law of karma: Hatred only gives birth to new hatred. If you respond to an enemy with evil, you only strengthen the cycle of violence (samsara) and become part of the problem.

Compassion (karuna) as a weapon: Compassion is not weakness, but a powerful force. When you respond to hatred with compassion, you break the vicious cycle.

Who is the real enemy? According to Buddhism, our main enemy is not an external person, but our own poisonous states of mind: anger, hatred, ignorance. To defeat an enemy through compassion means to defeat the anger within yourself. When there is no anger inside you, external enemies cease to exist for you.

A key quote from the Dhammapada that confirms this idea:

“Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is it appeased. This is an eternal law.” (Dhammapada, 5)

Summary

The phrase you cited is not a direct quote from the Buddha, but it brilliantly and concisely summarizes the essence of his teaching on karma and working with the mind:

Generosity is an investment in your happy future (in this and subsequent lives) and a way to cultivate non-attachment.

Compassion is the most effective “weapon” for disarming an enemy and ending a conflict that begins in your own mind.

Thus, from the perspective of Buddhist philosophy, this is the highest truth, albeit understood on a deeper level than simple conventional wisdom.

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