LIFE - Instructions for users (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781724564634)

I was born near the border which sixteen centuries ago divided the Eastern and Western Roman Empires - the river Drina in Bosnia and Herzegovina ( part of former Yugoslavia). This East-West divide still exists today as a consequence of the dissolution of Christianity to the west and east, thousands of years ago. I spend more of my childhood outdoors - by the streams, in the forest, in a cave - than in my own home. My University degree - Sport teacher ( the Psychological preparation of athletes - specialty) I got in Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a city known as 'the European Jerusalem'. This name came about because in the old part of the town, within a few hundred meters of one another, are religious buildings of all European faiths. As a child I started to ask question about Life. None of replies I got - from parents, a teacher at school, religious officials - sounded convincing to me. So, I began my search through books, travel, various school of meditation, yoga, vegetarianism, the martial arts, sometimes listening to music high on marijuana, conversations with all sort of people....One day I thought I had the answers to everything, I knew everything. Then, there was a civil war in Yugoslavia. I saw how World Satan, in association with local Satan, plunged the country into a Hell of suffering. The people believed Satan's lies and propaganda that they were different from one another and so enemies to one another. Blood flowed. Satan grew rich. In real life, all theoretical knowledge I had gained, was useless. The God I knew previously was gone. Because I did not want to be a pawn in the hands of Satan and fearing the great risk to my family's ( wife, two children and mother) psychological and physical survival, we left our hearth, our home and went to the Netherlands. Then, began the second part of my search for answers to the questions of Life - this time in real Life - not a Life seen through a rosy illusion. I did not find the answers in the world's famous Zen centres - I saw these as theatres for entertainment. Because of my direct, practical questions ( which even 'Zen masters' could not answer) I become a disquieting and unwelcome guest. They were especially insulted because I did not see the purpose of worshiping the Buddha statues - for them this was blasphemy. One day, when I realized that no-one else can give me an answer and I must find it in myself....the answers started arriving. I began to write before I forgot....