Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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A little about Trees
Sometimes I wonder if the current government is waging a war with trees. In the name of development we seem to indiscriminately cut trees, old trees that provided the shade along well laid roads have been chopped off too, and the ground has been cemented. Yet somewhere along the way, the trees, are our second…
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Shilpagram
Like last year this year too, we decided to drive along to Sawantwadi the only difference being we researched what we could see in around Sawant wadi. Though we did research we really did not achieve our target since each bit was quite interesting. Shilpagram was one interesting destination. It was conceived with idea of…
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spouse moulding
The Dipti Naval of Shrimaan Shrimati who learns how to drink to please her spouse, or the Vinod Mehra who looks at his spouse with disdain because she has “old fashioned values” seem so far, these days both the spouses seem to focus on insisting that the spouse adapt to suit them. I do not…
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Parental fears—breaking family ties that bind.
When I went to get a past life regression done, no matter what I did I could not go into a past life, all that I could see was darkness, and experience tremendous fear. Third time round when that happened, I was training under Dr.Yuvraj Kapadia of EKAA,(http://ekaa.co.in} and guess what, the familiar black, the…
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Vesaka
Vesaka or Wesaka, better known as Buddha Purnima was celebrated in India on the 4th of May; some countries celebrate it on June 1st. This informally called Buddha Jayanthi or the birthday of Buddha, however this is the day of that commemorates the birth, enlightenment and the death of Gautama Buddha in the Theravada tradition.…
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