Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • The gift inside — Life Packaging

    Grandmother always told me that life is too small to learn from committing all the mistakes, so we learn from others mistakes and it would leave us free to commit our own.  Something very similar was told by husband’s Guruji, of the audhoot ashram kurukshetra—we do need to connect with people to harness life experiences.…

  • Keeping our energy safe

    Keeping our energy safe, “You have to be able to centre yourself, to let all of your emotions go. Don’t ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.” ― Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Have you also experienced the kind of fatigue or tiredness during cycles of the day? I noticed this happening to…

  • Mt Devastating Diva style– Bohemian, Classic.

    Women’Web   and Trishala emart   have invited us to express, what makes me unique and what defines my style.   I have never really given it a thought, and never bothered with fashion. Being the youngest in a chain of four girl cousins I wore hand-me-downs till I reached medical college. Coco Chanel has got it right…

  • Just what is AIB?

    “Aamir khan producer of Delhi Belly finds AIB knock out objectionable” “Farida Jalal finds AIB roast embarrassing” The number of message bytes was almost sending me to a hypnotic trance. I had to find out what AIB was about. Then I saw hosts  Karan, Arjun, Ranveer have all been hauled up for it. The Amul…

  • Releasing guilt

    Permission to forgive ourselves At the Landmark forum, we come across lot of stuff. But usually what we are dealing with is grudges not let gone, and wrongs we have not forgiven.  Both wrongs done to us, and we have done to others, still worse is our inability to forgive ourselves. So many of us…

  • Prayer and meditation.

    Prayer and Meditation. Many a times I have wondered what is the difference between prayer and meditation. After all both offered a connect with the divine.  I out  started observing myself, the words I used, the way I thought and felt during prayer I realized I used language to express myself, my inner most thoughts…

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