Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Sharing grief, opening to receive comfort
From childhood, keeping a stiff upperlip, not crying in public was taught to us. so much so we confused empathy with pity. The time I lost my father, the time I was recovering from my burns, these were moments that caused me feel shock and sadness, the first thing I did was to withdraw from…
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Regret.. the weight of the past.
Kurt Vonnegut says,”of all the words of mice and men the saddest are,’It might have been.” Every Toastmaster has three speeches, one that we prepared, one that was delivered and finally one that we wish we had delivered. This thing applies to many situation in our lives. We all do things that we desperately wish…
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Spirituality at workplace.
There is a story about a great follower of Buddha, who was a prime minister, he wore silks, jewellery and rode on an elephant as befitting a Prime minister and not the humble garb of a spiritual seeker. Yet the Buddha considered him a true Bodha-sadhak. There was a murmur within the others, until someone…
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Challenge and Anxiety
The annual Dussehra performance and I was totally aghast when my performers could not perform since the institution where I took the workshop had suspended the students. Handling the crisis I realized my entire visual of disappointing the audience and anxiety took toll before I even looked at a solution. Most of us are stronger…
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workshop oan Ancient Wisdom
Yesterday afternoon ICG organized a workshop on “Ancient learnings and transferring it to a new wave” I participated in it hoping that there would be some insight in transferring the ancient knowledge. Well the workshop began with us sharing about what we thought of our ancestors, from there were a few slides on Nelson Mandela’s…
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Put Em-Rights.
Put Em-Right was a book written by Enid Blyton, where a bunch of kids went around correcting people eventually discovering that their very behavior was judgemental and obnoxious. Vatsala’s brother translated a classic text of an ancient language to English, he was very clear it was a rendering and not a translation. Yet, Vatsala took the trouble…
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