Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The Way Of the Warrior
The Warrior Spirit. Compassionate intensity, the way of the warrior. Even in times of trauma, we try to maintain a sense of normality until we no longer can. That, my friends, is called surviving. Not healing. We never become whole again … we are survivors. If you are here today… you are a survivor. But…
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Following the nature’s cycle, — earth living.
Ritu samhara by Kalidasa is favourite of mine where each season is described as a pair of lovers. Then there is Baramas, both Meera, and by Ravidas that drift into the tradition of Sufism where with the divine-devotee and seasons. My personal god and theatre guru Ratan Thiyam, presented Ritu samahara, as the way Kalidas…
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Waking up to the life of my dreams..
Waking up to the life of my dreams.. One day Dr.Patricia Sequiera visited me, she is the doctor at the University. She had signed up as an Amway consultant and she had come to share the business the plan. She asked me what my dreams were. At that point in life I could not see…
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Truth within–The value of my wisdom
It took Landmark forum, though a little late in life, for me to value my own instinct, intuition, inner wisdom or whatever we choose to call it. I am sure you must have all been there at some point or the other. There were always people who presume to know what is best for me,…
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The World UN- Day
“After the second world war in 1948 they founded the UN, the United Nations so that a crime like the mass-murder of the Jews could never happen again. Now the UN is a flourishing organization a honourable institution, the only thing is that it doesn’t do the thing they founded it for: prevention of mass-murder.”…
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Kid stuff
“baccha hai” is the excuse for all irresponsible acts in our culture. Yes baccha or kid could be irresponsible, sometimes we learn from there. When we were practising Navavidha bhakti for Ashada Ekadashi at Puttaparthi, there was this little girl, who was all of 6yrs. she was to perform atmanivedhana… this was a concept that…
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