Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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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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Finding the deep strength.
Being tossed into the sea by a overturned boat, Dating the crab briefly Having a thrust with burns, An ankle crushed Appendix extracted. Being the resident muse of the gossiping town. The butt of venomous aunt’s tongue. My life has been adventurous, times of absolute low. Yet when I look i did survive those trials…
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Ulooka—the owl
The owl is one of the most curious creatures. A bird that stays awake when the rest of the world sleeps. They can see in the dark. That is so interesting, to be mired in reality when the rest of the world is dreaming. I wonder what the owl see, and does that the rest…
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moon gardens – experiencing nature by night.
Ratri Suktam the rigvedic hymn to — Ratri Devi—the divinity of night, is one of my favourite hymn. A whole other world exists in the light of a moon filled night something that we rarely take the trouble of noticing. My older daughter used to call it the “Moon Gardens” I prefer referring ratri in…
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