Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The Wisdom of Surrender
The wisdom of surrender, While recovering from a Burn accident, I hated it, two drips and a side burnt meant I had to depend on my niece and mother for everything. Not only did I hate it, it also made me angry. When I got better I came home, better was not much better, I…
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The Black checklist
Being Black. Black the integral part of life. Black the colour of coal, ebony and the unknown. The darkest colour this could be either due to the absence of light or due to total absorption of light. So much so we have a saying in Kannada that says,”yella banna masi nungitu” that translates to the…
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Universal Vibration.
Sound healing. The rustling of leaves, sounded so interesting, that I focused on it, a few minutes later I realized that the rhythm of the leaves rustling and my breath were in a synchrony. As was the drone of the bee that buzz by. The next experience was that of being part of the infinite.…
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Filling an imaginary void
Prajyot Mayemkar the CEO of Androcid and a leader in the Goa android movement was helping me buy netbook. He was very considerate to an illiterate senior but one thing that he told me at the end of the conversation remained “See, all these gizmo’s have a life span of max 5yrs. But the minute…
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Crowd Fragrance
Aer –Godrej… A lingering fragrance for 45 days. But a good fragrance is really a powerful cocktail of memories and emotions. There is a fragrance in the air that triggers a certain memory like a passage of a song, an old photograph falling out from the pages of a book the sound of somebody’s voice…
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Respecting Nature.
Open and listening. This was about four years ago, one silent morning, the dogs barked loudly for a few seconds and then there was a silence that was almost chilling. With the sun rose we realized we had a panther visiting our building it had had breakfast on our neighbour’s car hood. After staying here…
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