Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Brinner Time
Originally posted on Cantadora – The keeper of stories.: Breakfast for dinner? Am I a fan? I first had to figure out what breakfast for dinner meant! To me food is essentially to satiate hunger I have no fixed visuals of dinner, breakfast, or lunch menu. It is only today that I discovered that dinner…
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Money matters
Relating to money Pablo Picasso said he wanted to live like a poor man with lots of money not a bad idea. I have had a traditional upbringing with standard norms and values. Our relationships with success, money and prosperity are kept under wraps hence are warped. The Atharva Veda is very clear that poverty…
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Handling Anger
Temper’s the one thing you can’t get rid of, by losing it Jijabhai measure two measured two measures of flour, added a measure of water, one third measure of oil, a pinch of salt, “Eh Rukma, knead the dough” Rukma, never really seem to get annoyed with Jijabais acid tongue or hurting ways, “All said and done,…
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Deja Brew– a feeling that you drunk this brew before.
inDeja Brew the feeling that you have had this brew before. Is essential for my life it helps me connect with myself. I have no problem at all with caffeine, my tussle is with the decaf-fine. Where is my favorite place to grab a cup of coffee? My kitchen. For I need my coffee black as devil,…
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Bike dairies.
You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn’t play that way. It’s about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it. Gael Garcia BernalB Bikes and Bikers Whats the image that comes up? Tattooed young men with the teen-Queen on the pillion? Or a Goth clad young woman…
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the duality of Lakshmi.
The duality of Alakshmi fascinated me. For if the Amritha or the nectar of immortality emerged when the Ocean of milk was churned so did the pollutant Halahala or the cosmic poison. The Vaishnava legends claim that Alakshmi the twin of Lakshmi is the embodiment of Halahala. She is the goddess of misfortune and strife.…
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