Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Left–Over and out.
Nothing left Thanksgiving at the Trolls My thanksgiving leftover dish how easy, NONE. I am a good cook no doubt but this is no thanks to my cooking. 🙂 I don't cook thanksgiving dinner as it is not honored our part of the world.Thank God. Dealing with left overs, food, emotions, action repercussions are all…
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Holiday Traditions
Holidays are fixed sometimes by the constitution and sometimes by cultural traditions when routine work is suspended. Traditions are customs and stories handed down from generation to generation. As a child the greatest of holiday tradition was the one that arrived bang on the middle of rains, the birth of Lord Krishna celebrated in my…
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Sri Lakshmi the goddess of material abundance
wealth is abundance. Quickie darshan Wealth to me is abudance. Wealth is something that will give me choices. I will not be limited by resources. It could be abundance in any form. The hindu mythology personifies this abundance as Goddess Lakshmi. The most popular image of Goddess Lakshmi is of abudance of material wealth. The…
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seriously silent
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. Yet at the end of the day we remember not the words of our enemies but silence of our friends! Does silence make me uncomfortable? When opposed to ding, noise, cacophony, no silence…
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A cold call
A cold takes seven days to heal without medication and a week with medication. Cure for a cold, when the temperature is low, or having no warmth like a cold water—heat it, cold day – warm clothes. If you have an skaters were cold, the uncomfortable lack of warmth then make it hot. Remember the…
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ignavus quod sileo tamen non sterilis
Path of least resistance makes all rivers, some of them are crooked Lazy Drinker – Borracho huevón Have I been disinclined to work, activity or exercise? Yes of course. I have felt guilty about it later too. Until I said thus far and no further on day. Laziness I learnt from Sogyal Rinpochee could be…
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