Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Conscious Decisions — Going Against What Is Popular
Just because an idea or way of doing things is popular doesn’t mean it’s right for everyone. However, part of the way that something becomes popular is that many of us don’t take the time to determine what’s right for us; we simply do what most of the people we know are doing. In this…
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Being Your Own Village
Being Your Own Village My daughter sketched this concept for me, about the Buddhist Vihara particularly the paintings where there is a projection of a pillar and then one side of the pillar is the village life, and the other side is the monastic life, claiming that the balance is required between the two. a…
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Voice of the ocean
. Someone once told me that if you need strength go to the mountain, if you need, calmness go to the see. Like us, the sea is ever-changing. And, like us, the earth’s vast oceans appear at a distance to be stable and homogenous. But beneath the mask of solidity that both we and the…
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who is a mystic?
Who is a mystic? A seeker or someone who intuitively knows? Exploring the only path I know I conclude. Mystics are neither drop outs nor escapists; they are scientist of catharsis and conversation. Now and then they do claim unqualified communication with god. They interpret the world with a different eye than an ordinary one.…
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the geopiety of the vatavriksha.
geopiety is the reverence of nature. trees are part of this too. this article looks at the famous botanical hermit the Banyan tree.
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Hello world!
hosa chiguru, hale beru kudiralu marasobhagu hosa yukti, hale tattwa dhodhagoode dharma. this small poem in kannada has inspired these pages. Basically the poem translates to the new leaves on an old tree, makes it beautiful new techniques to work a old principle makes it fruitful. Let’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to…
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