Many stories of human endeavour upon deeper investigation reveal the following qualities:
1. Entrapment and suffering.
2. Catch-22.
3. Impending deluge, death.
The mind's conclusions are often much more severe than what actually unfolds.
"Learn to look without analysis, conclusions". Nisargadatta Maharaj.
Even the 3 points mentioned above are nothing more than a perspective. Situations are as they are. It's our mental projections into the future that judge these situations.
Anything, if looked at through the 'Mental Lens' of the future, or past, is at the risk of appearing morbid or negative.
Monday, April 23, 2012
Doom Boom Gloom
Labels: Death, The Mental Lens
Monday, March 26, 2012
Dealing With Stress
The only cause of stress is too much thought activity...
These stress relieving videos are based on the 'Golden Ratio', a number (1.61803399) that has fascinated philosophers/mathematicians for almost 2500 years.
The 'Golden Ratio' has fascinated mathematicians/philosophers/architects for almost 2500 years. Pythagoras and Euclid, astronomer Johannes Kepler, Oxford physicist Roger Penrose, to name a few.
And some more.....
And this Eckhart Tolle video explains how to pull attention from the mind, into the body.
As attention is pulled into the body, thoughts slow down.
It rejuvinates.
"Not Reacting To Content", when combined with the above exercise, would be very powerful.
Labels: Golden-Ratio, Meditation, Stress
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
There's No Tomorrow
“We cannot imagine Life without Death, because the entire Life rests on Death" - Sorin Cerin.
This video explains the collective death that stares humans in the face.
Humans walked off the cliff a very long time back. When humans assumed that infinite growth, without decline, is possible.
Everything humans have built is based on the assumption that oil and other natural minerals will always be available in plenty and will fuel growth indefinitely - a wrong assumption.
Our money is 'debt money' - money that can exist only if growth does not stop. If growth stops its upward journey - the financial system will collapse.
Even today, the corporate employee is under pressure to produce short term profits. If he doesn't, he'll be replaced by someone who does.
And short term profits cannot be generated if one works keeping in mind the big picture explained in the video.
Keywords: Peak Oil, Rare Minerals, Debt Money, Severe Resource Crunch.
Labels: Death, Sorin-Cerin
Friday, March 02, 2012
Our Place In The Cosmos/I Am The Light Of The World
"I am the light of the world".
Quantum physicists *accept the role of the living being in the scheme of things, the deep interaction/connection between the living being and the universe.
The living being is not just important, the living being is central to the existence and functioning of the cosmos.
The universe is not a machine that's running with utter disregard of its living inhabitants, but interacts with its living inhabitants. Continuously.
And it's not just the local environment that interacts with us. Even remote locations in the cosmos would be interacting with us.
Distance, it seems, does not matter, in these mysterious interactions that science does not really understand, but has observed.
10 Kilometres or 10,000 billion Kilometres. It does not matter.
We are interacting continuously with everything. Influencing/shaping it and getting influenced/shaped by it.
And possibly creating it.
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*Not all but at least some of the top physicists like Werner Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli and David Bohm accept this.
Further Reading: Wiki: Quantum Mind Body Problem
Labels: Quantum Physics