Month: June 2015

19.6.15
– How do you express negative emotions to an elder without insulting them?
How do you bring up concerns about corruption/inefficiency to a professional superior in an appropriate manner?

– Muslim Rashtriya Manch
WOW!
Hmmm……
– fiduciary
– Erotic relationship
– Hostile witness

– Unofficial canon

– Love crimes

– Jeb Bush

– The route from frustration to violence

– Inequality, demonization & terrorism

– Nek Chand

– Misplaced compassion

– Can Yoga ever be ‘non-religious’?

– Capacity-building

Skills training workshops
– Salafist

Sunna
– How do you combine being proactive/organized & responsive/flexible?
– Spiritual leadership & moral failure
– Depravity & criminality
– Religious doctrines, cultural mores & legal norms

Binding customs
– “At what age are you suddenly expected to know everything, and never make any more mistakes? If you can accept & respect yourself in failure, worlds of adventure & new experiences will open up before you!” – David Burns
22.6.15

– Movies:

“Dirty Dancing”

It’s all about becoming adult – spiritually, sexually & socially!

“Audition”

The casting couch & the Crucifixion!

Hell/evil is always just under the surface, even in (seemingly) placid situations……
– turret
– The deep wisdom of folklore!
– leprechaun
– Refugee ~ refuse
– Art

Vs.

Artefact
– Sadism & masochism always go hand-in-hand.

Right?
– Visit Chandigarh.

Why?
– Pluralism without relativism.

Subjectivity without skepticism.
– comity
– Social infrastructure
– leg-up
– Cultural institutions hamstrung by ideology
– hothead
– Gayatri mantra
– “Athithi devo bhava” (Sanskrit) – ‘The guest is equivalent to God’ or ‘Be one for whom the guest is God’
– Living in the present & self-control

Marital fidelity & sexual morality
– Distinguish:

Evangelical (noun) – I am not.

&

evangelical (adjective) – I am.
23.6.15

– Doubt –> curiosity –> questing –> discovery –>  innovation
– Lakshman Rekha
– Indecency

Vs.

Injustice

Which is more serious?
– Intelligent compromise
– Wisdom

Vs.

Prophecy
– Law

&

Apocalypse
– Criminal negligence

Vs.

Deliberate sabotage
24.6.15

– Anastrophe
– Judo, Jujitsu (root meaning?)
– Goal-oriented problem-solving

Teleological pragmatism
– Self-confidence and people-pleasing
– Is positive brain-washing the solution to negative cognition?
– How are creativity & productivity related?
– Insecurity –> defensiveness –> aggression –> despair!

But what is the cause of the first one??
– Simulated practice
– Role-modeling and skill-development
– Not all insensitive actions imply that people are self-centered or plain rude!
– CBT – it is equally important to detect our cognitive distortions when it comes to (how we see) others, the world, & GOD, not only (how we view) ourselves!