Month: February 2017

“Truth is not an option” – Nandita Das 

The Last Word – Week

(Referred by Jayakumar Rajapandian) 

What would a conversation between (someone like) Foucault & (someone like) Solzhenitsyn be like? 

Where is Jesus in all of this? How would Socrates think? And what would Immanuel Joseph say? 

I think the focus on the dangers of power (e.g. politics) and the complexity of truth (e.g. theology) should both be maintained, to address this vital issue properly… 

“Second Chance” by Shinedown

YouTube

WOW! Awesome timing… C’mon Joe, your comet waves 😇👊

It’s a great song, about becoming an adult (as an individual), & being a child (to one’s parents)…
This is definitely one of my favorite bands. 

“Distance makes the heart grow fond” (for family, relatives & friends) 

Vs. 

“Out of sight, out of mind” (for intimate relationship) 

RAMBLINGS

16.2.17

– Chakras, mudras & varmas

Naalumaa Yoga

17.2.17

– Present continuous for future

Present perfect

Risotto

Sangria

chicanery

insidiousness

Oversight bodies

National (Interfaith) prayer service 2017

Body-shop companies

Business models

Cut corners

Not a career politician

Undocumented people

“Hi doc, how are you?”

Hecklers

Role reversal & exchange

Reflective listening & mirror neurons

Imitation & empathy

– Can there be any pride, without prejudice?

18.2.17

– Trinity & monotheism – GOD himself is both community (three) and person (one)!

Therefore, any “we” that does not revere and serve the us and the me are demonic/evil/doomed

– Are individuals just outcroppings from the collective unconscious, like peaks in a mountain range?

Some of these peaks are hugging & shaking hands, and some of them are wrestling & strangling each other……!

21.2.17

– The Scylla and Charybdis of craving and aversion

Calm ~ purify

Harmonize ~ balance

No imagination or verbalization

Subtle realities

Non-reactive awareness

Sharpening the faculties

Gross sensations

Deep habits

Unconscious impurities

Goodwill and tolerance

Self-harming tendencies

Salvific conversion

Sages, saints & seers

Detach from negativity –> attach to positivity!

“May all (sentient) beings be happy”

Suffering – necessary & unnecessary – embrace & transcend the former, and alleviate & eliminate the latter!

22.2.17

– metafilm/metacinema

Common sensical non-truths

The extra-mental world

Noam Chomsky & Mahayana Buddhism

Psychic continuity

Hard-wired mechanistic mindset

16.2.17

– What is the root meaning of “allopathy”?

– Spiritual fat
Healthy indulgence

– Detach (desire) & engage (world)

– Where you (really) belong could be far away from (your current) home

17.2.17

– “Cheap & best” – the godfather of all lies! 😠

– The spirituality of sleep – unconsciousness, rest, rejuvenation & creativity
Hibernation ~ incubation!
Less (time) is more (life)……?
Sleep as escapism, apathy, lethargy, resignation, etc

– Family outing – as important (if not more) as home devotions…?
“All 6 of us in Chennai can go for an evening picnic together (beach, dinner, park or movie, etc.) around once a month…
What do you say, folks?”

– Do listen to your local FM radio station

– Perfection = strength + goodness + wisdom
This is purity before GOD!

– “Who is wise?
He that learns from every man;
for it is said, ‘From all my teachers I gat understanding’.
Who is mighty?
He that subdues his nature;
for it is said, ‘He that is slow to anger, and he that ruleth his spirit, is better than he that taketh a city’.”
– Ethics of the Fathers (Judaism)
One cannot learn humility & self-control, in isolation from others!
Can I learn from any person I come across?

– I need an anti-reflective & unbreakable mobile/tablet/laptop screen

– “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It’s not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

21.2.17

– A slow-speed bike with 5 gears – Honda Shine SP – what a stupid idea!

– The dialectic between intellect & breath is the key to spiritual growth (the process of elevating body & mind into the level of consciousness)!

– Accepting the other IN me, would help me deal better with the OTHERS around me!
Trinity – many in one <> one in many

– We must accept & love ourselves & each other as we are.
We must try to understand ourselves & each other for who we really are.
Each person is free to live the way they wish. Therfore, what we do for ourselves & each other can & must be done only voluntarily.
We can & must freely express our mind to each other, but the other is free to respond from their unique nature & position.
We must learn to deal with our own desires & expectations of ourselves & each other in alignment with the previous principles.

– Hebraic conversion – should I start observing Sabbath from Saturday evening to Sunday evening?
Maybe I should make every day from evening to evening!

– Are there ways to indulge yourself without negative side effects?

– I must get a super body (no tummy, fit, strong, perfect BMI & WHR) by the end of 2017

22.2.17

– Make fasting (partial) twice a week
Third way – is there a way to freak out & enjoy without gross indulgence?

– Price > cost > value

– New way:
Full indulgence/freak-out day (sex, entertainment, food, sleep)
Strict/fast/control day (study, diet, meditation, chores)
Monkish day – liquid diet, no entertainment, no siesta, etc.
Exercise everyday (except monk)
15 min. silence, stillness & solitude on freak-out days.
1 hour meditation on strict days.
6 hours sleep every night (except freak-out day)
1 & half to 2 hours afternoon nap (except on monk day)
No more moderation! Only extremes.
Watch & fuck!

Sunday – Sabbath party
Monday – Strict
Tuesday – Monk
Wednesday – Strict
Thursday – Mid-week freak
Friday – Strict
Saturday – Strict
Average ratio – 1:2.5 (weekly rhythm – 2+ 5 = 7)

– The erotic lives of attached (in an intimate/committed relationship) people

What is your sexual rhythm?

E.g. Cum twice a week – once with partner & once by yourself (autoeroticism – with or without porn, hookup, etc.). Never cum more than once continuously – keep the fire alive, always!

WOW! This happiness routine is exciting, isn’t it?? 😃😇