MAGICAL MINDFUL LIVING: FINDING JOY IN THE EVERYDAY

Part 1 - the inside man. Imagine a man, in a house. While within this house he would know, everything inside of it. He would know the tables and chairs. He would know what pictures hang on the walls of his living room. He would know the smell and the color of his bedsheets. He would know people inside of it. Basically, he would move from one place to another inside his own house. Without disturbing anything. But re-arranging them for his use. Part 2- the outside man. Now cons

Beginnings. Information theory is a fascinating concept, connecting mathematics with computer science, biology and even philosophy. Previously I have written about information sphere, and how the personality is just a representation of information. However, only recently I have read about mathematical representation of information theory. As an example, the human DNA contains only 1.6 GB worth of information in its base pairs. Yet here you are reading this article with comple

There is no coming to consciousness without pain." — Carl Jung "For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow." — Ecclesiastes "Consciousness is... the dagger in the flesh." — Emil Cioran "It is great pain... that makes us more profound." — Friedrich Nietzsche Pain of awareness Did you know? If you do not know, the awareness has a price. As a blog, here I promote mindfulness as means to discovering solutions for our life problems. The aw

I was reading a book called cosmology of the curious. Which discusses some fascinating facts about our own existence in a larger lens. Literally hundreds of mega scale telescopes looking at the sky day and night listening to the cosmos, has brought us some inevitable conclusions about our own universe. If you feel like you do not have energy to get up from your couch and move some of the stuff in your room or from your bed for it to look better, I will say think again. As, I

I realized yesterday, I am procrastinating on watching Netflix. I have 3 unwatched TV series and many movies to catch up and follow. I am below the level of their posting to watch everything I desire. Not that it is a race, but as life happens, I don't want to miss out on good stuff. That is partly why I keep each and every article of mine to a bare maximum 3-4 minutes. I just want to give a message, or a few seconds of entertainment, if I am writing a story or a poem. So, ye

Surface tension - Essay There are many things, which happen in the universe, other than you. Yes, you! the selfish egoic humble proud subjective isolated consciousness which is reading this now (you are allowed to add or subtract adjectives as much as necessary, but what matters is the core, the bare consciousness stripped out of adjectives). How about surface tension?

A Harvard lecture on what is moral ambition I was listening to a Harvard lecture by Rutka Bradman the other day and it was about how intellectually gifted students or intellectually superior part of the population end up in doing some mediocre selfish game played in corporates, finance, And other fixed categories of workforce in our society. According to him majority of these people by the end of their life, are not happy about what they have done or accomplished in their car

A description of a Wednesday morning, casual but as seen from a philosophical point of view, of not wanting happiness

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Buffalo Wisdom. Once upon a time there was a buffalo. As all the buffalos in stories, this buffalo also could speak! He used to drag...

The little Match Girl. 1845 My childhood was full of happy memories. Of course I did cry just like any other child. Yet I can remember...

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Blind men And the Elephant parable. Once upon a time there were five blind persons. They were all friends. As it happened one day an...

Rubber seeds. They were hard to come by, rubber seeds. When I was a small child, I really wanted to find one. They were hard to come by,...

This is not an article to sell you some stuffed toys, but about mindfulness and philosophy. "Wake UP" Coffee house. It is early in the...