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March 4, 2017
The Museum of Broken Relationships
“An empty bottle of whiskey, a pair of fake breasts, a pair of tattered blue jeans, a toaster, an axe, and a stack of Brazilian Playboy magazines. These are some of the artifacts displayed at the Museum of Broken Relationships…” thank you for sharing, Alk3r!
An empty bottle of whiskey, a pair of fake breasts, a pair of tattered blue jeans, a toaster, an axe, and a stack of Brazilian Playboy magazines.
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March 2, 2017
PLATINUM INSURANCE
[image error]How are you? I asked a friend in Manhattan. Oh, I’m just FINE, he said with a laugh—then proceeded to inform me that FINE was an anagram for Fuddled, Insecure, Neurotic and Egocentric. (Actually he used two hyphenated words for the ‘f,’ but I think I’ll leave what they are to your rich imagination.)
The fact is that almost every one of us is (or has been) fraught by a million insecurities—and who could blame us? Consider the world wars our species has endured, the concentration camps and gulags, the ugliness of misogyny and patriarchy that plague so many, in a nutshell, man’s inhumanity to man—all of which leave scars on the collective human psyche. Above all, consider our ephemeral nature, as fragile as a snowflake melting under a hot sun. No matter how big we are in the world, nothing can protect us from old age, sickness and death; yes, when Yama , Lord of Death throws his deadly noose around our necks to remove us from this plane of existence, no power on earth can stop him.
I grew up frightened by a world I did not understand. How, I used to wonder as a child, could this entity called God that millions worshiped have created such an awful mess? I began to seek ersatz ways of coping with the suffering I perceived all around me—not just on the lower rungs of society, but equally in those who were educated and prosperous. My identification with body-mind-emotions-track record was strong, and although you might have believed I was on top of the world, the bitter truth is that I was seething with discontent and quite sure that I would never find the peace and joy that sages assure us is our true nature. My hypersensitive and hyper-empathetic nature made me highly vulnerable to all suffering without exception—whether human, animal or insect—and I was really at my wit’s end because I had realized what Hesse’s Siddhartha discovered as a teenager—that no lasting happiness could ever be found in the mundane world.
[image error]We all seek insurance against pain in different ways depending on our nature and predilections. Gautama Buddha’s first noble truth, that life is suffering, is often misunderstood and therefore rejected—but his definition of suffering is not confined to one hung on a cross, tortured or reviled—it encompasses simple disappointments and frustrations, not getting what we want, getting what we don’t want, as well as the major sorrows of old age, sickness and death.
Fortunately, although on the outside things continued to go south, this constant angst drove me to intensify my inner journey. Over the years I went through many paths in the process of seeking the secret way into that inner fountain of peace and bliss, and all of them gave me jewels, and yet none appeared to be the complete insurance package against pain I’d always craved.
[image error]Then one day I saw the face of Ramana Maharshi on the cover of a book and fell in love with the peace he radiated—and so my frantic quest for happiness finally led me to his luminous path, which is known as Atma-Vichara, the Direct Path or Self-Investigation, and my frustration dissolved as I realized it was for me the perfect way to dissolve my angst.
What is this Self? It is the beginning and the end, the source of all that is manifest and manifest and way beyond. For me today it represents platinum insurance against all the suffering the mundane world can hurl at me—for it is our true nature, sat-chit-ananda, pure existence, naked awareness free of thought, and the bliss that accompanies this knowing; so yes, once we commit to realizing who we are beyond name and form, and gradually begin to sink into the substratum of peace and bliss that is our essential nature, we discover our ultimate insurance against suffering.
Greetings from Arunachala, Shiva the Destroyer in the form of a mountain of fire and light, who helps us to incinerate our limited sense of self so we might discover the joy that we truly are![image error]
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Emotional Suppression, The Psychological Hidden Root-Cause Of Illness and The Directive of Self-Love
Dr. Gabor Maté: “When The Body Says No: Exploring The Stress-Disease Connection”…. A physician of great repute, Maté has seen in his clinic so many examples of the mind’s influence on the body (both in the cause of illness AND in its subsequent healing) that even to speak of the “mind-body link” is a false dichotomy.
The mind IS the body. The body IS the mind. He calls it mindbody unity. Thanks for a great post, Dan Sainsbury!
Dan Sainsbury Transformational Psychology
I am currently devouring an EXCEPTIONAL book by the wonderful physician Dr. Gabor Maté, called “When The Body Says No: Exploring The Stress-Disease Connection”. A physician of great repute, Maté has seen in his clinic so many examples of the mind’s influence on the body (both in the cause of illness AND in its subsequent healing) that even to speak of the “mind-body link” is a false dichotomy.
The mind IS the body. The body IS the mind. He calls it mindbody unity.
The premise of the book is that when WE as adults are not able to say no to others as an endemic character trait, or we are not able to get “on top” of a life-situation (with the resultant experiences of prolonged stress), then our body will say No for us, in the form of autoimmune diseases such as cancer, ALS, Crohn’s, and so on.
The theme that…
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February 25, 2017
Gorgeous Portrait Photography
Gorgeous portraits…thanks Alk3r!
Maurizio Marseguerra is a talented 24-year-old self-taught photographer, retoucher and computer engineer currently based in Turin, Italy.
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February 23, 2017
The Map of Mathematics
“In this video, the entire field of mathematics summarised, starting at the origins, in a single map…” wow!!! I’m lousy at math, so I will look at this carefully – thanks, Alk3r!
In this video, the entire field of mathematics summarised, starting at the origins, in a single map…
This shows how pure mathematics and applied mathematics relate to each other and all of the sub-topics they are made from.
February 19, 2017
Monday Funnies…
ha ha ha…funnies to brighten up your Monday…thanks Chris Graham!!!
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February 18, 2017
‘And by the way…’ Sylvia Plath on the worst enemy to creativity
“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
Sylvia Plath
Thanks, Bridget Whelan!
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Sylvia Plath
When I Am Not Enough… Guest Post by Tina Frisco…
Your mind is a powerful thing.
When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.
Buddha
Read Tina Frisco’s post on how we can transform our reality…great post, Tina, and thanks to Chris Graham too!
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Throughout our lives, we hear ourselves say: ‘I’m not that good!’ ‘I’ll never make it.’ ‘I wish I could write that well.’ ‘If only I had said. . .’
Words are powerful. Energy follows thought. The words we speak to ourselves drive our subconscious minds. Diminishing thoughts tell the subconscious we are not enough.
The subconscious mind is self-serving. Its mission is to fulfill our every desire, and it sets in motion the means by which to do so. It takes our words at face value and strives to manifest what they represent. It assumes that what we think and say is what we hope and dream.
How often have we heard ourselves utter, ‘Did I say that’? Unless we’re channeling spirit, the mouth speaks what the subconscious mind thinks. If thought rests in the conscious mind, we are aware of it and can choose whether or not to give it a…
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February 17, 2017
The Ksar of Ait-Ben-Haddou
“The town’s dramatic setting in the desert has not escaped the attention of the west. The UNESCO World heritage site has been used as the backdrop in nearly two dozen Hollywood movies including Lawrence of Arabia, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Mummy, Gladiator, Alexander and more recently, in the Game of Thrones TV series.”
The town of Ait-Ben-Haddou, located on the southern slopes of the High Atlas Mountains, is one of the most spectacular manmade sights along the valley in Morocco’s rocky desert.
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February 16, 2017
The Rare Lenticular Clouds Phenomenon
Exquisite! Lenticular cloud formations…thanks, Alk3r!
Lenticular clouds (altocumulus lenticularis) are sky phenomena often interpreted like UFO presences. These particular clouds can be generally seen on the top of the mountains, where different wind streams merge.
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