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Cerebrations: Consciousness and Energy
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Saturday, 19 July 2014. Amongst the attributes of the Chakras we meet two important symbols: Shiva and Shakti. SHIVA symbolizes consciousness, the masculine principle. SHAKTI symbolizes the feminine principle, the activating power and energy. Whenever a power becomes active, and wherever energy exists, Shakti is working. Other terms for these primal principles are PURUSHA and PRAKRITI; Purusha is consciousness and Prakriti is nature. Shiva and Shakti are manifestations of the all-in-one divine consciousn...
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Cerebrations: Communication Mythos: Should the burden of understanding be on the message giver or receiver?
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Saturday, 12 July 2014. Communication Mythos: Should the burden of understanding be on the message giver or receiver? Management Mythos: Should the burden of understanding be on the message giver or receiver? The Economic Times on Mobile. The message-giver thanks the message-receiver for enabling him to better understand human desire and capability. We see this in the long documents and numerous posters that repeatedly seek to explain values and behaviours that the company endorses. There is anxiety ...
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Cerebrations: Overcome Your Soft Addictions
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Saturday, 26 April 2014. Overcome Your Soft Addictions. Many 'harmless' habits that we overindulge in like nail-biting, shopping, web-surfing, continuous texting or checking for messages, overworking, procrastinating, gossiping, watching too much television, and too many cups of tea or coffee, can become what are called "soft addictions" that limit our potential, ultimately draining us of both energy and self-respect. 8230;And so it's been. The prim princess royal, gifted with itty-bitty knitted boot...
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Cerebrations: We are Alive - Yet Dead
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Saturday, 19 April 2014. We are Alive - Yet Dead. The Truth is: Renunciation is Supreme Enjoyment. Greek thinker Diogenes gave up everything. Like Mahavira, he lived naked. All he kept was a begging bowl, for begging and drinking water. One day, he saw a villager drinking water by cupping his hands, so he immediately threw away his begging bowl. The villager asked him, “What have you done? The first time Diogenes cupped his hands and drank water from them, he started dancing! Our senses have become numb ...
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Cerebrations: You Need Shock Treatment
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Saturday, 2 August 2014. You Need Shock Treatment. This was like shock treatment.Shock treatment is a law of nature. This shock treatment can be called a challenge. Every human being faces this kind of challenge in some way or the other. This shock treatment is a blessing in disguise, for it always acts for the betterment of the person in question. And perhaps for all others as well. In this way nature tries to awaken your mind, it tries to initiate a process of rethinking. There are numerous people in h...
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Cerebrations: The Desert Retreat House: The Practice of Equanimity
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Saturday, 17 May 2014. The Desert Retreat House: The Practice of Equanimity. Buddha in the Garden". At the store yesterday I heard a shopper say to the cashier, "I am so stressed out," and without batting an eye, the cashier responded, "Aren't we all? When I got home from the store yesterday, I put the word "stress" into a Google. As I think abut it, it seems as if stress and anxiety have infected the culture in epic proportions. Equanimity is the taming of excesses of thought and emotion. A "monkey mind...
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Cerebrations: Sensual Love Is Sacred, Too
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Saturday, 31 May 2014. Sensual Love Is Sacred, Too. One of the most misunderstood words in spiritual lexicon is ‘desire’. Can Self-realisation only be attained in a state of perfect, unmoving desirelessness, as many believe? In the conflict between spirit and flesh, we are led to ask: does one necessarily preclude the other? Nothing wrong with desire. If all movement born of desire is snuffed out, then we are no better than automatons living a robotic life. What needs to be overcome is acquisitive de...
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Cerebrations: I Am That - Advaita's Pointing Illustrated
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Sunday, 10 May 2015. I Am That - Advaita's Pointing Illustrated. Stop trying to prove a point. Even if someone knows something that you don’t, whether they share it with you or not, makes no difference, for you have to come up with your own truth. There’s really no one in this universe that can hand you realization on a silver platter. 8212;————. The second prerequisite: You have to let go. You have to let go so completely that it becomes scary. You have to totally let go mentally. You do not hold it in.
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Cerebrations: Nine Stages of Attaining Bliss
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Saturday, 26 July 2014. Nine Stages of Attaining Bliss. The nine stages of samadhi are beautifully illustrated in this Mahamudra scroll. The nine stages of mahamudra are identical to the nine states of attention elucidated in my last post. The more I meet aspiring yogis or serious meditators, the more I realize how great the misconceptions are about meditation. What really pains my heart is that, most of the time, the seeker is not at fault. It's the teacher, the guru. The persistent meditator gets to th...
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Cerebrations: When Did “The Present” Begin?
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Saturday, 7 June 2014. When Did “The Present” Begin? It's a harder question than it sounds. Does the present refer to right this second? The past few years? Fortunately, science has the answer. Nuclear weapons so massively alter an environment, and an atmosphere, that they threw off the ratio of carbon-14 and carbon-12, even turning a lot of carbon-14 into. Basically, any radiocarbon testing done after January 1, 1950—a date agreed upon because it fell in the midst of the beginnings of nuclear test...
