On Inadvertence
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The online Merriam-Webster dictionary defines Inadvertence as: a result of inattention. This word comes up many times in Nisargadatta Maharaj’s conversations collected together in ‘I am That’. I have been recently thinking that what Maharaj says about inadvertence or inattention…
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Learning is effortless
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Read more: Learning is effortlessPrinciple 1 of true teaching: Nothing can be taughtAll learning happens within the child. No teacher can have direct control over it. The teacher is a helper and a guide. They can only attempt to draw the attention of the…
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Narayan Ashram Retreat
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Read more: Narayan Ashram RetreatI have just got back home from the SIDH retreat at Narayan Ashram. This retreat was unique in many ways. Firstly, Narayan Ashram set at an altitude of 9000 feet on the India-Nepal border is very difficult to get to.…
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Materialism – The Cult of the Mother Goddess
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Read more: Materialism – The Cult of the Mother GoddessIn a recent YouTube video, Dr Rupert Sheldrake discussed various aspects of matter. At around the 31 minute mark he proposed that Materialism, the worship of matter, was really the unconscious worship of the Great Mother. The relevant excerpt from…
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On Tentativeness
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Read more: On TentativenessLately I have been thinking about a child-like tentativeness in thought and behaviour as a desirable trait. I will quote two ancient Chinese sages and let them present the case for me. Take a look and let me know what…
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Four Ideas on Education
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Read more: Four Ideas on EducationA friend with young school-going children was recently talking to me about education. Some ideas came up in the conversation that I thought were worth sharing here as this week’s blog post. Imagine a classroom with many children working on…
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The Future of the Body – Part 3
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Read more: The Future of the Body – Part 3(The Future of the Body is a remarkable book that has an encyclopedic cross-cultural study of the extraordinary potentials that human beings embody. Of the 12 capacities that the book identifies and details out, the following are the notes I…
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The Future of the Body – Part 2
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Read more: The Future of the Body – Part 2(In last week’s post we looked at the overview of a remarkable book, The Future of the Body, that has an encyclopedic cross-cultural study of the extraordinary potentials that human beings embody. This week and the next I will share…
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The Future of the Body
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Read more: The Future of the Body‘The Future of the Body: Explorations Into the Further Evolution of Human Nature’ is the title of an 800 page scholarly book (the bibliography is 85 pages long) by Michael Murphy. When I read it many years ago I was…
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On Thinking for Yourself
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Read more: On Thinking for YourselfThe following are excerpts from an essay written by Arthur Schopenhauer in 1851 and translated into English by L.P. Koch. The full essay is available here. Excerpt 1:Reading, you see, forces thoughts on your mind that are as foreign and…
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The lost tools of learning
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Read more: The lost tools of learning(I recently came across an interesting paper on British education written in 1947 by Dorothy Sayers. I thought that the paper had many insights that are relevant to our current Indian education system. Take a look at the excerpt below…
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Adhyatma aur prakriti prem
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Read more: Adhyatma aur prakriti premI was again listening to a video of Guruji Ravindra Sharma and a sentence he said struck me this time. He said that someone who is not adhyatmik can have no prem for prakriti. (Around 43:00 of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-pMQeKe8GI). In this…
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