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Indian yogis

Interesting excerpts. A lot that can be validated by recorded history. "Hail to thee, O teacher of Brahmins!" Onesikritos said after seeking out Dandamis in his forest retreat. "The son of the mighty God Zeus, being Alexander who is the Sovereign Lord of all men, asks you to go to him, and if you comply, he will reward you with great gifts, but if you refuse, he will cut off your head!" The yogi received this fairly compulsive invitation calmly, and "did not so much as lift up his head from his couch of leaves." "I also am a son of Zeus, if Alexander be such," he commented. "I want nothing that is Alexander's, for I am content with what I have, while I see that he wanders with his men over sea and land for no advantage, and is never coming to an end of his wanderings. "Go and tell Alexander that God the Supreme King is never the Author of insolent wrong, but is the Creator of light, of peace, of life, of water, of the bod...

The fire and the sun

What's the difference between a fire and the sun I ask? Maybe just the size of the task? The scale at which they operate? The basis of life to exist and procreate? But every night the sun goes, and leaves just a pale moon's reflection behind In the desert, on a cold winter night, it's the fire that sustains your kind. Did I just try to negate the basis of a phenomenon to satisfy a little fire? But I say why bow to the sun and ignore the fire? The tiny fire is an expression of the sun near you. Just like Him, burning itself away to sustain you, indiscriminate warm and bright He might light up the sky, but he lights up the night What to do poor guy only gets to eat coal and wood, Smoking and puffing,  because that's all gather you could And yes, he's not big enough to warm you from a million miles away But he's yours to keep, whenever, wherever, night or day. What meaning has size or scale? In an infinite abyss anyway But that's not really it isn't it It...

Walls

The walls you build to protect yourself imprison you too They are walls they can't differentiate false from true The walls you build to make sure nothing happens to you, make sure that nothing ever happens to you They are walls, they can't differentiate good or bad for you The walls that you build to keep out the rain, keep the sun out too Stop building these walls you fool Or if the rain has been hard and you obsessed over walls build your doors and windows a little more tall What you're trying to protect cannot be protected Your time's limited and your life neglected Build some walls, but don't forget the doors Embrace the sun, and the rain too as it pours Your choices are either to live as life comes willingly or live as life comes unwillingly life comes nevertheless, and then it goes.

Fire and Frost bite

Fire is dangerous. But the danger is visible. It's excessive energy, scary, volatile, visible. But frost-bite, or the cold icy dangers work in a very different way. You see, it's easier to guard against fire, because you can see the mercurial nature of things. It's harmful, but it feels like a known danger. Because among other things, the transition from life affirming to lethal is quite obvious. You immediately know that you need to employ all your self preservation techniques from this moment forward. In other words, it's a known danger. But the cold creeps in slowly and quietly. You don't get to guard against it, and even though sometimes the dangers are visible (like how there's snow everywhere), but your delusions can make you think you're in a tropical paradise , and make you even want to strip to your underwear. It's like the cold lovingly comes and takes your armour away, and before you can realize that's what it's doing, you...

Wubba Lubba Dub Dub

Depression is not about being sad. Well, it's as much about being sad as having a cold is about sneezing. Sure, that's the most obvious symptom. But trying to fix depression by trying to make someone laugh or feel a bit better is about as effective as putting a finger under the nose to stop the sneezing. Okay, crappy analogy, sure, but the point I'm trying to drive is, that the very obvious sadness is just a consequence or a symptom of a deeper rooted problem. And the deeper rooted problem is that of disconnect. The kind of disconnect that prevents you from getting truly involved with life. Whether it comes from feeling that you're worse off than everything around you, or way smarter/better than everything around you. The result is the same. This lack of involvement in your life means, that all solutions that are tried, to pull you out, become ineffective because of the distance you maintain from everything. After everything passes, whether it's a great social...

The one about the Universe

Uhh, I have theories, that sound so freaking far fetched, that you'd have trouble seeing me as a sane or credible person, however, I can mostly account for a sound basis for why I believe that theory, but it kind of goes beyond all our current ideas of western science, philosophy, history and the world..! I wish my writing ability had not decreased, I've tried to articulate them on the blog, but they always turn out sounding so bad..! Anyway, let's choose a starting point. Modern society or the current form of civilization or modern history as they call it, according to the world, is about 6000 years old. i.e. we believe that civilization among humans started to happen at max about 6000 years ago. Mesopotamia is about 3100 BC, Mohan jodaro is about 2500 BC as is harappa, about 2600 BC. Humans in the current evolved form as homo sapiens have existed on the planet Earth for about 200,000 years. and when I talk about the sapiens, I'm not even talking about homo nean...

The Nature of Truth

2+2=4 is a fact. A universal fact. an absolute fact one would say. But informationally (if I may make my own words) speaking, it is limited. Let me be a bit clearer. Someone, somewhere, someday wrote an equation, 2x + 3y = 5; they tried multiple values of x and y, and found that it looked like a line. Someone else, tried out another equation, 3x + 8y = 24, and they realized this equation also looked like a line when it was plotted. Someone then tried this with a few more numbers and realized, that a line looks like this ax + by = c where a,b,c are constants, and x,y are real numbers. This new equation with variables, was informationally superior to 2+2=4. It related a set of numbers instead of just a couple of specific numbers, and it defined properties of theirs. However, it added variables, or uncertain numbers to the equation, and for it to be true, it defined domains for those variables. Thus, one could argue, trading off certainty or even even absolute-ness for informat...