I have spent a long time in my life confusing freedom and independence. I recently distinguished for myself the difference between the two. And when I distinguished it for myself – a whole new world of being human opened up. Stated simply: Independence is the ability to be and do, without barriers / obstruction / [...]
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Prashanth Udupa on August 20th, 2012
I am truly indebted to the conversation of Mastery in Life generated by Werner Erhard. Towards the end of that event – he engaged all of us in a conversation that allowed me to experience “who I am” in a whole new way. Almost two years later, I participated in “Direct Access” (a program from Landmark Education) where my [...]
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Ever since I did the Landmark Forum in 2009, I have been curious as to know the source of their material. I looked around in libraries, book shops and Wikipedia for hints. Any book that had “Nothingness”, “Racket”, “Strong Suit”, “Being”, “Possibility” in its title or content was catching my attention. I also bought a [...]
Philosophy becomes a subject matter of interest when we end up asking two very important questions to ourselves. (1) What is life (or more specifically my life) all about? and (2) How should I live? Once we start our careers, earn some money and gather some property (home / stuff-for-home / car / other fancy [...]
Every aspect of “living” is a present-continuous process. For example: breathing, heart-beat, sleeping, eating food etc. In order live, one has to be breathing. It doesnt matter if one has been breathing for the last 10 years – if one isnt breathing right now, he is dead! Living a transformed life is just like that. [...]
Suppose that you are standing by the tree in front of your house. Suppose that a cycle and car pass by you in the same direction. You would probably observe two things: both the cycle and the car passed by you and the car moved faster than the cycle. If you dwell on this for [...]
”on the contrary, it’s only through damaging the ego completely, and nullifying it, and then realizing that you’re still alive and it doesn’t mean anything, that you realize that it’s [the ego] not important…” – Hrithik Roshan Read the full interview here- http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/news-interviews/We-couldnt-afford-rent-Hrithik-Roshan/articleshow/9492955.cms
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In most of my blog-posts, I make it a point to write directly about myself. The idea there is to not generalize what I notice in myself for the rest of humanity. But then there are some observations that we can make that holds good for a large section of the population – which includes [...]
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I have been reading this book called Tell-a-tale Brain from V. S. Ramachandran. I must say that his books are just as pleasing to read as it is to listening to his talks. The book brings together the author’s findings from several years of research about the human brain. With interesting tales, research findings and [...]
Over the years, I have found out something about me – I am generally glad to find a punch-bag. Everytime I encounter situations that are uncomfortable for me, that are an irritation for me or that show me in bad-light; I simply go to my punch-bag and beat it up. The more I get present to [...]
