Calm balm numb and dumb

CBNAD stone or Witcon

All stuck with the fxxk

Mrityur jonno bosey bosey opekhha kora

Ashanti. Juddho. Jhagra. Conflict of interest

Sakshi Chaitanya

DPOS. Relign

B Greene. Vedanta. Poetic rendering of modern cosmological stance

Dukkha. Tajya. Divya. Brahman. Nam Roop Lila

Mthr ill. Come quick

Atman roopi Krsna is in Body Dwarka

Brahma Rajoguna. Vishnu Satwik. Shiva Tamas

Ishwar. Maya vishisht Chaitanya

Gd is beyond logic

Brahman. Ishwar. Bhagwan

At least had a good sendoff. D

AWKRSNA

 Nearly half of the adult population of the United States and one-third of the world-wide population has high high blood pressure.

Hypertension is a leading cause of heart disease and stroke yet the strategies to control the condition remain poor.

A study offers a solution for treating high blood pressure by giving patients a pill containing a quarter dose of four common medicines.

The quadpill which contains irbesartan, amlodipine, indapamide and bisoprolol has been shown to be more successful in treating hypertension than the routine practice of relying on a single drug.

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COGNITIVE HUNGER 

Higher intelligence drives ‘cognitive hunger’.

Openness to experience is the personality trait most strongly linked to higher intelligence, research finds.

People who are open to experience tend to be intellectually curious, imaginative, seekers of variety and sensitive to their feelings.

Naturally, people who are open to experience like trying out new activities and ideas.

Openness to experience is one of the fivemajor aspects of personality, along with conscientiousness, neuroticism, agreeableness and extraversion.

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. A case in point is the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill in the United Kingdom. This was amended in 2021 to cover octopuses and lobsters (among others), following a report by a working party at The London School of Economics. Jonathan Birch, Charlotte Burn, Alexandra Schnell, Heather Browning, and Andrew Crump (2021). ‘Review of the Evidence of Sentience in Cephalopod Molluscs and Decapod Crustaceans’ (London: LSE Consulting).

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The problem of perceptual space

A mother takes George, her 6-year-old child, to the zoo. An elephant stands 20 feet away separated by a low wall and a moat. George looks at the elephant. Light from the elephant is focused on George’s retina and digitized into a staccato stream of nerve impulses, which then race along the million fibers in each optic nerve. Note that the elephant did not enter George’s brain; coded impulses did. The visual signals are processed, and the next thing George knows the elephant appears in his visual perceptual space. George is the percipient, but what and where is the percept, that is, the elephant? Milliseconds before the percept appeared, all of the information describing the elephant consisted of nerve signals; the brain did not construct a flesh-and-blood pachyderm. George’s neurons exist in physical space but the percept itself is not a physical object in physical space; it is a nonphysical construct in nonphysical space. The percept is also scale free; it has no size. A 5-ton elephant will not fit into the head of a 50-pound child.

The real, physical elephant is 20 feet away from George, and the visual image that George enjoys seems to correspond with that estimated distance. However, we know that the neural machinery producing the percept is in the brain—so is the percept inside or outside George’s brain? The answer is neither, and therein lies the problem.

To assign a location in physical space, either inside or outside the skull, to a nonphysical object in nonphysical space is a nonsequitur. As Bertrand Russell pointed out 90 years ago, “Physical and perceptual space have relations, but they are not identical, and failure to grasp the difference between them is a potent source of confusion.”1 An enormous amount of time and effort has been spent in the search for the fabled anatomical correlate of consciousness. The percept is in fact a veridical illusion. Like a rainbow, it is real but intangible.

The problem with consciousness is to explain the subjective with objective empirical measurements

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BIG SLP

 From ~~~ Guru Ramana, P.II, Ch.III

Bhagavan :

Think of God and attachments will gradually drop from you.

If you wait till all desires disappear

to start your devotion and prayer,

you will have to wait a very, very long time indeed.

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The Cockroach Theory

The cockroach theory for self-development

At a restaurant, a cockroach suddenly flew from somewhere and sat on a lady.

She started screaming out of fear.

With a panic-stricken face and trembling voice, she started jumping, with both her hands desperately trying to get rid of the cockroach.

Her reaction was contagious, as everyone in her group also got panicky.

The lady finally managed to push the cockroach away but ...it landed on another lady in the group.

Now, it was the turn of the other lady in the group to continue the drama.

The waiter rushed forward to their rescue.

In the relay of throwing, the cockroach next fell upon the waiter.

The waiter stood firm, composed himself and observed the behaviour of the cockroach on his shirt.

When he was confident enough, he grabbed it with his fingers and threw it out of the restaurant.

Sipping my coffee and watching the amusement, the antenna of my mind picked up a few thoughts and started wondering, was the cockroach responsible for their histrionic behaviour?

If so, then why was the waiter not disturbed?

He handled it near to perfection, without any chaos.

It is not the cockroach, but the inability of those people to handle the disturbance caused by the cockroach, that disturbed the ladies.

I realized that it is not the shouting of my father or my boss or my wife that disturbs me, but it's my inability to handle the disturbances caused by their shouting that disturbs me.

It's not the traffic jams on the road that disturbs me, but my inability to handle the disturbance caused by the traffic jam that disturbs me.

More than the problem, it's my reaction to the problem that creates chaos in my life.

Lessons learnt from the story:

I understood I should not react in life.

I should always respond.

The women reacted, whereas the waiter responded.

Reactions are always instinctive whereas responses are always well thought of.

A beautiful way to understand

LIFE.

The HAPPY person is not because Everything is RIGHT in his Life.

He is HAPPY because his Attitude towards Everything in his Life is Right!

credits to: Divya Bhrambhatt

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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

PRESEPTAL CELLULITIS IM CEFTRXN

 The brains of people with high IQ have very efficient wiring, research shows.

The brain’s ‘wiring’ or ‘white matter’ refers to the nerve fibres that transmit information between areas.

White matter is sometimes called the superhighway of the brain: it transmits signals and regulates communication.

People with more efficient white matter, the study found, had greater general knowledge.

General knowledge — or as psychologists call it, crystallised intelligence — is one of two broad aspects of intelligence.

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"All great and precious things are lonely,"

SAMUEL HAMILTON a A A I think it's quite possible that phenomenal consciousness arrived relatively late and long after cognitive consciousness was already in place. If that's so, for much of history, our ancestors could have been cognitively conscious but not phenomenally conscious—conscious but insentient. And presumably the same could still be true of many animals today A SRM  To him who is one with that Reality [of Pure Consciousness], there is neither the mind nor its three states, and therefore, neither introversion nor extroversion. (Bhagavān in 'Maharshi's Gospel': book II, ch. VI) A A A Following Ramana's method, if I ask myself 'Who am I?' during meditation, am I not doing the opposite of meditation i.e. contemplating on a thought? ‘Who am I’ was of course central to the teachings of Ramana Maharishi. But we will come to that later. You say ‘Who am I?’ is a thought. We will discuss this first. It is true that this begins as a thought. But, how far can you think? I am a body? No, I ‘have’ a body and not ‘am’ a body. I am a mind? No, it is a flux of thoughts with no independent existence for itself. I am a soul? Ah, that’s an idea, that I can believe, but I really don’t know. I am a name, a degree, a relationship………..? No, those are my attributes or possessions, and not ‘me’. Done in less than two minutes? Now, what else will you be grinding in your mind over years of ‘Who am I’ meditation? If you are reasonably intelligent, you will quickly negate the above answers given by your mind, and begin questioning your awareness from which your mind itself springs out. Now, the mind becomes silent, and ‘Who am I’ happens as ‘awareness non-verbally pondering awareness’ This is the ‘Who am I’ meditation taught by the Maharishi. He called it the direct method. If the direct method is difficult, people can take to other methods like chanting, other kinds of meditation, and so on, and come back to the direct method again in time. This too had been advised by the Maharishi. Best Wishes! sjr A A What the Science Says Scientists conducted a study in 2008 to measure the brain activity of people thinking and feeling gratitude. What they found was "that gratitude causes synchronized activation in multiple brain regions, and lights up parts of the brain’s reward pathways and the hypothalamus. In short, gratitude can boost neurotransmitter serotonin and activate the brain stem to produce dopamine." Dopamine is our brain's pleasure chemical. The more we think positive, grateful thoughts, the healthier and happier we feel. a THURBER - "It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. A a As the list of indoor air pollutants keeps growing, so dotheknown unknowns a IGNORANCE - F IF I KNOW A A A A A Would it have to be fraud? It could be art. A magnificent example of art that was apparently inspired by accident may be seen in palaeolithic cave painting. It has often been remarked that the artists who decorated the walls of caves such as Lascaux and Chauvet incorporated existing features of the rock into their paintings of animals. It seems more than likely that the artist, looking at a virgin rock face, saw the head of a horse, the shoulder of a bison, the mane of a lion already prefigured there, and was duly amazed; then he or she carefully applied paint to fix and exaggerate the fleeting impression A NKB  A Historians may assume the inventor ofthe wheel was anadult, butit could have actually beena child a DIOGENES -  "The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted." A A As Herm an Hesse said o f the fellow travelers in his Journey to the East, each had his or her own special reason for making the journey but all also shared a com mon goal. We came with our varying hues o f cynicism and faith, open- or closed-heartedness, sensuality or asceticism, intellectual arrogance or humility. As Herm an Hesse said o f the fellow travelers in his Journey to the East, each had his or her own special reason for making the journey but all also shared a com mon goal. We came with our varying hues o f cynicism and faith, open- or closed-heartedness, sensuality or asceticism, intellectual arrogance or humility.

Living in the Spirit

Karmavaad. Punarjanmavaad

Jatosoey Dhruva Mrityu

Krsna. The Attractor

Sorry. Not sorry

Just be a Witness

NOT AS FAR AWAY AS ASTRAY

 "If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you."

-- A.A. Milne

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IPJ - CUT OFF FILMS IF RECOGNISED, ONLY 1 - HE LOOKS LIKE.....

ENOCH JOSHUA DRACULATHWAITE FRM YRKSHR

WHERE DID 50 YEARS GO? DONT ASK ME, I WASNT LOOKING

AFTER ROTI KAPRA AND MAKAN , IT ALL DEPENDS WHERE U GET YR DOPAMINE FROM - MNY WLTH FAME RESEARCH GOD

NO PEACE OR THE WICKED X DONT INTERRUPT MY BOREDOM

Processing of mind. Manas. Churning

Memory. Smriti

Clarity. Buddhi. I get it. 

Ego. Ahankara. Manager. 

But the I is not I. In Advaita. 

Sleep. Samadhi. I ego shuts down 

Attack the mine. Before attacking the I. Nirmama. Nothing mine. All belongs to Lord.  Easy to step back from I. Namaha. Na mamaha. Not mine. Thine Thine O God

Nirahankar. Transcend the ego

7 steps to Consciousness

Jagat

Panchabhuta bilasha   Matter. Energy. Space. Time. Play of 5 elements. 

Maya bilasha. Relativity. Uncertainty. Incomplete ness. Hard problem of matter. God playing a joke on us. God underestimated humans 

Play of Maya is play of consciousness. Chit bilasha. Lila.  Kashmiri Shaivism   Can Consciousness play?  

Chit vivarta. Whatever appears in Consciousness is non different from Consciousness   Appears in a flash

Chinmayam. Pervaded by Consciousness 

Chin matram. Consciousness only

7 stages

JP. MC. VCC

Jaiprakash. Mcdonald. Vivekananda. Chinmoy. Chinmayananda

Sat. Existence. I am in all beings. All beings in me. Just as in a dream. Chit. All universe in Consciousness.

Self reference. Question of existence

Nothing buttery. Deepest thing is existence

Arnedt. Banality of evil

Heidenger. Nazi. Existence is deepest question. Widest. Deepest. Most fundamental question

Why even BB. QFOV. Why does even that exist?

Existence apart from existing thing eg table chair

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Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation... Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation. - Jean Arp 

That existence you are Not a little boy Swetaketu

Existence is all in Self

Everything seen is non dual to Consciousness

Just like the universe in dream non different from I the dreamer

Whatever appears in Consciousness is part of Consciousness

Entire universe is like a city seen in the mirror

Reality is in Is ness. Water is. Sky is

I has All become. All has become I

U r already free.

Rago Dwesha Mano Dharma

Habit patterns. Karma. Body will drop once the 500K karmas drop off

I am Sakshi. My ego feels humiliated by that person. Give the power back to Sakshi from the Ego

This person is like a wave in my knowingness. 

He is stuck in his ego

Sakshi knows but does not jump in

Awareness is Nirguna. Awareness in activity is Mind. Mind at rest brings forth Awareness

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"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes." A A A A Truly splendid uselessness nourishes and elevates us spiritually, rather than simply providing a rush of mental or bodily pleasure A Why does ESP fascinate? What is it about ESP that captures the imagination? Is it a challenge to contemporary science’s physical-only worldview? A desire to re-mythologize the world? A hope that death may not be the final-forever end of personal consciousness? a a A Imagine blind salamander in dark cave, suddenly touch by ur finger, what it will think, who touching me , no bodies here. yes universe is more mysterious than we know. a Why is communication important & how do we communicate? We communicate through energy! The receptors read vibrational energy fields such as light, sound and radio frequencies, and if the receptor is attuned to the particular frequency it can alter the proteins and change the shape of the receptor. This is the one of the ways our cells are impacted by the vibrational Universe. “Thought waves” and “emotional waves” being of obvious importance in the field effect on biology. We are immersed in living fields of vibrational information. Each of us is a spirit in material form. A a a  a A a Beautiful tools make work a joy. –GRETCHEN RUBIN A A DIET- LO CAL HI PR HI FBR  A dbl slit expt a DMN BEGETS DEMONS  A A a a A Wonder and the Goddess Matter and the body have been traditionally associated with the feminine; often in the West they have been denigrated as a result. Not just in the West, however, in India we also find the same typology, with matter associated with the feminine and spirit or consciousness, in contrast, associated with the masculine. This appears early with Samkhya philosophy linking the materiality of the world with the feminine prakṛti and aligning the masculine puruşa with spirit, consciousness. Images of the Goddess within India traditionally associate her also with matter, materiality, and bodies. What does this do for wonder, given its associations with matter? In the epigraph with which I start this chapter, Abhinavagupta unpacks the equation of wonder with subjectivity. Not surprisingly, given his Tantric affiliation, this involves a revalorization of the feminine, as it is the Goddess who exemplifies this coupling of wonder with subjectivity. He tells us in the Paratriśikā Vivarana: The powerful mantra of this visible world is the Goddess of Speech, Paravak. She is the mantra "aham." ("I"). Her innate and spontaneous essence is the rapture of wonder (camatkara). As it is said, "all visible phenomena rest in the Self, which is the T-feeling. This is a secret beyond all secrets. Tracing out the terms here, we see that speech, as a function and as a goddess, is integral to the sense of subjectivity, the "I." Additionally, at base, speech is rooted in a kind of wonder, for us perhaps paradoxically, since we tend to associate wonder with a kind of speechlessness. Yet here, the very essence of speech is wonder. I suspect that Abhinavagupta points here to an introspective insight, an awareness of wonder as the basis out of which speech bubbles forth. If we penetrate through to the origin of speech, at the core is a kind of rapture - wonder that is simply the sense of subjectivity, the "I" (aham). This wonder, which is subjectivity, he apostrophizes as Goddess. To highlight this insight's counterintuitive importance, this, he tells us, is a very big secret (guhyam atirahasyam). We might understand this phenomenologically as an awareness that arises from articulating the sense of "I," of subjectivity. At the very beginning of saying "I" there is the expansive rapture that includes a nondemarcated self. This unadulterated subjectivity is what we experience in wonder. The secret here is recognizing in an experience of wonder our own subjectivity encompassing the multiplicity of objects and matter that we see in the world. Source : Contemplative Studies and Hinduism - Meditation, Devotion, Prayer, and Worship a "To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. The more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind." ~ Mahatma Gandhi "Teaching a child to love all earthlings is the highest form of education." (Unknown) "Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened." ~ Anatole France “Anyone who has no feelings for animals has a dead heart.” ~ Raegan Butcher "Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage." ~ Aurobindo Ghose "Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem." ~ Alan Alexander Milne "We are a species that has lost its way. Everything natural, every flower or tree, and every animal have important lessons to teach us if we would only stop, look, and listen." ~ Eckhart Tolle "The Awareness with which all people and animals are aware of anything is the very same Awareness with which you are aware of these words right now. Treat people and animals as such, that is, as your very own self." ~ Rupert Spira "Don't say, "It's going around." Say, "She is going around." Aren't animals living beings and in reality the Self as well? Animals wear the animal body and humans wear the human body. We all wear different bodies like different shirts, but in reality we are all the same being." ~ Ramana Maharshi a A A a A

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PHOBIAS TRIGGER HYPERRESPONSE FROM AMYGDALA

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SINKHOLE IN BCONSFLD BACK GARDEN

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1) anger is of no use 2) ends up in disaster 3) detrimental to the calmness of your mind 4) judgement and understanding gets distorted 5) living without anger is 100% possible

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