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ABDO BREATHING RELAXES
WELL BEGUN IS 1/2 DONE
BE STRICT WITH YRSELF
DONT RESENT OTHERS
ASK YRSELF- IS THIS ESSENTIAL
AMOR FATI
BE GOOD DO GOOD
MEMENTO MORI - DTH INEVITABLE
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In India, the idea of a world-spanning mind was forged in the fire of competition from some of the world’s most radical sceptics, early Buddhists. Their no-self doctrine said that we are here today and gone tomorrow; in fact, we are not even really here today – we are just a cluster of changing elements. But the Hindu schools disagreed, pointing to the mind’s extraordinary capacity to outreach the spatiotemporal bubble in which each person resides. I might live in 2022 in Oxford, but I can share the experiences of persons in Thailand or the US, and imagine different lives I might have lived. With the help of scientists and philosophers, I understand levels of the cosmos that lie beyond the senses, and can access realities, values or ideas that cannot be destroyed with any mere physical bodyA
"Playing in the uncertainty" means embracing the unknown and approaching unpredictable situations with flexibility and curiosity. Rather than avoiding or trying to control uncertain outcomes, it involves engaging with them as opportunities for exploration, growth, and creativity. This mindset can lead to innovation, as it opens you to new ideas and solutions that might not be obvious in a more controlled environment. It’s about being adaptable and willing to experiment, even if you’re not sure what the outcome will be
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t is one thing to be conscious.
It is another thing to be aware that you are conscious.
There is an added depth to your experiencing.
Feel it now.
Instead of just reading this message.
Be aware that you are reading this message.
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Just start bringing that simple noticing into your experience whenever you remember to.
Having this experience is effortless. It is happening by itself.
Now, be aware that this experience is happening.
Feel the presence of that.
Feel the aliveness of that.
Just through this simple awareness, the spiritual dimension will begin to permeate the material dimension
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After 9/11, sales of unhealthy snack foods soared, too, as they did during the pandemic. It’s also true for personal disasters. For men, if you lose your job, your chances of adding 10 percent or more of your body weight shoot up
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Nature’s cycles remind us of our own. In grief, we often go through a personal deciduousness. Just as trees drop their leaves to conserve energy, we experience periods of shedding and slowing down. It can feel like an ending, but this process allows for rest and repair until spring returns.
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What is interesting is where this leaves humans, we curious confections of matter-constrained consciousness. We can do something extraordinary: our mental parts can climb out of the window of the body, and up into the higher levels of reality. There we have access to an unconstrained realm of ideas, meanings and values (as Plato agreed). But even more than that, each of us is an undepleting fount of higher realities for as long as we live. Thus, becoming the world means living from the perspective of reality and knowingly contributing to it in all we do. In the phrase of the existentialist Martin Heidegger, we become the ‘Shepherds of Being’.
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BREATHING TECHNIQUES ONCE YOU HAVE REALIZED YOU HAVE BEEN PROBABLY BREATHING THE ‘WRONG WAY’ MOST OF YOUR LIFE, USING YOUR LUNGS AT A LOWER CAPACITY THAN IT HAS BEEN INTENDED BY NATURE, IT IS IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND IT WILL BE NEVER TOO LATE TO RECLAIM YOUR BREATH, AND THROUGH IT, YOUR HEALTH. THE FOLLOWING BREATHING METHODS ARE MEANT TO DEMONSTRATE, HOW YOU CAN LEARN TO BREATHE RIGHT ONCE AGAIN.
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When my atheist engineer grandfather died, my atheist engineer grandmother leaned over the body in the hospice bed that had contained half a century of shared life and love, cradled the cranium in which his stubborn and sensitive mind had dwelt, and whispered into the halogen-lit ether:
“Where did you go, my darling?”
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Whatever our beliefs, these sensemaking playthings of the mind, when the moment of material undoing comes, we — creatures of moment and matter — simply cannot fathom how something as exquisite as the universe of thought and feeling inside us can vanish into nothingness.
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Life is an evolutionary experience. That means your time is finite —diminishing returns took over the minute you were born. Every experience should be worth your time.
Master your emotions. Tame your ego. Your emotional state determines your actions. Your emotional health is key to your best self.
Life is not fair or linear. Not everything will go as planned. Your next action after a setback can set you up for a better comeback.
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Even Walt Whitman, who could hold such multitudes of contradiction, could not grasp the void. “I will make poems of my body and of mortality,” he vowed as a young man as he reverenced our shared materiality in his timeless declamation that “every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.” It was easy, from the shimmering platform of his prime, to look forward to becoming “the uncut hair of graves” upon returning his own atoms to the grassy ground one day.
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But then, when that day loomed near as he grew old and infirm, “the poet of the body and the poet of the soul” suddenly could not fathom the total disbanding of his atomic selfhood, suddenly came to “laugh at what you call dissolution.”
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BAGH NARAYAN - SRK
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SAH SAH SAH - FOREBEAR
PHOSS KORA
BAGH NARAYAN
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MAAN HOOSH - MANUSH - SELF DIGNITY - SRK
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The clouds, the trees, the ants, the wind, the moon, the shadows, the sun-drenched coin you passed on the road—all are whispering to you in the foreign tongue of wonder. You used to be fluent before you knew these things had names. We confuse knowing the name with knowing them. We don't know them. We can never fully know them. But we can drop the pretense that we do.
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SHAHO SHAHO SHAHO
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JE SHAHE SE RAHE
JE NA SAHE , TAR NASH HOY
SRK
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MONE RAKHIYO TOMAKEO ONEKE SAHYA KARE
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SAHYA KARO - DO NOT REACT
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MA SARDA = KATHA DIYE KAO KE AGHAT KORO NA
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SRK NEXT LEVEL PHOSS KORO
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A relative newcomer to the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) has broken a six-year drought in the search for the next prime oasis in a desert of boring ol' composite numbers.
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GAP OUT WITHIN
If I close my eyes for a moment and stay focused on my inner self. I immediately notice feelings, hopes, thoughts, desires, fears, and a general sense of myself. This is the inner me, right? Well, no.
If I am aware of something, then it is not really me. The part of me that is aware is the real me (the atman). It is not something I am aware of. If I keep doing it, I will discover that everything I think of myself right now (including my ego and mind) is not aware. My awareness is not the same as those things. The person who appears in my head, the person I believe myself to be, is nothing more than a psychological and social illusion.
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Psychology is a study of the mind, and the mind, like the body, can suffer from psychological diseases and imbalances. A person's psychology reflects the state of their mind, tendencies, and qualities. The mind always has psychology because it is a product of time and external experiences that leave their distinct imprints. On the other hand, our true self appears to lack psychology because it is unconditioned consciousness, the witness, and awareness beyond time and mind.
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While the mind engages in mental activity, the inner being, like a mirror, consists solely of unconditioned awareness. This means that if I can deepen my awareness of my inner being, I can transcend all psychological suffering. Raising my awareness to the inner consciousness beyond the mind and its dualities is the ultimate solution to psychological problems. Though many external factors such as diet, behaviour, breathing, and the senses can help, it ultimately requires a shift in our awareness from a mind-based to pure consciousness.
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“Everything is energy and that's all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.”
― Darryl Anka
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What causes this? It is in part, Tim suspects, because these chemicals have an effect on your brain. You drink something sweet, and it expects a surge of energy from sugar. Everything in our evolution primes you for it. When it doesn’t come—when your brain realizes it’s been tricked—it responds by making you more hungry, to give it that fresh surge of energy it was expecting, and so “you suddenly want cake.” Susan’s groundbreaking studies have led her to believe that the presence of artificial sweeteners in our diets might be one of the big drivers of the obesity crisis
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In the cremation, her water evaporated. Her carbon and nitrogen combined with oxygen to make gaseous carbon dioxide and nitrogen dioxide, which floated skyward and mingled with the air. Most of her calcium and phosphorous baked into a reddish brown residue and scattered in soil and in wind.
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But then we see that every atom belonging to her — or, rather, temporarily borrowed by her — truly does belong to everything and everyone, just as you and I are now inhaling the same oxygen atoms that once inflated Walt Whitman’s lungs with the lust for life:
Released from their temporary confinement, her atoms slowly spread out and diffused through the atmosphere. In sixty days’ time, they could be found in every handful of air on the planet. In one hundred days, some of her atoms, the vaporous water, had condensed into liquid and returned to the surface as rain, to be drunk and ingested by animals and plants. Some of her atoms were absorbed by light-utilizing organisms and transformed into tissues and tubules and leaves. Some were breathed in by oxygen creatures, incorporated into organs and bone.
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“I grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and I was a street kid. There was one aspect of that environment that, for some reason, struck me as different, and that was the stars. … I could tell they were lights in the sky, but that wasn’t an explanation. I mean, what were they? Little electric bulbs on long black wires, so you couldn’t see what they were held up by? What were they? … My mother said to me, “Look, we’ve just got you a library card … get out a book and find the answer.” … It was in there. It was stunning. The answer was that the Sun was a star, except very far away. … The dazzling idea of a universe vast beyond imagining swept over me. … I sensed awe.”
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The oldest prayers of Hindu culture included questions of a uniquely philosophical nature. One poem from around 800 BCE lamented: ‘What thing I am, I know not clearly,’ and another demanded to know:
Why were we born? By what do we live? On what are we established? Governed by what… do we live…?
The rise of systematic philosophy offered a solution. Those who used induction (the process of generalising new information and abstract principles from the visible world) and deduction (discovering unseen truths hidden within our existing knowledge) came to be seen as rishis or seers, with a unique power to look into the heart of reality. The Mundaka Upanishad tells us that the mind is an arrow able to send thought deep into the imperishable nature of reality – ‘Strike it!’ the author says.
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Even if we understand that dying is the token of our existential luckiness, even if we understand that we are borrowed stardust, bound to be returned to the universe that made it — a universe itself slouching toward nothingness as its stars are slowly burning out their energy to leave a cold austere darkness of pure spacetime — this understanding blurs into an anxious disembodied abstraction as the body slouches toward dissolution. Animated by electrical impulses and temporal interactions of matter, our finite minds simply cannot grasp a timeless and infinite inanimacy — a void beyond being.
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cyanobacteria
Cyanobacteria still play an essential role in modern coral reef ecosystems by forming a major component of epiphytic, epilithic, and endolithic communities as well as of microbial mats. Cyanobacteria are grazed by reef organisms and also provide nitrogen to the coral reef ecosystems through nitrogen fixation.
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Pulling in carbon dioxide, breaking water molecules apart with the power of light, splicing the elements to build living material, and releasing oxygen gas in tiny puffs, they slowly transformed the atmosphere, and the planet along with it, until Earth could power the organic engines of animal life—muscles, nervous systems, brains
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SUFFRNG FOLLOWS LON
1ST ARROW - TREAT
2ND ARROW- AVPID X GAP OUT
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