Spooky Action at a Distance: DNA's "Impossible" Telepathic Properties
posted by Renee Reeser Zelnick on April 27, 2008 at 05:57 PM
I'm sure this is old news for this crowd:
DNA has been found to have a bizarre ability to put itself together, even at a distance, when according to known science it shouldn't be able to. Explanation: None, at least not yet.
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GOD IS A JOKE: AND GURU PITKA IS LAUGHING
posted by Gotham Chopra on April 24, 2008 at 11:03 PM
Is it so wrong to crave a coca cola in the middle of the night? Am I fallible because my mind occasionally drifts in meditation? Am I a deviant Indian because I cannot truly sit Indian style? Should I be ashamed for becoming aroused during a very intimate lap dance?
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Pangea Day
posted by Kanika Sethi on April 14, 2008 at 11:34 AM
Just caught this online -- a moving rendition of Indian's National Anthem sung by a Kenyan choir. (They also have a video of a Japanese opera singer singing for Turkey, Australians doing the Lebanese Anthem and the French singing The Star Spangled Banner.)
Here's the link. Enjoy! I really love this kind of thing.
I am ready
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on April 05, 2008 at 07:18 AM
I am ready to fold my world
And place it in my shirt pocket
I am sorry folks as you all
are going to be crumpled
close to my heart.
But I am ready to fold my life
and keep on walking.
A Blue Spill
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on March 30, 2008 at 06:43 AM
All blue has spilled now
the skin is open and raw
Everything is scorched
it has been a long day of forever
There is happiness of funerals
and a sadness of weddings.
A sensation of lost and found
at the same moment of time
Spaceless horizons
crowding my chest.
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Soul of Taj
posted by Vikas Khanna on March 05, 2008 at 09:57 PM
On Feb 4th,"World Chefs Cooking for Life" hosted "Soul of Taj" at the Taj Mahal in India, the second event in the series of culinary events at the World Wonders. Soul of Taj supports Sankara's Mission to Help Eradicate Curable Blindness in India - Vision 20/20 by 2020.
The first event in the World Chefs series was held at The Pyramids of Giza in Egypt to raise awareness for the needs of travelers with disabilities.
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Pee with the door open
posted by Max Simon on March 02, 2008 at 08:47 AM
For the last week, two of my good friends have been staying with me. Malik is an amazing conscious musician who performed at our last event and will again at our next event and Shulay is vibrant woman with deep insights and a warm soul. Both will soon be Awareness Architects.
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Of Love and Elixir: Your favourite Love Poem(s)
posted by DK Matai on February 29, 2008 at 10:15 AM
Dear Friends, do you have a favourite love poem? Maybe you have two or three! Please share! Thanks Mieke, Lily, Stan, Char, Kate, Bonnie, North, C, Keith, Irvine, Shehla and Koral. Your choices are outstanding! Well done!
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Don’t call me today
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on January 21, 2008 at 04:16 AM
Don’t call me today, for I am inside eyes so loving.
Eyes that are going away.
The glances given by those windows of light,
illumined many smiles in my face
Adoringly they watched me move in delight
making me the sole object of his affection.
There was never a complaint or disdain
loyalty was never in question.
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A single embrace of Mother
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on January 12, 2008 at 02:04 PM
Today words sting like angry wasps.
Concepts spoken, written, about everything.
This endless chit chat of mind asserting.
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Relativity
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on January 12, 2008 at 06:50 AM
There is no pain like inner pain
when everything bounces hard
on the hermetic and impenetrable bubble
that encapsulates you.
When you enter the mood of brood
and remembrance.
When you are overwhelmed
and don’t know what to do.
This Joy of Pure Being
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on January 07, 2008 at 02:06 AM
Beyond the high speeds of those imaginary particles we describe
and much further than the field of infinite potentiality of the new verse,
there lies a most shy, omnipotent, innocent and inexplicable joy.
Let’s make believe, like little girls playing at serving invisible tea
that we are hearing this music unheard, and dance, just dance
Bring along the so-called sins and other deviations that spice up the rhythm
yes why not, also the sac of virtues and credits you can spare.
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The Golden Rule & Wisdom based Global Economy
posted by DK Matai on January 04, 2008 at 03:07 PM
Dear Friends, early in the New Year -- in the context of The Philanthropia -- the subject of unbiased and balanced judgement came up. How could one harness creativity, invention, empowerment, innovation and excellence in the 21st Century whilst dealing with its flip side, ie, exorbitant financial reward, unmitigated power, potential-for-damage and runaway chain-reactions with unintended consequences.
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A New Year Yearning
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on December 31, 2007 at 06:31 PM
These marvelous interactions,
of textures, aromas, flavors, sights and rhythms,
they spill over in symphonies infinite
over our minds and feelings.
All the seconds, minutes, and days of our lives,
their reflections are reflected in mirrors. .
Everything is inundated with a sea of energy waves
converging, resonating, distorting.
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The Power of One!
posted by DK Matai on December 28, 2007 at 09:34 AM
Dear Friends, One core belief we embrace is The Power of One. We focus on the One, knowingly or unknowingly, having all been created from One source. This philosophy encompasses simple concepts and is visible in each and every day of our life whether at work, home or play...
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Just a Morning Wish
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on December 25, 2007 at 08:16 AM
This ineffable feeling of inexplicable joy
seeps in through inner doors so secret.
It opens hidden alcoves on occasion, unwarranted.
No special mantras can take you there, or efforts in prayer,
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Plato and auntie Amelia
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on December 20, 2007 at 06:17 PM
Caught up between Plato and my aunt Amelia,
trying to understand this cold weather of blood.
Balancing the act between dancing daisies, smiles and hips,
and sharp knives of logic and blade, that cut through all expectations.
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The not yet day
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on December 18, 2007 at 06:56 PM
This day cannot be.
It has not happened yet
No headlines or buzz for hype
No plans or theories to describe.
It has not been imagined.
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8 Years of Video
posted by Saira Mohan on December 18, 2007 at 01:44 PM
Jonathan Keller has taken a photo of himself everyday for the past 8 years. The result is a video of a man in his 20s turning into a man in his 30s...
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The Original Sin
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on December 09, 2007 at 08:35 PM
Fear of intermittency naturally caught up with mind. It is an everyday thing. I looked out, introspected, and interacted. That vacuum of contrasting content was spilled all over. It felt like a real mess. I decided to pick-up everything, to reorder each object neatly, in harmony.
Of course it was too broad and complex a task for limitation, so I summoned imagination, and with her on board, time became perpetual.
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As Above So What?!
posted by Renee Reeser Zelnick on December 08, 2007 at 06:59 PM
Did you feel ambivalent about the hard-sell, materially-driven style of “The Secret”? If so, check out the new book by my friend Maja D’Aoust (Co-edited with Adam Parfrey), The Secret Source: The Law of Attraction is One of Seven Hermetic Laws: Here Are the Other Six
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Sometimes
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on December 08, 2007 at 03:28 PM
Sometimes I weigh a planet or two and cannot measure the circumference of my self as it extends beyond boundaries never understood.
Sometimes I feel fragrances of coffee and roses in the palms of my hands, in a strange mélange of romances and morning papers, and I imagine myself in a Vienna cafe my coat wet from the snow, my head filled with some new waltz dawning.
Molecular Waltz
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on December 02, 2007 at 08:00 AM
Molecules waltz in pairs so animatedly that they make their own music. It reverberates everywhere, particularly in the listening. These recombinations are so fascinating and artistic, each one of them, generating, procreating, and irradiating energies and beauty. The dance of molecules is just magnificent.
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Diary
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on November 25, 2007 at 03:37 PM
A long longing it has been,
betrayed only by my own partying.
Unavoidable it was,
since growing
does takes place in time.
Intelectual property
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on November 20, 2007 at 09:29 PM
Surrounded by awe
dreaming landscapes of reality.
Walking by, as a child,
in amazement at the exuberance.
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Fallopian tubes
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on November 18, 2007 at 07:49 AM
Take a break, as you flutter eyes and wings
so you can see and soar.
Multitudes surround you with animosities,
intent, demands, praise and complaints.
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The deep breath of Brahma
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on November 04, 2007 at 05:03 AM
Therein, lies the lie.
Thus, it is not false or true,
just this particular way words ooze
out of minds in bursts, as they fly.
Crossing spaces imagined in time.
Becoming pulses that bloom in fingertips,
play themselves like music onto screens of magic
searching for some sense, trying to capture rhyme.
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Creation, everyday
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on October 30, 2007 at 06:31 AM
Help me to the concrete,
for I can’t bear the divine
Inundate with theory this mind,
fill it with new and the obsolete.
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Bombay Traffic Policeman
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on October 23, 2007 at 07:23 PM
I fell, like a giant in an anthill.
The whole body of a Bombay traffic policeman,
flat on the street.
There was sound of laughter, at the falling thunder,
and blaring horns, catcalls, and whistles,
as well as the ruminant sounds of the Bombay
I remembered an era ago.
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What is your equation?
posted by Saira Mohan on October 21, 2007 at 06:44 AM
Here's mine....
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Shake The Planet: Inspiring The Next Generation
posted by DK Matai on October 16, 2007 at 01:25 PM
Dear Friends, let me introduce Vicki Lynn, a producer of integrated media events and president of a multi media production company, Satellite Events...
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You Alone Exist
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on October 14, 2007 at 05:11 PM
Now, after the presence, what is left of the ordinary walking about?
Everything is flooded with yearning, and this nostalgia clutches my breath.
There is no longer any fun in breathing, or anything else.
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Nobel Prize for Peace: Many congratulations Al Gore
posted by DK Matai on October 12, 2007 at 10:36 AM
We wish to share the personal message we have sent to Al Gore. You may enjoy reading the presentation Mr Gore gave at the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) in London with a response to one of the questions I asked post the keynote.
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Nakedness
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on September 29, 2007 at 07:47 PM
Nakedness reveals nooks and corners where stars nest.
Hearts then must be careful with the winds of words,
otherwise they will be like sharp swords,
wounding inadvertently the soul exposed,
creating terrible pains.
The smile of the Beloved
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on September 25, 2007 at 02:39 AM
It shines like the original spark of whim
that ignited the fires of universe.
It is hidden in mischievous eyes,
as father and mother of creativity.
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Existentialism
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on September 21, 2007 at 06:03 PM
Inwardly cascading they spill
subtleties of indefatigable moments.
Serene like dew on flower petals,
they glide in the surfaces, of the palpable
and collapse inevitably in the nooks and corners
of the inexistent spaces.
All multicolored bubbles thin as they spin
with Earth’s turns.
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A wish for one and all
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on September 08, 2007 at 08:29 AM
I wish that music fills up all of your life spaces and that the most subtle angels, take your hands and walk you over through the enchanted cosmic forests of existence. That the Ocean spills in your eyes and replenishes all of your moments with depth and tenderness, that starlight melts in sidereal rain and floods every secret orbital of your body and its impossible nexus with your soul, to provoke an eternal smile in your flowering lip gardens.
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A Falling Songbird
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on September 02, 2007 at 09:33 PM
Today a song bird fell in my heart.
Stubbornly wounded, he sang and sang
I played deaf as always, so busy…
with this and that thing of mind
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Chit Happens!
posted by Renee Reeser Zelnick on August 30, 2007 at 12:35 AM
Art or Arson?
The Man, symbol and center of the Burning Man Festival in the Nevada desert was burned by another man. Performance artist Paul Addis, 35, of San Francisco was arrested by local authorities in connection with the blaze of 40-foot structure, which is traditionally burned down on the final Saturday night of the weeklong event of Radical Self-Expression.
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Purpose
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on August 25, 2007 at 10:55 PM
“Purpose presumes a direction and since Existence, being everything and everywhere, cannot have any direction; directions must always be in nothing and lead nowhere. Hence to have a purpose is to create a false goal. Love alone is devoid of all purpose and a spark of Divine Love sets fire to all purposes. The Goal of Life in Creation is to arrive at purposelessness, which is the state of Reality” Meher Baba
A gulp of space
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on August 22, 2007 at 10:10 PM
Caresses melt into skin and are absorbed by inner invisible fluids, that carry them to dimensions not yet measured by the different scopes we have invented in our fear.
Old hands of mother. I remember them, subtle, fragile, healing my unknown ailments so knowingly. They melted in my skin, those wrinkled hands.
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Guptara Twins: Conspiracy of Calaspia - Success!
posted by DK Matai on August 18, 2007 at 03:10 PM
Dear Friends, It is just over nine months since we wrote about the Guptara Twins and their fantasy novel, Conspiracy of Calaspia.
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Intimacy of moons
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on August 14, 2007 at 07:55 PM
Light-hurt, eyes bewildered,
an eerie awe percolating, like coffee
in the morning.
Atoms have split open
like bubbles of nothing.
Their entrails emanate energy,
vibrancy.
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All of a sudden
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on August 12, 2007 at 10:58 AM
The Beloved walked in, unplanned.
His grace of garb, his surrounding fragrance of light and rose,
that innocence supreme of power uncontained.
Each step a moving note of rhythm, a Sunday of love, a whisper seductive.
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HQR*: Remembering Amir Khusrau (1253-1325 AD)
posted by DK Matai on August 10, 2007 at 09:48 PM
Hazrat Amir Khusrau wrote in Persian:
Man tu shudam, tu man shudi
man tan shudam, tu jaan shudi;
Taa kas nagoyad baad azeen
man deegaram, tu deegari!
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Behind it all
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on August 05, 2007 at 05:59 PM
There are secrets so secret, they have no contents contained.
Intimacy so deep it never surfaces.
We are wading floods within, far from everything,
and smiles and proprieties don’t reach these places.
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Eyes within eyes
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on August 04, 2007 at 03:35 PM
Today sadness floods water
and fields weep green
Mistiness collapses like mountains
within my journeying soul
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Delicate Boundaries
posted by Saira Mohan on August 02, 2007 at 06:38 AM
What'll they think up next...?
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The Himalayan Feast
posted by Vikas Khanna on August 01, 2007 at 12:10 AM
In 1993 I was working at the Soaltee Oberoi, Kathmandu, Nepal at Food and Beverage Production. An amazing experience to be living right under the most astonishing of God's creations - The Himalayas.
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Intimately remote
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on July 31, 2007 at 05:21 AM
Walking without destination, yet forward.
Inside whirlwinds of decay.
Everything passes, day by day
First-born words, cascade on my lips
and die just as pronounced,
like drunken dreams
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Sufi Prayer by Dara Shikoh: What shall I do?
posted by DK Matai on July 30, 2007 at 03:38 PM
Dear Friends, we would like to share a Sufi prayer with you, which is often attributed to Dara Shikoh (1615–1659), who was the eldest son of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan and his wife Mumtaz Mahal, in whose memory the Taj Mahal stands.
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Wahan Kaun Hai Tera? or Who is yours over there?
posted by DK Matai on July 16, 2007 at 07:47 PM
This is one of our favourite songs sung by the late S D Burman in the movie "Guide", which is based on the novel by R K Narayan and made by the uncles of Shekhar Kapur -- Vijay and Dev Anand.
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Spilled latte
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on July 16, 2007 at 06:06 AM
Collectively aggregated intentions of budding,
coalescing in light forms, these constellations.
Inventing every millisecond, recombinations,
spatial changes, to form an energy producing kiss.
Molecules so intimate they blush as they twist.
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An Experience (Last Part)
posted by Saira Mohan on July 11, 2007 at 01:20 AM
Samburu Warriors, as it turns out, are rather ritualistic people. In fact, they have one of the world’s most commanding social systems altogether. While certainly not the most prolific, it is powerful in that it is so pervasive throughout their culture. To say their beliefs are ‘strictly adhered to’ would be an understatement to say the least.
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The Man in Black
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on July 08, 2007 at 02:52 PM
Ghost images are fluffy in my mind’s space.
The infinite dark scenario behind my eyes
is overpopulated with faces, smiling and passing by.
They gather in torrents like down pouring rain
speaking greetings in all sorts of forms, asserting presence.
Requesting attention as we co-create our world.
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An Experience (Part III)
posted by Saira Mohan on July 08, 2007 at 01:39 AM
The day had now, most certainly, turned into dusk. We were walking for some bit of time. Off into the distance, I could see something that looked like a man made hut. Perhaps we were heading in that direction. Now, with my red warrior still leading the paces by quite a few steps, I was left sufficiently enough alone to completely take in the world around me with an unexpected degree of peace.
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Remembering 7/7 London & 11/7 Mumbai: The Far Pavilions of shared Imperial Past & Dynamic Present
posted by ATCA on July 08, 2007 at 12:39 AM
We are grateful to Michael E Ward, a British subject, for his submission to ATCA from Mumbai, India, "Remembering 7th July 05, London, and 11th July 06, Mumbai -- The Far Pavilions of a shared Imperial Past & Dynamic Present."
Candida Höfer: An Indelible Impression
posted by DK Matai on July 06, 2007 at 05:02 AM
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An Experience (Part II)
posted by Saira Mohan on July 03, 2007 at 12:56 AM
To say that I was merely ‘surrounded by vegetation' would have been an understatement: it was everywhere. And, at times, the dense tumbleweed-like bushes and shrubs were so great that it blocked certain views that one would normally have in their periphery. This left me feeling unsure about what was just around the bending wilderness...
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The Luminous Numinous
posted by Renee Reeser Zelnick on July 02, 2007 at 11:08 PM
To paraphrase the great Rudolf Otto, the Numinous can be described as a distinctive experience of God, ineffable and transcendent, the primary source of beauty and love. Feelings of awe, fascination and elements of overpowering-ness, urgency, and that which is "Wholly Other" are present in the numinous experience.
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What is Success?
posted by Deepak Chopra on June 25, 2007 at 10:53 AM
My definition of success is: 1.) The progressive realization of worthy goals 2.) The ability to love and have compassion 3.) To be in touch with the creative source within.
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The old man and the rum
posted by Rahul Pandita on June 23, 2007 at 09:53 AM
Many years ago, an old man took the above path, one moonless night, in Lansdowne. He was going home, after visiting a friend’s place. It was quite late in the night, and the man had had a bit too much to drink.
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TEN THOUSAND EYES
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on June 23, 2007 at 05:51 AM
Ten thousand eyes became my own anew
As I unfurled my arms, in an embrace to see
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Sometimes it Hurts, My Beloved
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on June 15, 2007 at 04:07 PM
Endearment is so long now
that it crosses every boundary without papers,
lingers on porches and gardens of yesterday,
soars into space like an aimless moon bird.
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Awake in paradox
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on June 09, 2007 at 05:53 AM
Voices in my dreams urged in contradiction
“remember the Beloved to forget everything,
forget everything so that you might remember him”
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Just Mellow Moments
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on June 07, 2007 at 05:52 AM
Consciousness meanders softly everywhere,
like an overflowing river.
Absorbing every drop of light and dark,
in outsides and insides woven, as life.
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Images
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on June 03, 2007 at 05:16 AM
Images all around, they surround.
Every possibility of space and time.
coalesces kaleidoscopically in shapely mirages,
projected by a magic insubstantial essence.
The Walrus and The Carpenter: Probable Answer(s)
posted by DK Matai on May 28, 2007 at 02:00 AM
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The Walrus and The Carpenter: What does it mean?
posted by DK Matai on May 27, 2007 at 07:12 AM
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IF...Yours is the Earth and Everything that's in It!
posted by DK Matai on May 24, 2007 at 02:48 PM
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Zenith; a conversation with the Beloved
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on May 12, 2007 at 07:43 AM
I hurriedly walked alongside, trying to match his graceful gait flowing through garden spaces like enamored comets in nights of Brahma. It was so sunny and bright and I was so happy, because with the Beloved again in the garden I need not think much about the flowers, they were all blooming for him.
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Henry David Thoreau: Conscience
posted by DK Matai on May 07, 2007 at 04:00 AM
Conscience is instinct bred in the house,
Feeling and Thinking propagate the sin
By an unnatural breeding in and in...
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The Beloved
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on May 06, 2007 at 06:22 AM
So many books have fallen on my hands. Many I have read, trying to understand sequences of words so elegantly written. I have admired the passionate insistence to try to decipher the hidden wonders of being.
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Shakespeare's Sonnet CXLVI -- 146
posted by DK Matai on April 24, 2007 at 03:44 AM
Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth,
[...] these rebel powers that thee array;
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Materialism to the Pipes o' Panpsychism: What is your TRUTH?
posted by Renee Reeser Zelnick on April 15, 2007 at 05:45 PM
A few years ago, I was wonderfully lost, wandering around the streets of Paris. Trying to get my bearings in a beautifully historic neighborhood, I’d stopped by chance, in front of a row of lovely old homes. Turning around, I noticed a small plaque on one wall, claiming the house was a former home of famed French philosopher Rene Descartes.
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Threads of Light
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on April 15, 2007 at 06:21 AM
This ocean-wet music
paints green rolling hills inside,
I see them upon walking the path
towards any destination.
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Nights are tough
posted by Rahul Pandita on April 13, 2007 at 09:36 PM
Eleven years have passed in this city. Next to where you are breaking your promise of serving breakfast only to me, I remember buying a book from my first salary: Safdar Hashmi - The fifth flame. Life had just begun to explore new theatres of existence.
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Interruption for Joy
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on April 07, 2007 at 06:12 AM
Every word has become a sword
Everything is so wound up
Like cords left to their own
In a forgotten chest of drawers
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This awareness of new
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on April 05, 2007 at 09:41 AM
Somehow, you all have made a deep impression on me.
In this brief passing by ,
I have befriended you and remember you
unbeknownst, from every remote location.
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Going Potty
posted by Suchitra Krishnamoorthi on April 01, 2007 at 10:03 PM
I’ve never been much into religious mythology-frankly have never understood it or even tried to . As kids everytime my father(his ancestors were temple priests ) handed us copies of religious texts we ran away in horror. He even tried the comics-but I traded the Amar Chitra Katha’s for Caspar,(the baby with the cute cute bald head and cuddly bottom) Archie (I was Betty-not Veronica) and Phantom (the man with the mask was so intriguing!)
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Apparently the World Cup is on
posted by Gotham Chopra on March 26, 2007 at 08:40 PM
And I, a self-proclaimed Sports nut, don't know squat about what's going on with arguably the world's second most popular sport (I'm placing futbol #1).
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Universe: Revealing Our Modern Mythology
posted by Saira Mohan on March 22, 2007 at 06:44 AM
I wanted to share this with you...
Universe
Faith...
posted by Suchitra Krishnamoorthi on March 17, 2007 at 04:56 AM
faith-a-faith-a-faith
you gotta have faith-a-faith-a-faith
HQR: Linking Ancient & Modern: WWW of Worship
posted by DK Matai on March 16, 2007 at 02:15 AM
Our friends Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan, the London Bureau Chiefs of The Washington Post, have been researching the global rise and participation of multiple-faiths, far flung religious communities, and advancement of collective spiritual thought enabled by 21st century communications technology...
T K Jayaraaman, Sri Rangam temple and The Internet
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Random Suff
posted by Gotham Chopra on March 15, 2007 at 08:59 PM
I've been away too long! Been struggling with what to blog since I am so out of the loop. Here's what's top of mind:
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The Art of Healing
posted by Renee Reeser Zelnick on March 11, 2007 at 03:39 PM
I have a friend who convinced she is not creative. She’s always telling me what a great artist I am, and that she’s my biggest fan. What she fails to realize is, that I am her biggest fan. She too is an artist. Her Medium? Healing.
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Pursuit of happyness
posted by Rahul Pandita on March 11, 2007 at 09:51 AM
What do I tell you? And how? Let me try...
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Holistic Quantum Relativity Project: Glossary v0.2
posted by DK Matai on March 02, 2007 at 02:38 PM
Dear Friends, thanks to your outstanding input, we have concluded the preliminary stage of the HQR project! Well done! Now, the next step is the common definition of key terms and phrases in Glossary v0.2. Feel free to suggest new terms, definitions & refinements; we seek more HQR Scientific terms.
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HQR: Tagore Einstein: Science, Spirituality & Music
posted by DK Matai on February 17, 2007 at 01:43 PM
In the context of Holistic Quantum Relativity's Socratic Dialogue it is useful to note that the Nobel Laureates Prof Albert Einstein (1921) and Sir Rabindranath Tagore (1913) met at Einstein's residence in Berlin, Germany, on 14th July 1930, as photographed. The recorded conversation elegantly demonstrates how the two utilised the language of music, as a metaphor, to forge common ground between science & spirituality.
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14th Feb: Valentine's Day Sonnet to Love
posted by DK Matai on February 13, 2007 at 10:03 AM
Dear friends, Happy Valentine's Day on the 14th wherever you are! For years we dreaded this day and then we thought...
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OLD ISSUES IN NEW CLOTHES
posted by Sohaila Kapur on February 10, 2007 at 07:07 AM
Hello everybody. Am back after a long hiatus. I see that some of the old issues are still hot ones, if anything, hotter. My blog on science and spirituality; that they were two sides of the same coin which got me a huge response ( mostly hate mail) is back on board i see, but wearing a more scientific mantle. Just proves that quintessential questions about the nature of the universe, about the connectivity between science and spirituality will always be a popular topic. Hope to be a regular participant from now.
London - 5th-9th feb @ 8, South Audley Street
posted by Suchitra Krishnamoorthi on February 05, 2007 at 02:15 AM
"Oh Lord, thou art Unborn, Absolute and Formless: Thou art beyond bliss and againBliss itself-the one and the infinite. . Thou art the supreme, without attributes, differentiation and desire. Thou art verily the Supreme Brahman. To thee, Oh Lord do we offer worship"
Ganesh Mantra
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Holistic Relativity: Spiritual Planes & Consciousness
posted by DK Matai on February 01, 2007 at 10:49 AM
In the quest to unify the four forces with the fifth, the Socratic Dialogue on 21st Century Holistics is moving towards Holistic Relativity, which hinges on multiple spiritual planes and consciousness levels. The Great Spiritual Masters refer to multiple planes often:
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Untitled (Does everything need a title?)
posted by mindyourmind.ca on January 24, 2007 at 10:39 AM
submitted by Diana, a member of the mindyourmind.ca crew
Smothered under cakes
Of powdered flowers
Painted sceneries of hypocrisy
Dance in barbed wire cages
Invisible to all within
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John Milton -- On Time... and Triumphing over Death
posted by DK Matai on January 20, 2007 at 09:42 AM
Dear friends, one of the greatest English poets, John Milton was born on 9th December, 1608, in London. He held his office with Oliver Cromwell until the restoration, which led King Charles II to arrest and to execute all of those in collaboration with Cromwell.
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Light Water Time
posted by Saira Mohan on January 17, 2007 at 05:14 AM
For those who would like to be introduced to the world's most gifted photographer, have a browse through the portfolio of David Doubilet
Maulana Rumi: 2007 is his 800th Anniversary!
posted by DK Matai on January 16, 2007 at 12:29 PM
Our friend Sussan Deyhim has reminded us that 2007 is the mystic poet Maulana Rumi's 800th Anniversary. So the post has been revised... The Great Spiritual Masters have often made references to the love of the Perfect Master Maulana Rumi -- Maulana of the Roman Empire -- who was born in Balakh, Afghanistan, in 1207 AD.
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Obsessed
posted by Gotham Chopra on January 15, 2007 at 07:45 PM
Truth be told, I'm much more of a sports guy than celebrity guy. For example, I would have moved heaven and Earth yesterday to watch a football playoff game but I could care less about adjusting around the broadcast of the Golden Globe awards show just down the street from where I live.
Just Being There at a New Dawn
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on January 01, 2007 at 08:42 AM
Eyes open again
stealthily seeping in horizons,
sketching silhouettes of mountains
once seen captured in gouaches.
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Where is Swadesh Deepak?
posted by Rahul Pandita on December 28, 2006 at 11:06 PM
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As though we buried the sun
posted by Rahul Pandita on December 27, 2006 at 06:12 AM
Between the pages and Should I take you to Shaheen
Sir Isaiah Berlin: The Hedgehog and The Fox
posted by DK Matai on December 24, 2006 at 01:07 AM
Sir Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) is often regarded as one of the greatest intellectual conversationalists of the 20th century. He was a philosopher and historian of ideas. In 1953, he published a seminal essay called The Hedgehog and The Fox. He argued for a greater understanding of the essential values of progressive civilisation -- pluralism and liberty. He was afraid of, and intellectually opposed to, absolutisms of any kind and their attendant regressions. Enjoy the read!
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Metamorphosis: Don picked for Berlin Film Festival
posted by DK Matai on December 20, 2006 at 12:08 PM
Is the Bollywood film industry metamophing into a worldclass player? Megastar Shah Rukh Khan may be celebrating after his latest movie "Don" was selected to be screened at the world famous Berlin Film Festival in Europe. How deserved is the honour?
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A Misty Morning
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on December 19, 2006 at 04:59 AM
Amazed, truly amazed at the simultaneous complexity and simplicity of it all. Emerging now of sleep unconsciousness, recovering my identity, my place in time and space, in my web of relationships, at these cross-currents of thoughts, memories, and desires, that whoosh through the labyrinths of mind.
All the conversations, the expectations, the duties, the tendencies, the yearnings gather to laugh in a merry choir of “me” as I look “outside” from this “inside”, and see the substance that nourishes and envelops everything, ever so loyal, ever so subtle.
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Endlessly Connected
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on December 17, 2006 at 09:55 AM
Absolutely together, as infinitesimal particles, we hurled out of the stillness of Being, in search of the paradise of self-consciousness. Bouncing on the boundaries of nothing we expanded space with our cosmic dance as we held hands most intimately in our quantumness. A hunting party we were, amongst numberless others, sent out by Being to explore and arrive at the knowledge of Oneness.
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T S Eliot: The Waste Land
posted by DK Matai on December 07, 2006 at 07:36 AM
Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) received the Nobel Prize in literature in 1948. The Waste Land (1922), is essentially melancholic, and its seeks to express "The Waste Land" of our lives, from which the search for a higher world arises.
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Fireworks of Silence
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on November 29, 2006 at 04:06 PM
I miss the fireworks exploding in computer screen heavens, carrying messages of light and inspiration, with incandescent flight they burn in the atmosphere of my mind. They swirl within, finding the bloodstream that opens in anticipated blooms of premature spring, and sting as poison arrows my heart.
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Thanksgiving Hymn, Emerson Prayer & Sunshine!
posted by DK Matai on November 23, 2006 at 12:55 PM
Our "Sunshine" in Toronto responds: I am sharing with you my favourite hymn of Thanksgiving; a short, beautiful poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson, which also serves as a prayer of Thanksgiving; and finally ... the words to “our song” so we can sing together soon... with love, mit liebe, avec amour, con amore, con amor, pyar sahit...
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Frost, Thanksgiving and I've Promises to Keep...
posted by DK Matai on November 22, 2006 at 03:31 PM
Happy Thanksgiving! We would like to dedicate Robert Frost's poem: to our "Sunshine" who lives in Toronto, Canada, and she was due to fly to Los Angeles, California, but couldn't at the last minute; and to all those who are trying to get to their Thanksgiving meals with loved ones but can't because of circumstances beyond their control... We are thinking of you with love! ...The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep...
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Maaya-The Illusion
posted by Suchitra Krishnamoorthi on November 15, 2006 at 06:07 PM
She lives here now, it's a beautiful place
At the foot of God's altar.
Its silver, its blue, its multihued
and there's no one here to bother her
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Blake: The Lamb & The Tyger (Love & Time)
posted by DK Matai on November 15, 2006 at 11:35 AM
Blake identified God's (Pure Love's) creative process with the work of an artist. And it is art that brings creation to its fulfillment -- by showing the world as it is, by sharpening perception, by giving form to ideas...
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Guptaras: Insanity Saga -- Conspiracy of Calaspia
posted by DK Matai on November 13, 2006 at 10:25 AM
In a recent visit to the Napoleonic Castle of Wolfsberg in Switzerland, we had the pleasure of being introduced, by our friends Prof Prabhu Guptara and his wife Philippa, to their 17-year old twins, Suresh and Jyoti. We were fascinated to discover that the boys have been working together, from the age of 11, on a series of seven novels, collectively called The Insanity Saga.
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Armistice Day: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
posted by DK Matai on November 11, 2006 at 11:11 AM
Today is the anniversary of the end of the first world war, Armistice Day, 11th November at 11:00am. We would like to present, Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est", the best known poem of the First World War, which rather accurately describes the horror of war, and the pity of war.
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Interruption for Joy
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on November 02, 2006 at 12:13 PM
Every word has become a sword
everything is so wound up
like cords left to their own
In a forgotten chest of drawers.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley: Love's Philosophy
posted by DK Matai on October 30, 2006 at 11:38 AM
The fountains mingle with the river,
And the rivers with the ocean;
The winds of heaven mix forever,
With a sweet emotion;
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Victor Hugo: More Strong than Time
posted by DK Matai on October 23, 2006 at 01:37 PM
Since I have set my lips to your full cup, my sweet,
Since I my pallid face between your hands have laid,
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Your Universal Womb
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on October 22, 2006 at 11:27 AM
Today my rose petals defoliated and fell in a flood of dew
Blushing in nakedness, they silently collapsed to the ground
-still not having found what I seek
-still not seeking to realize what I need
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Henry Longfellow: A Psalm of Life
posted by DK Matai on October 21, 2006 at 11:45 AM
'Life that shall send A challenge to its end,
And when it comes, say, 'Welcome, friend.''
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Alchemy
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on October 21, 2006 at 07:07 AM
Do not remain at ease, on moments of seeming repose, enjoy, but be prepared, these are intermediate landings in spiral stairs that take you to the heights. Churning is the engine that mixes all together and effaces any acquired pose one might have dreamt of. Any assumed belief held so strongly, that one identifies as being it.
Tagore: Geetanjali or "Song Offerings"
posted by DK Matai on October 20, 2006 at 12:40 PM
Mind Without Fear
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;