Krishnamurti
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Photo Credit: National Geographic “When you teach a child that a bird is named bird, the child will never see the bird again” – Krishnamurti Free Your Mind.
Originally posted on Ivory Free Ohio-IFOH:
Photo Credit: National Geographic “When you teach a child that a bird is named bird, the child will never see the bird again” – Krishnamurti Free Your Mind.
The Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley My rating: 5 of 5 stars This book is a gem, a must read, for people with even the slightest interest in the esoteric dimension of religions, any religion. It is a lucid presentation of exalting and inspiring quotes from mystics and saints throughout history. I believe it is … More A Precious Book
One of the favorites,
My father had a lot of classical music on cassettes and my older brother had just learnt about the fun of recording over them. He would take me with him, maybe to reduce his charges against the progressive values of The Enlightenment. He would put in a cassette and push the red record bottom; we … More I am Beethoven
The one idea closest to truth, summarizing the Absolute-Relative polarity, is expressed both in The Bhagavad Gita and The Gospel of Thomas, and I am sure elsewhere, particularly in European Phenomenology. Gita 2:16 says “What is real cannot not be; what is unreal cannot be. This has been realized by the seers of truth.” In … More The Gospel of Thomas & The Gita
Dated September 26th, 2013 It has appeared to me that all things have undergone a reversal of meaning. Morality is not the only case of this reversal. Meanings of all things have been inverted. I am very much curious to know about the cause of this reversal of all meanings. Reality has precedence and is … More The Inverted World
Dated August 21st, 2013 The question rose, in spite of my instinctual optimism, whether humanity and its civilization was essentially masochistic and self-destructive! Aside from its limitless consumption of its own limited resources, which is just a soft touch compared to what follows, I find above all most destructive the pursuit of knowledge. The destructive … More Truth & Madness
The strangeness of the microscopic world, aka the quantum world, is best captured in a famous experiment known as The Double Slit Experiment. It is a simple experiment that shows how our intuitive ideas of matter and reality don’t hold anymore. This experiment shows the essence of quantum mechanics and why it is so strange … More A Visual Account of Quantum Strangeness
First it was thought that sun and other planets rotate around the Earth, which is a very natural conclusion when we look at the sky. Then, it turned out that it is the sun that is at the center while all planets, including the earth rotate around the sun. It was observed that in the … More True Motion of Solar System
Mathematics is a view to the logical structure of the world. The mathematical principles are a priori propositions whose truth-values are independent of empirical evidence, and hence the a priori. Mathematics involves two types of things: Sets and Relations. Sets are the collections of objects, the collection being defined provisionally. For instance, a mathematician may … More The Idea of Mathematics