Jul 07
Domain names are names that are used to identify web sites, the best known varieties ending in .com, .net, and .org. Some examples of well-known domain names include google.com, yahoo.com, hotmail.com, msn.com, and slashdot.org. With a couple of caveats, people can register almost any domain name that they like (although their are certain rules about what characters in names are allowed, etc.) for just a few dollars per year. The most important caveat is that only one person can have a particular domain name registered at a particular time, and for the most part, it is first come first served.
May 10
In a long history of Indian modern art we still could not found the way or the vision which could lead us beyond reproduction and representation. Today modern art is completely business oriented. Artists are just business people, petty in thinking; rarely there is any artist who really understands modernity’s consciousness. Nowadays creativity is synonymous to good looking art, beautiful, decorative and crafty. A new group of capitalists have appeared on the horizon of Indian modern art to promote art and multiply the capital. Women from business families have come out from their closed
houses.
May 10
Socrates (ca. 470-399 BC) is not just another “dead white male” despised by our university elite but a man whose philosophical breakthroughs reverberate down through the centuries and profoundly affect us today. Athens in the fifth century BC was the age of Pericles. The grandiose construction projects undertaken by Pericles such as the Parthenon were being built during Socrates’ lifetime.
Philosophically, Athens was in a time of confusion, flux and disarray. The pre-socratic philosophers, namely the sophists such as Protagorus, Gorgias and Thrasymachus were teaching moral relativism in their philosophical schools. The term “sophist” means “wise man” and these wise men implicitly regarded their own personal wisdom as the foundation of understanding right behavior.
Apr 19
Why is Ganesha always the first God invoked in all religious ceremonies?
Vakratunda Mahakaya Surya Koti Samaprabha
Nirvighnam Kurumeydeva Sarva Karyeshu Sarvada
Vakratunda : Lord with Curved Trunk
Mahakaya: Large Bodied
Surya Koti: Million Suns
Samaprabha: With The Brilliance Of
Nirvighnam: Free Of Obstacles
Kuru: Make
Mey: My
Deva: O Lord
Sarva Karyeshu: All Work
Sarvada: Always
“O Lord Ganesha of Large Body,
Curved Trunk,
With the Brilliance of a Million Suns,
Make All My Work Free Of Obstacles,
Always.”
Apr 16
Anticipating death, Zhuangzi says,
” I shall have heaven and earth for my coffin and its shell,
the sun and moon as my two round symbols of jade,
the stars and constellations for my pearls and jewels,
and all other things assisting as my mourners “.
Yet Su Dong Po writes,
The silkworms have grown old
and the wheat is half yellow.
Around the mountain … the rain falls unrestrained.
And the farmers cannot work the land.
The women have thrown away their baskets.
But the immortals sit high … in white robes … in the hall.
On the Significance of Floods in Ancient China
Mar 29
Hinduism produced many philosophical work and texts, among which Gita is considered the most sacred and philosophical scripture. Not only by Hindus, but Gita is popular across religions all over the world.
In this article, I would try to present the true essence of Gita, some of its verses and their meaning.
Historical relevance and the story behind it:
Bhagavad-Gita is a part of Bhishma Parva of Hindu epic Mahabharata written by Krishnadwaipayan Byashdeb. Written in Sanskrit, the meaning of Srimad Bhagavad-Gita is the Song of God. There are some doubts about its date of composition. Some scholars give a broad range of possible dates, as in this analysis by R. C. Zaehner:
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Mar 23
Then one day I saw one rat, a single big one, struggling to walk on my patio and clearly dying. Something was wrong with the animal. He had difficulty standing on his legs, shivering, with strange formations around its mouth. Ahhh… my heart sank! POISON… So there it was, the INTENDED result of my Home Depot campaign to clean up my backyard from this infestation. It really didn’t feel right and I still find it hard to explain the feeling.
I felt a wave of nausea climbing up my spine while I couldn’t help but recall…
… those pictures of temples in India where they actually FEED the rats with milk everyday because a rat is a “consort” of the deity Ganesh, the elephant-headed son of Shiva and Parvati.
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Ethical Dilemmas In Daily Life - Rats In My Backyard, Part 2
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Mar 15
We rise upon the earth as wavelets rise upon the ocean. We grow out of her soil as leaves grow from a tree. The wavelets catch the sunbeams separately, the leaves stir when the branches do not move. They realize their own events apart, just as in our own consciousness, when anything becomes emphatic, the back ground fades from observation. Yet the even works back upon the back ground, as wavelet works upon the waves, or as the leaf’s movements work upon the sap inside the branch. The whole sea and the whole tree are registers of what has happened, and are different for the wave’s and the leaf’s action having occurred. (A Pluralistic Universe, p. 79)
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The Influence Of William James On Archetypal Psychology
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Mar 13
As human nature goes we often wonder what we are, who we are and what our place is in the Universe. It would be totally egocentric to think that we are alone in the universe and we are the center of it all. We would be no better than when they thought the world was flat and the Sun orbited the Earth. So where do we fit in? Better yet where do we exist?
Ponder this. (Caution this may cause your brain to hurt.) Imagine you are a scientist and you are studying molecular physics. You look at an element. You see a nucleus and x number of electrons flying around it. You smash it to see what comes out. You do this repeatedly. Each time you get your flash of light and traces of sub particles. Your friend is an astronomer. He sits watching the Universe through a telescope. He sees flashes of light from supernovas and galaxies collide.
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Ponder - Do We Live On A Planet Or Something Else?
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