p.11 To sense the universe at all scales, from the vast distances to the stars down to the unimaginably small distances within the atomic nucleus, requires that we expand our senses by the use of instruments. Telescopes enable us to look outwards and microscopes reveal what things are like at small distances. To look inside … Continue reading The Atoms from a long-dead Supernova are what make you and me today
Photo by Xaotherion p.2 An atom is the smallest piece of an element that can exist and still be recognized as that element. Nearly all of these elements, such as the oxygen that you breathe and the carbon in your skin, were made in stars about 5 billion years ago, at around the time … Continue reading December 27; Powerful magnetic forces in our body
MORNING READ We are made of atoms. With each breath you inhale a million billion billion atoms of oxygen, which gives some idea of how small each one is. All of them, together with the carbon atoms in your skin, and indeed everything else on Earth, were cooked in a star some 5 billion … Continue reading We are made of atoms
Card of the Day GENEROSITY I give generously to those around me, no matter how much (or how little) I have. I know there is more than enough to go around, and that the key is to allow it to keep going around without stopping. If I stop the flow, I'm like the one person … Continue reading November 5th, 2018
p.5 A man's as miserable as he thinks he is _ Seneca Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think _ Einstein p.13 What is more sinister, materialism correlates with serious psychological issues such as depression, narcissism and paranoia, a correlation exposed by researchers Kasser and ryan, … Continue reading Happiness Animal
To one of discrimination, everything is painful indeed, due to its consequences: the anxiety and fear over losing what is gained; the resulting impressions left in the mind to create renewed cravings; and the constant conflict among the tree gunas, which control the mind. Here, Patanjali gives a very important sutra and a great truth in the spiritual … Continue reading detachment
Egoism is the identification, as it were, of the power of the Seer (Purusa) with that of the instrument of seeing [body-mind]. In this sutra Patanjali explains egoism. The ego is the reflection of the true Self on the mind. The two appear to be the same, but one is the original, the other a reflected duplicate. … Continue reading I and i
33. Maitri karuna muditopeksanam sukha duhkha punyapunya visayanam bhavanatas citta prasadanam. By cultivating attitudes of friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous and disregard toward the wicked, the mind-stuff retains its undisturbed calmness. Whether you are interested in reaching samadhi or plan to ignore Yoga entirely, I would advise you to remember at … Continue reading FRIENDLINESS
These stuck with me from what I read and heard today: — Union with God is the real Yoga — Freedom comes from once you completely surrender yourself to God — The universe will conspire with you to create the right people and the right things and it all shows up I don't think it's … Continue reading Freedom Comes from Complete Surrender
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali p.3 The rest of the sutras only explain this one: If the restraint of the mental modifications is achieved, one has reached the goal of Yoga. p.4 Normally, the word Yoga is translated as "union," but for a union there should be two things to unite. In this case, what … Continue reading Monkey mind and Ahaṃkāra
Universe of Dahee 