One aspect of travel I greatly enjoy is the rush of colors and smells and sounds, the intense (and sometimes forced) awakening of what may have become complacent senses. The teaching of Buddhist Tantra is a realization that you are not an isolated chuck of matter, not part of a duality (you vs everything else), …
The buzz, my friends, is that with 1 gigabyte of storage, plus the ability to install and run personalized programs, I have in effect taken my entire computer workspace and stuck it on a half-ounce chip.
If you want to embrace more in this life than work-home-television, you need friends to accompany you
Early yogic and other Asian traditions gave great attention to inner space. It was the science of that day, and like the science of any other day, it was a human attempt to understand the nature of existence, employing the clearest and most powerful tools available. The closest subject, and the one which yielded the …
"Sri Aurobindo was born in Calcutta on 15 August 1872. At the age of seven he was taken to England for education and in 1890 went up to King's College, Cambridge. Here he stood in the first class in the Classical Tripos and also passed the final examination for the …
"The gross body which is composed of the seven humours (dhatus), I am not; the five cognitive sense organs, viz. the senses of hearing, touch, sight, taste, and smell, which apprehend their respective objects, viz. sound, touch, colour, taste, and odour, I am not; the five cognitive sense-organs, viz. the organs of speech, locomotion, grasping, …
Pondering the bits and pieces of technology that I am trying to band-aid together before our very real travel begins.
As he nears the quay his step quickens, and he smiles and shakes his head in wonder at where his feet are leading him.