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    Originally posted on Teachings Of Masters: Concentration and contemplation are great things; but no contemplation is greater than the life we have about us every day. Bowl of Saki, February 17, by Hazrat Inayat Khan Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan: As one goes further in the soul’s unfoldment one finally…

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    A natural philosopher† that should be studied & comprehended in order to see the large impact he has on everyday thought as well as on science, technology, engineering and mathematics. †The term “scientist” was not invented & used widely until nearly a century after Newton’s death. Related articles Rhizome |…

  • An Indistinct Sky: No-Thinking

    “In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.” Siddhartha Gautama, the Awakened Related articles Struggle Falling Away: Love (keithwaynebrown.com) Awake for Deathless Wisdom (keithwaynebrown.com) Intersecting Wisdom (keithwaynebrown.com) Changing minds, changing lives (ashconno.wordpress.com) Debt &…

  • Death of a Yuppie Dream – In These Times

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions See on www.inthesetimes.com

  • Struggle Falling Away: Love

    “Here it is–right now. Start thinking about it and you miss it.”  Huangbo, The Zen Teaching of Huang Po “Meditation is very simple. It means to surrender the mind, the body, and the world, from moment to moment, to the silent presence in which they appear. That’s all.” – Francis…

  • How Capitalism Creates The Welfare State « The Dish

    The two concepts are usually seen in complete opposition in our political discourse. The more capitalism and wealth, the familiar argument goes, the better able we are to do without a safety net for the poor, elderly, sick and young. And that’s true so far as it goes. What it…

  • Influential few predict behaviour of the many : Nature News & Comment

    Influential few predict behaviour of the many : Nature News & Comment

      Further tools for writing the book of life. To completely understand how a living organism works one would have to take it apart, the great physicist Niels Bohr once observed — but then the organism would certainly be dead1. In general, systems of high complexity, including living things but…

  • Teaching without Words: A Must See Ted Talk ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

    Teaching without Words: A Must See Ted Talk ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions “What did you think about when you first read Teaching without Words ? Probably a voice inside you shouted out-loud : No way, this can’t be possible! Well this is what mine did. I too was taken aback by the weirdness of this question because for me…

  • Asking Questions Beyond Thinking

    Many who #meditate are surprised by the #etymology of #Mantra. Deepen your practice by embracing #uncertainty. goo.gl/5NhNZ — Keith Wayne Brown (@pahndeepah) February 18, 2013 “All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.”  ― Jiddu Krishnamurti You…

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    Originally posted on fauxphilnews: Members of the Moral Philosophy Research Group hard at work A previously unrecognized moral principle was discovered last week after ethicists at the University of Mesa realized that they would rather kill an old lady’s cat than a young girl’s puppy. The principle of moral naivete, as it…

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    Tribute Exactly year ago I photographed this Mango Tree at Lake Valdevi,  now again i went to the same place to get the different mood of this alone Mango tree, but me or Mango tree, someone among us was unfortunate, as the tree was completely dead. This image is the…

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    Good advice. There are many kinds of phenomenology. Even Husserl’s own descriptive phenomenology can be broken up into psychological (intentional), constitutive (eidetic), transcendental and generative phenomenologies. And then there are the diverse varieties of existential and hermeneutic phenomenologies. If you are going to be doing research with phenomenology, you must…

  • Debt and the Indebted Person

    Debt and the Indebted Person

    What is it about “you must repay your debts” that allows even the best of people to justify the worst human actions? It is very much worth your time to at least listen to the 65 minute lecture below by anthropologist & author David Graeber. My buddy-friend-guy, Christopher P., has…

  • Clouds drifting colorful

    “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” ― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds Related articles Cloud Quotes (arlene1956.wordpress.com) Stories from Tagore, by Rabindranath Tagore (spr07.wordpress.com) Clouds And Waves By Rabindranath Tagore (renardmoreau.wordpress.com)  

  • Love is not a duty or trade

    “Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are…

  • Brad Evans and Henry Giroux Conversation (full)

    Brad Evans and Henry Giroux Conversation (full)

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Dr Brad Evans (Senior Lecturer in International Studies (Bristol) and Founder/Director of the Histories of Violence Project) and Dr Henry A. Giroux (Professo… See on www.youtube.com Related articles The Bad University Department (zeroanthropology.net) Dissent and Punishment in the Book of Life: Introduction to Henry…

  • Physicist’s Famous Principle Shown To Work In ‘Macro’ World Too

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions By: Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 02/14/2013 02:26 PM EST on LiveScience They knew it was true, but now they’ve shown it: Scientists have demonstrated that the uncertainty principle, one of the most famous rules of quantum physics,… See on www.huffingtonpost.com