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"Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present."

-- Bil Keane

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Being nice is a sign that your IQ is high, research reveals.

Highly intelligent people are better at cooperating and are more generous to others.

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"Reclaim your curiosity, your sense of adventure, and have some fun. Don't take every moment of your life so seriously. Allow yourself to enjoy life."

-- Akiroq Brost

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“We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.” ~Joseph Campbell

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Is Chögyal Namkhai Norbu correct when he says our life is unreal and that Buddha taught that life is just like a dream (Mahayana, Tibetan Buddhism, sunyata, dreams, Buddhism)?

Life is a dream because you live unconsciously with thousand and one things on your mind.

Your mind is always calculating, manipulating and planning. Mind is everywhere but not in present.

The very nature of the mind is to cling to the past and imagine about the future. You are hypnotised by one thing or other.

You see a beautiful girl, you start dreaming of making love to her, now you are hypnotised by her beauty. Is your dream real?

There is a popular Buddhist parable:-

The story goes that two monks were traveling together, a senior and a junior. They came to a river with a strong current where a young woman was waiting, unable to cross alone. She asks the monks if they would help her across the river. Without a word and in spite of the sacred vow he’d taken not to touch women, the older monk picks her up, crosses, and sets her down on the other side.

The younger monk joins them across the river and is aghast that the older monk has broken his vow but doesn’t say anything. An hour passes as they travel on. Then two hours. Then three. Finally, the now quite agitated younger monk can stand it no longer: “Why did you carry that women when we took a vow as monks not to touch women?”

The older monk replies, “I set her down hours ago by the side of the river. Why are you still carrying her?”

That is how we live our life unconsciously, utterly sleepy.

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What is the soul according to Vedanta?

There is no such things as “soul” which is possessed by a body.

What the Abrahamics call the “soul” we call the SELF (ātman, or jīvātman) it is characterised by sentience.

It is a point of perceptual awareness (POPA) which temporarily occupies a material body comprised of six elements: oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus.

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