Wednesday 31 July 2024
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Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands — and then eat just one of the pieces." ~ Judith Viorst
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CHILDHOOD AMNESIA
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Childhood amnesia, also called infantile amnesia, is the inability of adults to retrieve episodic memories (memories of situations or events) before the age of three to four years. It may also refer to the scarcity or fragmentation of memories recollected from early childhood, particularly occurring between the ages of 3 and 6. On average, this fragmented period wanes off at around 4.7 years.[1][2] Around 5–6 years of age in particular is thought to be when autobiographical memory seems to stabilize and be on par with adults.[3][4] The development of a cognitive self is also thought by some to have an effect on encoding and storing early memories.[5]
Some research has demonstrated that children can remember events from before the age of three, but that these memories may decline as children get older.[6][7][8] Psychologists differ in defining the onset of childhood amnesia. Some define it as the age from which a first memory can be retrieved. This is usually the third birthday, but it can range from three to four years in general.[9][10][11][12]
Changes in encoding, storage and retrieval of memories during early childhood are all important when considering childhood amnesia
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CED X WATCHING CED CLOUDS - WATER IS WELL MANAGED
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The idea that the real may be unknowable is very old. Consider the creation hymn in the Rig Veda, composed around 1500 to 1000 B.C., called the “Nasadiya Sukta.” This verse addresses fundamental questions of cosmology and the origin of the universe. In a beautiful translation by Juan Mascaró, it asks:
Who knows the truth? Who can tell whence and how arose this universe? The gods are later than its beginning: Who therefore knows whence comes this creation? Only he who sees in the highest heaven: He only knows whence came this universe and whether it was made or un-created. He only knows, or perhaps he knows not.
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Around 30-35,000 years ago there was an explosion of symbolism in Paleolithic human culture around the world, primarily represented by cave art. This cave art is usually located in hard to access underground spaces that must have had significant meaning for the artists and those who would have experienced these strange images by torchlight. And strange they are.
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Many academics would be horrified to learn what all near-death experiencers have learned. A successful life is not measured by fame, prestige, wealth, or number of publications; it is measured by how we treat one another, by our ability to live according to the golden rule, and by growth in our ability to feel compassion for others. But try mentioning this at any professional meeting and you will be laughed out of the conference room, and those with the most power and prestige will be laughing the hardest.
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I do not believe we can go back to an age of simple belief. Many of the explanations once given by religion, especially those about the material world, have been shown to be scientifically invalid. The general denial of any possible spiritual reality, however, and the active ignoring of evidence pointing toward the reality of some sort of spiritual aspect of humanity, is scientism, not science. CHARLES TART, PH.D., INSTITUTE OF TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGY
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Saturday 27 July 2024
Friday 26 July 2024
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COLIVIA - NEVER WON MEDAL IN OLYMPICS
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QNTM
The notion of collapse depends upon the idea that any quantum state can be written as a superposition (a weighted combination) of component states in Hilbert space. Those building-block states, corresponding to unambiguous values of particular physical features, are known as “eigenstates.” Depending on which physical property is under consideration, a quantum state can be expressed as a superposition of position eigenstates, momentum eigenstates, or eigenstates associated with other observables. The complete array of eigenstates associated with a particular property is called a “basis”: a position basis, momentum basis, or otherwise. The choice of basis is akin to constructing a wood cabin with either all horizontal beams or all vertical beams, but not both types at once. Similarly, once a quantum state is expressed in a position basis, it constitutes a weighted combination of only position eigenstates. Alternatively, if framed in a momentum basis, it is a different weighting of only momentum eigenstates.
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Thursday 25 July 2024
CREATIVITY
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"Creativity is the focused combination of unlikely things. Your mind locks onto a certain element and then searches widely for something unexpected that fits with it. What can scuba diving teach you about agriculture? What can trees teach you about public speaking? There is always some connective tissue between disciplines. If you wish to be more creative, look for the connections between two previously unconnected things."
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BREAKING BAD X BREAKING DAD X BREAKING BREAD
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Craving is dependent on a powerful and independent self of some form or other. Sometimes it seems that things can be controlled, and this supports the illusion of self, but in fact such control is only partial and temporary. The so-called self is merely one factor among countless other factors within the cause and effect stream. It is beyond any person's power to completely direct or control objects of clinging. The feeling of ownership or control over things may at times seem to be well-founded, but it can never be totally or completely real, with the result that clinging and the struggle to reaffirm the sense of self are intensified. Clinging to the self makes it difficult to organize things in conformity with the true cause and effect process. When action is not in accordance with cause and effect, and conditions do not behave in accordance with desires, the self is frustrated and confronted with impotency and loss. Clinging to self is the most fundamental kind of clinging, and is the foundation for all the other kinds. With the experience of pleasant feeling, craving follows. This leads to kiimupdiinu, clinging to desired sense objects. Dit.hup&ina, clinging to views, is present in the form of clinging to the idea that a particular object is good, that only by obtaining it will there be happiness, and that only the methods and teachings which encourage the search for and procurement of this object are correct. Silabbatupiidiina manifests as clinging to the methods and techniques which are considered necessary for the attainment of the
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Wednesday 24 July 2024
The environment determines only 10 percent of our happiness
The environment determines only 10 percent of our happiness Our environment is said to influence our happiness by a mere 10 percent. It’s true that our level of happiness improves dramatically if we can secure minimal standards of safety and procure food and a place to sleep. Happiness can be bought with money up to that point. But any improvements in environment after that have little impact on our happiness. Isn’t it strange to think that all those standard life goals—our job, income, home, marital status, whether or not we have kids—only play a 10 percent role in the happiness that we experience
gratitude
I feel true gratitude. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is. —attributed to ALBERT EINSTEIN
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SMT X SMD
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SSRS
SSRS SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR
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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.
Beyond an event is Knowledge.
Beyond an object is infinity.
Beyond a person is love.
Maya – delusion – is when you are stuck in events, personalities, or objects.
Brahman – divine consciousness – is seeing beyond all these. See? Just a little shift.
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Samasya to Tapasya. That is Bhakti
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JATI X JARAMARANA
Jati-Birth: Beginning with the re-linking consciousness, which is endowed with features contingent on its kammic momentum and connecting to a state appropriate to it, the five kha* arise in a new life continuum, comprisingname and form, the six sense bases, contact and feeling. When there is birth, what inevitably follows is . . . -+ Jar~marapa-Aging and death: the decay and dissolution of that life continuum. For the unenlightened being these things are constantly threatening life in either overt or covert ways
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Tuesday 23 July 2024
loneliness v solitude
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“Loneliness is of course not an asset in and of itself. It oen feels like a burden, but it also has potential. Everyone is lonely— some more than others—but no one escapes it,” writes the Norwegian philosopher Lars Fr. H. Svendsen in his book A Philosophy of Loneliness. Many religions and philosophical systems across the ages have emphasized that loneliness can be something positive, but today many people perceive it as something intrinsically negative. For me it’s all about how I respond to the situation of being alone, whether I’m able to harness loneliness in a good way or whether I just become restless or a little frantic. Oen I find that I’m restless for the first hours and days that I’m by myself, but usually—if I can stay the course and not allow myself to be tempted into seeking out company or distracting myself by thinking about the past or future—a sense of calm settles over me aer a time. Then I can start to enjoy being alone. That experience of loneliness is very close to what is sometimes termed “solitude
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probability v possibility
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“We have to differentiate between what is completely impossible and what is merely improbable,” writes the Norwegian philosopher and mountaineer Arne Næss. Nothing is completely impossible, he insists—just less and less probable. All eventualities while you are alive exist on a kind of “possibility meter” which goes from 0.1 to 99.9 per cent certainty.
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WORK LIKE HELL
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“The past is a whirlpool. If you let it dominate your present moment, it will suck you in. Time is just an illusion. What you need is to live this very moment. That is all that matters.”
― The Forty Rules of Love
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Monday 22 July 2024
DROOL CRITANNIA
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Entanglement. Quantum computing.
Sunday 21 July 2024
Great Clod
Saturday 20 July 2024
SMT X SMD
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The three tips of Shiva’s Trishula — the trident, symbolises the three states of Consciousness — jagrat (waking), Swapna (dream or sleep) and Sushupti (dreamless sleep). And as the deity who wields it, Shiva transcends these states.
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Thursday 18 July 2024
culturally constipated
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Foods cooked at high temperatures are rich in harmful free radicals and should be avoided. Ideally, cook food by boiling or steaming more often
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Course in Miracles: Staying Cool in the Heat of the Moment
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Illusion
Illusion means error of perception, and knowing illusion as illusion is Knowledge. Our experience of the world is based on perception that is erroneous, so our experience of the world is an illusion. And each experience leaves a hangover that clouds the intellect. The experiencer is the only reality. Look for the seer, the experiencer, in between experiences. Wake up this moment. Shake your head of all past experiences and look at the pure Being that I am and that you are. Question: How do you distinguish the experience and the experiencer? Sri Sri: Are you all really here? Are you listening? Now close your eyes and see who is listening, who is questioning, who is sitting, and who wants what? Who is confused? You may not get any answer but that is fine. Never mind.
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EAHG
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East-Asian Happiness Gap
The East-Asian countries/regions referred to here include Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and Singapore. To some extent, it probably also applies to Malaysia and Vietnam, but not much to the Philippines, Thailand, and Indonesia which have rather different cultures.
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RAT RACE FACTOR
COMPETITIVE ATTITUDE
Buddhism, Hinduism, and Taoism are more emphatic on the virtue of contentedness while Confucianism is, at least relative to the previous three, more emphatic on the virtue of achievement. While Buddhism and Taoism are still believed in parts of East Asia, their influence has largely waned, especially relative to the importance of Buddhism and Hinduism in India.
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similar report in 2000, Yuan Tzeh Lee (a Nobel laureate and President of Academia Sinica in Taipei) said, ‘Most Taiwan students are good in examinations. Their performance in science and mathematics are good at the stage of high school. However, after graduating from high schools, they become exhausted, as if going to retire … The educational system in Taiwan is very repressive of curious students interested in pursuing creativity. This is very bad.’ (My translation back from my Chinese translation of a report in China Times, 7 December 2000, p. 7.)
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Happiness researchers remark: ‘… in the Latin nations, such as Colombia, there is a tendency to view pleasant emotions as desirable… In contrast, in Confucian cultures, such as China, there tends to be relatively more acceptance of unpleasant emotions and relatively less acceptance of pleasant emotions… In China the ideal level of life satisfaction was considered to be neutrality—neither satisfied nor dissatisfied
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East-Asian culture is too emphatic on appearance, on not losing face and less on the real content and true feelings. The importance of ‘face’ (面子; mian4 zi3; the numbers here refer to the tones) is well-known.
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"Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality." ~ Earl Nightingale
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"Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition
and emotion will one day become a reality."
~ Earl Nightingale
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