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11/06/2023

05/06/2023

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06/08/2021

"The Secret"

don't worry, nobody has the
beautiful lady, not really, and
nobody has the strange and
hidden power, nobody is
exceptional or wonderful or
magic, they only seem to be
it's all a trick, an in, a con,
don't buy it, don't believe it.
the world is packed with
billions of people whose lives
and deaths are useless and
when one of these jumps up
and the light of history shines
upon them, forget it, it's not
what it seems, it's just
another act to fool the fools
again.

there are no strong men, there
are no beautiful women.
at least, you can die knowing
this
and you will have
the only possible
victory.

C.Bukowski

02/08/2021

I’m no genius. I’m smart in spots—but I stay around those spots. - Thomas Watson

21/07/2021

You may like Justin Bateman's philosophy .............. I have been exploring land art for many years, inspired by artists such as Andy Goldsworthy and the spiritual practices of Tibetan Monks.

The monks will spend many hours creating sand mandalas, only to blow them away once complete. Impermanence is an important feature of my work; how long does an artwork need to exist in order for it to have value? Rejecting the materials of 'high art' such as bronze and oils (the stuff of 'Renaissance God's) and returning to a simplicity more akin to our cave-dwelling ancestors. You might say pebbles are my pixels.

In a world with a relentless appetite for more, I prefer to use less; the record of my work is only a digital footprint as I leave no physical trace of my presence in the environment. My work explores themes of people, place and time, order and chaos.... 'The entropy of life'.

My work has been featured on ITV, International News, BBC radio and the front page of Reddit Arts.

06/07/2021

"A monk decides to meditate alone.
Away from his monastery, he takes a boat and goes to the middle of the lake, closes his eyes and begins to meditate.
After a few hours of unperturbed silence,
he suddenly feels the blow of another boat hitting his. With his eyes still closed, he feels his anger rising and, when he opens his eyes, he is ready to shout at the boatman who dared to disturb his meditation.
But when he opened his eyes,
saw that it was an empty boat, not tied up, floating in the middle of the lake ...

At that moment, the monk achieves self-realization and understands that anger is within him;
it simply needs to hit an external object to provoke it.

After that, whenever he meets someone who irritates or provokes his anger, he remembers;
the other person is just an empty boat.
Anger is inside me. "

Thich Nhat Hanh

30/04/2021

“I believe that we, that this planet, hasn't seen its Golden Age. Everybody says its finished ... art's finished, rock and roll is dead, God is dead. F**k that! This is my chance in the world. I didn't live back there in Mesopotamia, I wasn't there in the Garden of Eden, I wasn't there with Emperor Han, I'm right here right now and I want now to be the Golden Age ...if only each generation would realise that the time for greatness is right now when they're alive ... the time to flower is now.”

― Patti Smith

30/12/2020

Misleading title and misquoted content. But good to create awareness in hindi on

24/12/2020

Mental Health Awareness Webinar for Tech Mahindra Smart Academy for Healthcare.

21/12/2020

"I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be."

By Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

01/11/2020

"When we yell at a child — or even threaten with something like 'I'm starting to get angry,' we're training the child to yell," says Markham. "We're training them to yell when they get upset and that yelling solves problems." In contrast, parents who control their own anger are helping their children learn to do the same, Markham says. "Kids learn emotional regulation from us."

01/11/2020

"Bruce Alexander, a professor of psychology in Vancouver, explained to me, the idea of addiction we've all got in our heads, that story, comes partly from a series of experiments that were done earlier in the 20th century. They're really simple. You get a rat and you put it in a cage, and you give it two water bottles: One is just water, and the other is water laced with either he**in or co***ne. If you do that, the rat will almost always prefer the drug water and almost always kill itself quite quickly. So there you go, right? That's how we think it works.

In the '70s, Professor Alexander comes along and he looks at this experiment and he noticed something. He said ah, we're putting the rat in an empty cage. It's got nothing to do except use these drugs. Let's try something different. So Professor Alexander built a cage that he called "Rat Park," which is basically heaven for rats. They've got loads of cheese, they've got loads of colored balls, they've got loads of tunnels.

Crucially, they've got loads of friends. They can have loads of s*x. And they've got both the water bottles, the normal water and the drugged water. But here's the fascinating thing: In Rat Park, they don't like the drug water. They almost never use it. None of them ever use it compulsively. None of them ever overdose.

You go from almost 100 percent overdose when they're isolated to zero percent overdose when they have happy and connected lives." ~Johann Hari

Source: Everything You Think You Know About Addiction is Wrong (TED Talk) https://www.ted.com/talks/johann_hari_everything_you_think_you_know_about_addiction_is_wrong

See Also:

What Rat Experiments Can Teach Us About Addiction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-0KfwFCMRM

The Opposite of Addiction is Connection https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/love-and-s*x-in-the-digital-age/201509/the-opposite-addiction-is-connection

Rat Park Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajk9uEDEUQc

The Dislocation Theory Of Addiction (Bruce Alexander) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0HjpSGmS00&t=160s

The Power of Addiction and The Addiction of Power: Gabor Maté at TEDxRio+20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66cYcSak6nE

Beating Drug Addiction - The Rat Park Experiment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpvjH9cVJDI