Letters on Yoga p636)

"...the silent mind and the quiet mind are differing orders of perception:

"The first step is a quiet mind - silence is a further step, but quietude must be there: and by a quiet mind I mean a mental consciousness within which sees thoughts arrive to it...   more »

Well one of my side projects is starting to gell as we have been requested by Doctors without Boarders to provide 50 shelters.
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http://www.thepod.net/

www.icosavillage.com
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The Vanishing

I vanish in the fog,

a literate man in a video age

a hypertext body dissolved by hydrometers,

a corporeal existence seeped in dense sea stratus;

saturated by images,

pixel shrouded postmodern mist,

a final form of deciphered flesh,

deconstructed bits of binary extract,

without even a mote of dust to ...    more »

I am reading Rushdie's latest on Kashmir and although he may present pre-independence Kashmir in idyllic terms. I find the following passage somewhat amusing in the manner he uses the term integral as India envisions Kashmir. In the following passage The Rajput Indian Army officer Colonel Kachhwaha,  who he describes ...   more »

Murray Gell-Mann is a Nobel Laureate in physics and perhaps one of the nations greatest scientist. As a scientist he also is a skeptic of unexplainable phenomena such as mystical experience. However being a person also concerned with the complexity of the universe he is also against just dismissing such matters ...   more »

Kashmir was my gateway to India and has thus been my point of departure for a spiritual journey. The following was written in response to a story I heard on NPR    more »

The attached article by Howard Gardner (the seven intelligences) shines light on the linguistic philosophy of Noam Chomsky and others. In Chomsky language is presented as an innate human quality and although encoded in our DNA it unfolds as a mental organ, not entirely reducible to biological functioning of the brain, but exists ...   more »