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Comment · 4 years ago
Yeah. I know even living in B'lore you are blind to your own culture. The authentic breathing techniques are passed on by so many practitioners and time-tested, unlike modern western crap.
Comment · 4 years ago
- Why not Jesus? Because church bastardized Jesus so hard, they filled the whole fucking book with prruuuufs of his existence instead of teaching the essence of his thinking.

Stop wasting your time on Church and find better alternatives from the east.

Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Bound to happen. Why do you think Buddha has to leave all his wealth and kingdom before even starting the journey of mindfulness, leaving everything behind?

The western adaptation is reducing meditation and mindfulness to a "tool" of relieving stress and better ones mental well-being. As easy as downloading an app and stay calm for few minutes.

Unfortunately, this is not ideal. The traditional way is to seek a guru who asks the disciple to cleanse their heart first. Put them on the spiritual path of purifying the soul. Meditation is a part of ones spiritual journey. Some even leave everything and go to forest or mountains to practice for years.

Fortunately, for those who want to live in a society closely, they should practice "Raja Yoga" which is also a spiritual path where one raises their spiritual plane by helping others and following ones duty with high-integrity.

However simple breathing exercises still work for the body and can be easily incorporated into every day lives. There are so many apps helping with the patterns of different breathing techniques.

But don't expect you or anyone to become a better person just by doing some mindfulness exercises. When one goes to discover/amplify their inner core, you will just highlight whats inside you more. I.e. if you are bad, you will get worse. Mindfulness has nothing to do with it but just amplifying what is already there as you discover yourself more through mindfulness.

Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
Play Dual-N-Back everyday. I felt the difference personally. Feels hard in the beginning, but keep going. You can feel the difference in a month. All the best.
Comment · 6 years ago
Predestination
Comment · 6 years ago
Fringe (TV Series)
Comment · 6 years ago
Using pearltrees.com for a while. I usually keep them well organised but when I want to find something, i usually do a search. Using historysearch.com these days, which is more inline with modern day needs i believe.
Comment · 6 years ago
Used to do something similar with Microsoft Light switch.
Comment · 7 years ago
UK. I recently bought a new phone and when I opened google photos app for the first time, it asked to store local trained models to enable AI features for the app.
Comment · 7 years ago
I remember google popping up a consent to store the AI models for the facial recognition locally on my phone (not in the cloud)! If this is the case, the lawyers are wasting their time, I guess.

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