There are dangers in this world. And this series of my writing deals with means to cope with that danger. I began with floods and I am planning to cover droughts, earthquakes, epidemics, riots and even crime. But in our world, the only danger that is the deadliest, is the kind […]
Archives for September 2013
Learning by doing: The Facebook free month
This is a short post. My long postponed experiment with facebook absistence finally has paid off. I did really spend a month without logging in. This seems incredibly wussy by my own standards as I do set quite larger than life goals for myself and my followers. But tell you what, don’t knock it […]
Be Indestructible With These 10 Bulletproof Items
People that are affluent and in the public spotlight require protection that is subtle and concealable. Being in the public eye requires these individuals to wear clothing that does not stand out from the norm. No more is body armor the dominion of politicians and the military, it is now available for the elite who […]
Meditation musings 07: Stillness
Recently my mother met a friend on the street. “How’s your son doing? the friend asked. “Is he still unemployed?” “Yes,” my mother replied, “but he’s meditating now, so at least it’s better than sitting around doing nothing.” That was actually a joke, but it’s pretty close to the truth for me. The funny thing is that after years of studying and practising […]
Meditation musings 05 : Dating like a Seeker
The Solitary and ascetic lifestyles of mendicants, sages and monks has had us believe that Meditation is a reprieve of the lonely. Boy are they wrong. There some things that the modern mind can never grasp in their viewpoint of reality. It could save them a lot of suffering and heartbreaks if they had entered […]