By: Srini

Srini — Mon, 23 May 2011 17:23:02 +0000

Thanks for such a wonderful post Atanu. My belated Birthday wishes to dear Gautam Buddha.

By: Hari

Hari — Fri, 20 May 2011 00:03:54 +0000

I believe there is no way of understanding the world other than through the mind, the instrument given to us. And the instrument is subjective; there is no way out of it. There is probably no objective reality out there (only degrees of subjectivity), no purpose or meaning to life. Nature is continuously unfolding a script that is totally unknown to us or any other species. It is only the arrogance of us humans (an extension of the individual ego) that leads us to believe we are here for some special purpose, to discover the true nature of reality etc. Out of this arrogance come theories — religious, economic, scientific etc. Some are probably better than others, but in the end, even science will never capture anything about “life”, because science is also subjective — science is also a product of the subjective mind.

Once this delusion disappears (and this perhaps what the Buddha was trying to do), life, now stripped of an abstract unknowable purpose and “how to” philosophies, can become very simple and easy.

I like your criticism or religious ideologies and people like Sri Sri, but economic theories (no matter how attractive or mathematically sound) are futile too.

By: Satya

Satya — Wed, 18 May 2011 20:37:00 +0000

Thanks a lot Atanu for posting the video. It is soothing…very soothing…had a disturbed mind today and the impact was tremendous…

Thanks again.

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