Both Hinduism and Buddhism take a longer perspective upon mortality by viewing death not as the final act, but as a necessary step along the way. Beyond heaven and hell, salvation and damnation, this seems one of the more useful contributions from religion: the reassurance that to move on, all things must pass.
The previous instalment in this series explored the fifth limb of yoga: introspection (pratyahara), that post compared our mental experience to a stream of loosely connected and often repetitive thoughts. Dharana, the sixth limb, then considers how to deal with that torrent and focus awareness elsewhere.
The Rainbow Festival can galvanise one’s faith in humanity and inspire different perspectives. With tickets limited to around three hundred, it’s also small enough to foster relationships and a sense of community.
Toward the end of the second “Lockdown”, the prospect of a month long, half price, first class, European rail pass seemed too good to miss. But for the best part of eighteen months that InterRail flash sale booty awaited activation.
You want to lose body fat. Your body fat’s maybe at 15%, you want to get it down to 12 0r 10% and the way you do that is by burning more calories than you eat.
Arnold Scwarznegger
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“I think AI will be capable of making you fall in love with it very well.”
Elon Musk
he’s made a few of these at Burning Man, this one stands out.
Of course there’s a graph.
It can often be hard to tell if the glass is half-full or half-empty and perhaps what doesn’t kill you really does make you stronger, either way it always helps to find a cloud’s silver lining.
Something about boys 