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kr4
10y ago
It's not impossible but it requires a long sincere practice to peel off the layers of false identities that we associate ourselves with. These are gradually created starting right from our birth. However one way it's true because
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meditation is just like teaching yourself programming for years. after 10k hours of practice in either you can reach to a state of expertise. E.G., you can write any kind of software in your expertise with ease. Similarly you can repeat the
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so tell me any theory that tries to validate the existence of non-material consciousness. Giving loads of names of scientists won't help in establishing what modern science says about consciousness. The current stance is to try to defi
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10y ago
It's not mandatory to have a guru (teacher isn't a right translation of Guru) to follow path of self-realization however, having one certainly help. When someone asked Ramakrishna (the Guru of famous Vivekananda) similar question
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The original goal of meditation isn't to solve mental problems (though it helps when you really have them) but rather to realize that you're not this body, mind, thoughts etc we often associate our selves with. Yoga sutras starts
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10y ago
meditation not done correctly and without guidance would mostly result in no progress. You should try meeting Om Swami [0] to check for yourself the man who has attained spiritual adeptness with meditation – he'd be in Canada next mon
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Modern science hasn't even started to appreciate the existence of consciousness let alone validating which is the better method. The Himalayan yogic and tantrik traditions have gone to the depth of consciousness, dimensions, multiverse
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11y ago
The climate is changing, but how significant is the role of human in it should be the subject of debate. Many scientists have observed that the changes taking place in climate is cyclical and anthropomorphic cause is very limited. FUrther i
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Evidence will be shown when the right moment is. HSBC was participating kneck to kneck with drug smugglers and making billions a week from that illegal and immoral trade. eventually they were fined only a few billion which they make from th
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It's on here http://zcomm.org/wp-content/uploads/zbooks/www/chomsky/rab/r... Simple searching on google showed me on the first page (third result). The amount of truth we see is relative
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11y ago
I just saw a comment by Noam Chompsky, "Americans don't know what's going on. But they don't even know that they don't know." I think "Americans" can be replaced with "people in general" (
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You don't need to bribe all the media, just blow the whistle in one major outlet and rest will follow the shues for maximum coverage.
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11y ago
(couldn't reply to your other comments as it seems the comment depth is reached.) Let me make one thing clear: I've not defended VW for the cheating they've done, not even once. I've just drawn attention toward the bigge
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11y ago
>>> the whole thing was initiated by a European non-profit that contracted the WVU back in 2013/2014. The EPA ignored the results for a full year. The VW CEO already resigned in April, several months before the EPA went crazy,
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11y ago
Media Is independent in words but all the mainstream media outlets are controlled by handful of corporates (during 1990s, most of these outlets bought by few corporate houses). These houses have interests related to military-industrial com
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11y ago
Please read my other comments with facts supporting it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10718312 actions of this magnitude are generally guided by multiple and often hidden interests/agenda. Only if we able to perc
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11y ago
Some people in this thread rightfully raising a valid question that this cheating would be present in models of other manufacturers so why VW was only targeted and that with such a big fine announced in media which toppled VW's stocks
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There's a geo-political angle to this targeting. You'd find that the VW emition scandle and fine announcement came just during the time when Germany leaders were starting to get a bit cozy with Russia over sanctions ETC (I remembe
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There are no true black holes [0] as researched done by Scientist Abhas Mitra and his colleagues. >>> Astronomers have certainly discovered thousands of massive compact objects, which are considered as black hole candidates. In a
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11y ago
Hey your comment sounded lot like the ideas I got from OM Swami's article and book I refered in my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10613241 You may wish to check that out. Extensive reading on Yogic prospe
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If you'd like to read yogic prospective on depression [0] is a good start. [1] is a book on the same by the article's author Om Swami. However, let me warn you that this will venture you into concepts of human body you have likely
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How easy it is to change the policy adopted and executed for over 5 decades [0]. During this period both of the parties have sufficiently ruled Washington with same policy. Glenn Greenwald provides further documentation that the various Mid
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You may wish to read this [0] and this [1]. 0: http://rethink911.org/ 1: http://www.globalresearch.ca/twenty-six-things-about-the-isl...
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"We, the West, overthrew Saddam by violence. We overthrew Gaddafi by violence. We are trying to overthrow Assad by violence. Harsh regimes all — but far less draconian than our Saudi allies, and other tyrannies around the world. What h
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Thinking (or thoughts) are different from consciousness. A simple experiment can tell you this. Sit silently and observe your mind. You'd see thoughts keep on popping up, if you don't indulge with them, each would fade away quickl
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11y ago
Well NASA recently made a statement that there's no significant asteroid going to hit Earth for centuries to come thus shunning growing rumours by conspiracy theorist about Planet X. SO why are they spending dollars on such a scenario
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Tesla's clean energy dream realized? scientist unveiled Over Unity Generator
(collective-evolution.com)
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I've defined it already. As far as experience is concerned, there are multiple systematic paths (under different branches of Yoga) to experience this non-material thing which is self only, but unfortunately you can't do it with yo
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Who said that there's no definition provided? as per my understanding of Upanishads which are the most profound works on consciousness: consciousness (atman/soul) is self-existent, ever-blissful non-material energy. it has no begi
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It seems that the TPP, TTIP and TiSA are not about the sort of “free trade” that would free local businesses to sell abroad. They are about freeing international corporations from the government regulation necessary to protect the economy,
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