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by kranner 5y ago
That would have been fun! But in this case it doesn't work. The PIE root is *h₁ger- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%97%E...
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Yes, all-nighter neighbourhood parties centred around prayer and group singing of religious music have been an integral part of Hindu religious practice for a long time. They are literally called “jaagran” (‘keeping awake’) or “jagraataa” (
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That makes sense, thanks.
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I'm in India, a non-wealthy non-AC too-hot-to-work-at-noon country (for most parts of the country almost all through the year). I was responding to this sentence: > In some countries it's very hot at noon so working is difficul
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Just want to mention Jeff Warren's wonderfully quirky book from 2007, The Head Trip [1] which was where I first encountered the idea of the 'night watch'. [1] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show&#
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Isn't air conditioning intended to solve the too-hot-to-work problem?
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Anapana(sati) is a specific kind of onepointedness exercise on following the breath; there are many, many more. (Literally, āna is inbreath, āpāna is outbreath, sati is 'remembering of'). What the (Goenka) Vipassana tradition teac
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There seems to be an endless variety of Pointing Out / Rushen instructions in Dzogchen. Some work better than others for individual meditators. But personally I feel there's a strong placebo component to it as well. If you come in
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They're common in India as well. My dad uses one every day in the (North Indian) winters.
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ADIEU!
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This writing advice -- recycled from newspaper house style guides -- to use only simple and common words in efficient sentences is becoming almost universal, and yet "good writing" doesn't always obey these rules. Sometimes y
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Great article! Interesting aside about the 'Ghost Pepper' (Bhut Jolokia) referred to in the article, a former world record holder for hottest chilli pepper, native to Northeast India: the 'ghost' (bhut) label arises from
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> Don’t eat late at night. Not eating late at night is the healthy choice but it definitely delays sleep onset for me. On the other hand I do seem to need less sleep if I don't eat late in the evening.
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Thanks for the tip, I haven't tried it with the PC Kindle app! An additional issue with (most) Hindi books is that they aren't supported on the Mac app, so they don't even download into the app's storage, let alone as st
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I do the same thing for my Kindle purchases. Luckily I have a Paperwhite whose serial number works with DeDRM to strip DRM for all my Kindle purchases (except Hindi books which are not downloadable for some reason).
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I'm talking about your statement of "disrupt[ing] the Indian financial system at the behest of their US govt". It's a pretty strong claim. If you have any evidence for this, please share it here.
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> If they think it's time to move beyond cards due to the strategic overdependence on foreign service providers like Visa who can disrupt the Indian financial system at the behest of their US govt Is there any evidence that the RBI
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From the HN guidelines: > Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."
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Please list these books and sources. An 8000 year old timeline is quite a leap over the current consensus which is 3500 years (the Rigveda, whose earliest inscriptions are found way outside the subcontinent all the way over in Syria). Also
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This is not mindfulness. They actually compared against a mindfulness-based treatment (MBSR) and found their method performed significantly better.
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Not GP but personally I have found limiting caffeine consumption to help a lot with back pain. More than one cup of coffee (12g of beans) seems to result in exacerbation of any minor back pain I may have on that day. I also now take a day o
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Oh, I was agreeing with your remark regarding the issue almost always being in the tissue!
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Sarno started with first ruling out physical causes with checkups and investigations. Only after that did he attribute pains to TMS, only if conventional treatment had not cured the pain.
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The program referred to above, PSRT, is based on John Sarno's work. In his book Sarno stresses that physical causes to chronic back pain must be ruled out first. He only treated patients with his mind-body awareness methodology after i
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That's a lovely phrase. I actually use showertime to observe a different aspect of the sensory experience everyday; the touch of the water as it moves around, the sounds of water and soapbar moving, etc. On some days it can be a comple
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Sincere question: what do you mean by "spiritual improvement"?
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The Further Reading sections at the ends of volumes 3 (Philosophy in the Islamic World) and 5 (Classical Indian Philosophy) by Peter Adamson et al are great.
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Not denigrating Western Philosophy at all -- whose ubiquity may well be due to Eurocentrism primarily -- just saying there's more to look at elsewhere if one is interested in philosophy in general.
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> Life is so short, read nothing but the cornerstones (this may not be that) of western thought. I'd like to recommend Bryan W Van Norden's book "Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto" for those willing to
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A recent book about it is "The Dark Side of Dharma: Meditation, Madness and Other Maladies on the Contemplative Path" by Anna Lutkajtis, based on her PhD research on the subject. https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Side-Dh

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