Meditating on the Media
The media is the most powerful entity on earth,” said the American black militant leader Malcolm X, popular in the 1960s. For, in his own words, “They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”
How does the media do this? How does it control the minds of the masses?....
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Science Meets the Arts
Hardly? Impossible? Not in Bali.
Here, science and the arts are not poles apart. Here, science and the arts are not opposed to each other. On this beautiful isle of gods, the two not only meet, but also complement each other.
This is the inner significance of Saraswati, the Goddess of Knowledge and Music....
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Living Meditatively
Many people have a wrong notion of meditation and meditators. They feel that meditators should be in tattered clothes, and living in a hut, deep in the forest. Well, if you choose to live so, then that is your choice. But there is no rule that a meditator should live such a life.
In fact, living in the forest does not prove how meditative you are. Your meditation is proven when you live amidst the madding crowd of the world and remain sane....
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Celebrating Silence
We normally associate celebrations with noise, loud music, singing, partying and of course crowds of people. Not so with the Balinese; not always. Here, on this isle of gods, silence and solitude are celebrated too. Indeed, the most important celebration here is that of silence. Yes, I am speaking about Nyepi – the day of silence....
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Becoming Mastermind
Having written last week that “hypnosis or hypnotherapy can be used as tools to open one to meditation,” or to strengthen an already weakened brain, I must, once again, emphasise this. Hypnosis and hypnotherapy are not the only tools; there are several other, much, much safer ones, including but not limited to certain yogic exercises.
Why do I say “much, much safer tools”? Do I imply that hypnosis or hypnotherapy is not safe enough as a tool?...
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