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What is Beauty?
The world invests a lot in “beauty”, specially on the manufacturing of an artificial impression of “beauty” based on skin colors, textures, shapes, body proportions, clothing patterns, etc. This is a multi billion dollar industry. This industry spans from cosmetic products to apparels and clothing to plastic surgeries to even gyms. What you want to…
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Is Life a Jigsaw Puzzle?
Many gurus tell you that Life is a Jigsaw Puzzle, and your job is to figure out the puzzle and put all pieces into place. All pieces are supposed to fit into neatly to create the overall picture that makes sense in the grand scheme of things. So, try to find out what your life…
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Tiny Pale Blue Dot
Hi family, I just made a YouTube video inspired by a book I read for my daughter. You can watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACyEZrus0oY This reminded me of the speech by Carl Sagan that I had read about many years ago. You can watch Carl Sagan’s speech here- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupToqz1e2g When you think about things in…
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The Book of the Dead
The Tibetan Book of The Dead- also known as Bardo Thodol- is an important book for us all to read because it makes you think about death, and prepare you to face it with calm and composure when the time comes. However, the most important part of the book is in the Introduction under the…
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About the Movie “My Dinner with Andre”
Have you watched the movie “My Dinner with Andre”? I like the movie because it gives a good example of what epiphanies look like. Not enlightenment but the very first step of the journey. When Andre says “ Yeah, well, most…most people I met thought there was something wrong with me. They didn’t say that…
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What you can learn from Buddhism?
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Good Dream or Bad Dream
If you’re dreaming, does it even matter what you’re dreaming? The contents of the dream don’t matter. It feels like it matters a lot, of course, as long as you’re in the dream. For you, everything matters: Who will win the election? How much will the price of bitcoin be next year? All matters to…
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Who are you when you are asleep?
When you are in deep sleep, Are you male or female? Are you rich or poor? Are you happy or sad? Are you successful or failure? Are you beautiful or ugly? Where do the dualities and dichotomies exist? If they exist and unexist Are they real? If they could disappear in your sleep, Do they…
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Who is a good teacher?
A good teacher is one whose goal is to make himself unnecessary. If you always need the teacher, that’s a bad teacher. If you always need the driving instructor to be in the car, that’s a bad driving instructor. The goal of a teacher should always be to make himself unnecessary, redundant. A true teacher…
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You are a billionaire
I read this on Twitter/X and thought this message is really valuable for the readers of my blog, too. So wanted to share this with you all here. The author of this is not definitely I (not yet a billionaire 😀) and the credit should entirely go to George Mack who goes by @george_mack on…
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WINNING IN REAL LIFE
Spirituality is not for everyone. The spirituality page will blow your mind, and will make you quit the system rather than win and have fun in the system. The playground is there for you to pretend and play. Spirituality makes you get out of the playground. You don’t need that. What you need is tips…
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Poem 1
When you have nothing, you are the richest When you have no place to abide, you are Home When you know nothing, you are the wisest When you have nothing to accomplish, you are Done. When you are asleep to the waking life, you are Awake. When you have lost everything, you have gained the…
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BOTTOM LINE
This post represents the synthesis of everything I got to say about spirituality and enlightenment. This is my most direct message to you. I can not get any more direct than this. Everything else is a different way of saying this.
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A Tribute to Charlie Munger
(As always in all of my blogs, italics are direct quotes, and non intalics are my own writing) I have had several icons of inspiration in my life so far. During early childhood, Einstein, Newton, etc. used to be my role models. During high school, I was a huge fan of Richard Feynman. Then, during…
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The Razor’s Edge
Have you seen the movie The Razor’s Edge? I highly recommend it. It’s one of those movies that I liked so much that I read the book after seeing the movie, because I didn’t want to miss a single good line. This has happened a few times, where the movie impressed me so much that…
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Kalama Sutta
Although these were taught by Buddha to his disciples on methods of enquiry, this is equally valid for any scientific enquiry as well. Do not simply believe what you hear just because you have heard it for a long time. Do not follow tradition blindly merely because it has been practiced in that way for…
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Tips For Studying Better and Scoring High in Exams
This page will have a collection of articles that I had written between 2007-2011 for different platforms and which I combined for the Journey of Success Book. These have not been edited since their first publication because these tips are more effective coming from Bishal Gyawali of 2007-2011 rather than Bishal Gyawali of 2023. Click…
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Have confidence, Believe in Yourself
Originally written in 2011, edited with extra comments in 2023 If you think you are beaten, you are; If you think you dare not, you don’t; If you like to win, but you think you can’t It is almost certain you won’t. If you think you’ll lose you’ve lost, For out of the world we…
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