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Yidam
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Posted : Oct 20, 2005 00:58
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I have to share this secret of a movie with u guys.
Its called Waking Life. The movie revolves around the theme of Lucid Dreaming. Beautifully done! The entire film is an animation over real life footage which adds to the surreal look.
If youve seen it do tell me what you think cos I had a brilliant dream the night I watched it.
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*Karma Cola*
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Posted : Oct 20, 2005 01:03
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On 2005-10-19 21:01, Raoul V wrote:
PLS PLS PLS read the Life of Pi people...
Abt god, religion, spirituality, humanity; really makes you look at humans and animals and their environment and the want to survive..., its a very deep book, thought this thread might be interested!!
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read it . its a good book, tho the end threw me off completely!!! Richard 
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acidity
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Posted : Oct 20, 2005 03:41
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Even I have read it but after a while I found it little dragging. Didnt finish the last chapter. Did I miss something?
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*Karma Cola*
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Posted : Oct 20, 2005 04:50
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On 2005-10-20 03:41, h2so4 wrote:
Even I have read it but after a while I found it little dragging. Didnt finish the last chapter. Did I miss something?
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argghhhhh!!!! Thats the best part dude.... hold on, did u pass the part about "richard parker'????
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jabba
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Posted : Oct 20, 2005 06:46
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Life of Pi people hmmmm need to get it asa i finish the one in hand.... seems interesting @KC can u give a liner
on this book before i burn my pckt . 
@va(no symb. on mi kibord)n and this animation where did you see it, is it available in India ?
Peace
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*Karma Cola*
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Posted : Oct 20, 2005 07:12
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@jabba
Here's the authors note in the beginning of the book. This part itself captured me..
"This book was born as I was hungry. Let me explain. In the spring of 1996, my second book, a novel, came out in Canada. It didn't fare well. Reviewers were puzzled, or damned it with faint praise. Then readers ignored it. Despite my best efforts at playing the clown or the trapeze artist, the media circus made no difference.
So I flew to Bombay. This is not so illogical if you realize three things: that a stint in India will beat the restlessness out of any living creature; that a little money can go a long way there; and that a novel set in Portugal in 1939 may have very little to do with Portugal in 1939. When I told a friend who knew the country well of my travel plans, he said casually, "They speak a funny English in India. They like words like bamboozle." I remembered his words as my plane started its descent towards Delhi, so the word bamboozle was my one preparation for the rich, noisy, functioning madness of India. I used the word on occasion, and truth be told, it served me well. To a clerk at a train station I said, "I didn't think the fare would be so expensive. You're not trying to bamboozle me, are you?" He smiled and chanted, "No sir! There is no bamboozlement here. I have quoted you the correct fare." thsi was the second time i came to India and this time I knew better what to expect and I knew what I wanted: I would settle in a hill station and write my novel.
I had visions of myself sitting at a table on a large veranda, my notes spread out in front of me next to a steaming cup of tea. Green hills heavy with mists would lie at my feet and the shrill cries of monkeys would fill my ears. The weather would be just right, requiring a light sweater mornings and evenings, and something short-sleeved midday. Thus set up, pen in hand, for the sake of greater truth, I would turn Portugal into a fiction.
Unfortunately, the novel sputtered, coughed and died. It happened in Matheran, not far from Bombay, a small hill station with some monkeys but no tea estates. It's a misery peculiar to would-be writers. Your theme is good, as are your sentences. Your characters are so ruddy with life they practically need birth certificates. The plot you've mapped out for them is grand, simple and gripping. You've done your research, gathering the facts - historical, social, climatic, culinary-that will give your story its feel of authenticity. The dialogue zips along, crackling with tension. The descriptions burst with colour, contrast and telling detail. Really, your story can only be great. But it all adds up to nothing. From Matheran I mailed the notes of my failed novel. I mailed them to a fictitious address in Siberia, with a return address, equally fictitious, in Bolivia. After the clerk had stamped the envelope and thrown it into a sorting bin, I sat down, glum and disheartened. "What now, Tolstoy? What other bright ideas do you have for your life?" I asked myself.
Well, I still had a little money and I was still feeling restless. I got up and walked out of the post office to explore the south of India.
Along the way, here and there, I got the response, "A writer? Is that so? I have a story for you." Most times the stories were little more than anecdotes, short of breath and short of life.
I arrived in the town of Pondicherry, a tiny self-governing Union Territory south of Madras, on the coast of Tamil Nadu. It was at the Indian Coffee House, on Nehru Street where i spent most of my time. It's one big room with green walls and a high ceiling.
The coffee is good and they serve French toast. Conversation is easy to come by. And so, a spry, bright-eyed elderly man with great shocks of pure white hair was talking to me. I confirmed to him that Canada was cold and that French was indeed spoken in parts of it and that I liked India and so on and so forth-the usual light talk between friendly, curious Indians and foreign backpackers. He took in my line of work with a widening of the eyes and a nodding of the head. It was time to go. I had my hand up, trying to catch my waiter's eye to get the bill.
Then the elderly man said, "I have a story that will make you believe in God."
I stopped waving my hand. But I was suspicious. Was this a Jehovah's Witness knocking at my door? "Does your story take place two thousand years ago in a remote corner of the Roman Empire?" I asked.
"No."
Was he some sort of Muslim evangelist? "Does it take place in seventh-century Arabia?"
"No, no. It starts right here in Pondicherry just a few years back, and it ends, I am delighted to tell you, in the very country you come from."
"And it will make me believe in God?"
"Yes."
"That's a tall order."
"Not so tall that you can't reach."
My waiter appeared. I hesitated for a moment. I ordered two coffees. We introduced ourselves. His name was Francis Adirubasamy. "Please tell me your story," I said.
"You must pay proper attention," he replied.
"I will." I brought out pen and notepad.....
basically i edited some of that.. but ist a great book to read when ur chillin out and its fun at bedside too.
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jabba
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Posted : Oct 20, 2005 07:49
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thanks bro , appreciate ....... will hav to get this one
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basically i edited some of that.. but ist a great book to read when ur chillin out and its fun at bedside too.
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and I tht I was a good sales man
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acidity
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Posted : Oct 20, 2005 08:47
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acidity
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Posted : Oct 20, 2005 08:55
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I dont remember now. I read around 5-6 months while during my flight to US.
But he wrote a lot about Richard Parker in the earlier chapters itself
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Psy Baba
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Posted : Oct 20, 2005 10:21
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Jabba doin great, long time, how is it goin ur way???Hope to catch up soon
Sorceress realy appreciate the way u write n u got the answer about the poem...
Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true...
Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you...
An EyE FoR An Eye MaKeS ThE WhOlE WoRlD BlInD!!!
ReAl EyEs ReAlIsE ReAl LiEs!!!
Psybaba's Flea market.SAVE EARTH say NO to plastic...
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Posted : Oct 20, 2005 21:11
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teachings of "krishnamurti"
"i am that" by swami nisargadatta
"awareness" by osho
"synchro destiny" by deepak chopra
"the tao physics" by fritjof capra |
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sorceress
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Posted : Oct 21, 2005 08:20
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now am feeling really bad for i've not been reading at all off late. 
but am gonna get Art of Dreaming soon... wanna read his interpretation of the sorcer 
@ Varun - Waking life indeed is a movie which tops my charts.
@ Psybaba - Dhanyawad 
@ pseudonymous - "Awareness" is infact one of best works done by Osho. has a lot of answers if one interprests them the right way... i say this even though am not quite a fan of his. 
Dont thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously use your intelligence
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psycoactive psybeing
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Posted : Oct 22, 2005 02:16
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There comes a moment, when i dive deep inside my self, i reach a stage where i transcend physical senses, then i enter the mental region, from where thoughts n imagination oozes out. As the process of thinking starts, different kind of scenes n visions comes before me, at this moment i try to concentrate on a vision i love most, n forget about rest.
I tend to fall asleep during this, but then i again shift my focus on the vision, n sort of rise above my mental region too, i rise above the vision n i witness this glowing beautiful light, gradually its like the moment when the sun is about to rise, slowly i witness this beautiful light which enters my being.
I feel the entity which lives in the light, sees the light, n enjoy the vision of this peace giving light. As i try to feel that entity, n try to realise it, i get lost n rise above the light, n hear sounds which i have never heard bfore, these sounds r so peacegiving, that i cant express by my words.
Im feeling it, n as i hear this sound, i try to catch the entity, which is hearing this sound, n as i try to go near it, n realise its authencity, i gets lost, u understand I GETS LOST, nothing i can remember what was it. Wht a trip, trust me worth exploring guys.
Get out of books n start diving inside, its beautiful trust me.
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Posted : Oct 22, 2005 17:31
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if we live conciously every moment in our life focused our mind in that supreme entity in every action we do than we start to dream more conciously and receive gods messages...then it is like dreaming the reality and see the secrets of our daily life projected inside our dreams with a mystical way as metaphoric signs,auto observation to auto exloration is the key to find our egos and left them behind...
have you ever had a conversation while dreaming with you inside deeper self and your conciousnes when thinks about the real truth we search in every step we do,I mean listen to your voice from inside telling you what is right and what is wrong while your ego saying the opposite?
~~~~~~~namaskar~~~~~~~~~
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Gopendragon
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Posted : Oct 22, 2005 17:45
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@psycoactive psybeing
books give a spiritual map to the journey light paths deep within us,it is a stage that we have to pass through the scriptures and book pages while we read,there some things that books helps us to go directly to the source,masters,gurus,and enlighted persons found
the fruit of knowledge truth and light centuries
before we do to give us an example about the way how to find light...it is very difficult get closer to the source of light
without a kind of
guidance and be completely alone.
at least in our first steps...
~~~~~~~namaskar~~~~~~~~~
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