This video which has Alan Watts’ voice opens us up to looking at life through another prism. Not as a journey, but more as a playful happening, with no end result or end goal. There is no necessity for life and neither is it going anywhere. “Playfulness” is the key concept he speaks of. Life is best understood via the analogy of music according to Alan; since music essentially as an artform is playful. Being a musician since I was six years old, this has been my intuitive understanding since childhood. Playfulness and joy are the two pillars life needs to be constructed around and slowly a deep interiorisation of the process begins through consistency and practice, which eventually results in constant joy.
Category: Politics & India
The Art of Not Trying
The blog name change is inspired by this video. Watch it, when you can take a short moment to yourself. These days there are a multitude of videos, thoughts and a high level of information flow and more pieces of unwanted notes, that we are bombarded with. Nevertheless to truly absorb words like these, we need to create space inside, a way of listening with the “non mind”. Don’t use your intellect, just absorb the words of the great Master Lau Tzu 🙏
Hope you enjoy this!
Wish You Were Here
This Eid…singing one of my favorite #PinkFloyd numbers #WishYouWereHere #UseGoodHeadphones.
“Wish You Were Here is the ninth studio album by English rock band Pink Floyd. It was released on 12 September 1975 by Harvest Records in the United Kingdom and a day later by Columbia Records in the United States. Inspired by the material the group composed while performing around Europe, Wish You Were Here was recorded during numerous recording sessions at Abbey Road Studios in London, England. “
Journalists should reveal their sources
@dennistarapore: Media wants politicians to be transparent, but do not want sources to be revealed. Why? Can’t journalists be transparent? #mediawatch
We demand and demand for politicians to be transparent. We cry for open decision making. Most journalists want impeccable standards from the entire world. But what when they break their own codes!
Journalists often demand special treatment, ask for favours and refuse to remain transparent about their sources? Why? Given the secrecy on sources, how many hide behind imaginary self created sources to extend their line of argument? And besides if the source is not revealed, why should I believe the journalist? Should she not have the same integrity being demanded of politicians and the rest of the world?
Dennis Taraporewala 