அயனின் அமைதி

அடி கண்டிலேன் என்று அச்சுதன் சொன்னதும்
முடி கண்டதாய் பொய் மொழிந்த அயன்
நாணி சொல்லிழந்து அமைதி அடைந்தானே!

Krishnas dance

Small pond
still wind
quiet mind!

The wind dances
leaves dance
waves on the pond dance!

Reflection of leaves,
dance in the pond!
Reflection of waves,
dance in the leaves!

Thus witnessing
Krishnas dance
mind dances
in rapture!

Reminding us the Mundaka

Saw a crow
effortlessly perched
at the top
of a tall,
very tall
coconut tree!

It appeared
oblivious to
the world
blindly racing beneath!
Or may be
was the world
oblivious to it?

Dear crow!
Are you reminding us
the upper bird
of Mundaka fame?

Links

In Denial of Fukushima

Fukushima also demonstrated unambiguously that communities living near nuclear facilities would be the worst affected in the event of an accident, a lesson that hasn’t been lost on the local populations in Koodankulam and Jaitapur.
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The first point to note is that the very statement that the likelihood of an accident is zero is scientifically untenable; every nuclear reactor has a finite, albeit small, probability of undergoing a catastrophic failure. What’s more, because of the complexity of the system and the many ways in which accidents could occur, this probability is never calculable with full certainty.
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A second question: is the confidence on the part of officials about the zero probability of accidents good for safety? This is not a question about technology but about organisations. The problem is that because of the potential for accidents, nuclear technology poses extreme organisational demands.
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Safety scholar James Reason once noted: “If an organisation is convinced that it has achieved a safe culture, it almost certainly has not.”

Why I am leaving goldman sachs

It makes me ill how callously people talk about ripping their clients off. Over the last 12 months I have seen five different managing directors refer to their own clients as “muppets,” sometimes over internal e-mail. Even after the S.E.C., Fabulous Fab, Abacus, God’s work, Carl Levin, Vampire Squids? No humility? I mean, come on. Integrity? It is eroding. I don’t know of any illegal behavior, but will people push the envelope and pitch lucrative and complicated products to clients even if they are not the simplest investments or the ones most directly aligned with the client’s goals? Absolutely. Every day, in fact.

Why I left google

Google was the rich kid who, after having discovered he wasn’t invited to the party, built his own party in retaliation. The fact that no one came to Google’s party became the elephant in the road.
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The old Google made a fortune on ads because they had good content. It was like TV used to be: make the best show and you get the most ad revenue from commercials. The new Google seems more focused on the commercials themselves.

Quotes from the book Living from the heart

Some really wonderful quotes from the book - Living from the Heart: Heart Rhythm Meditation for Energy, Clarity, Peace, Joy, and Inner Power by Puran Bair

• Trust requires honesty and reciprocity. We don’t trust someone who doesn’t trust us. Where does it start? It starts with someone who has found something in himself or herself that is trustworthy and who looks for the same in others. Such a person is often a 'deep' person, who thinks about things deeply. This quality is developed by meditation.

• Practicing meditation has been compared to exploring a castle - the castle of the mind. As a result of this exploration, the mind of the meditator holds fewer surprises than that of one who has not yet explored the inner depths and heights. Consequently, the meditator is more reliable over a greater range of unexpected events.

• To be what you want to be, you need the help of your closest allies: your body and your mind. If you have trained them through concentration and rhythm, they will respond to your wish.

• The mind follows the tuning of the heart. If you try to control your mind directly, it easily escapes. But your thinking follows the desire of your heart like a raft follows the current.

• Drugs don’t produce energy in the taker; they only borrow it from the next day. Taking drugs is like taking out a shortterm loan with high interest.

• It is the stream of desire flowing in the heart that gives us our sense of direction. When we are unaware of this stream of emotion, we waste our time in pursuit of things whose attainment doesn't bring us happiness, and neglect those things that would fulfill us. The Heart Focused state can be disruptive to a life organized to avoid emotion and fill time with unimportant activities. Your heart will remind you of what you have always wanted, and then the question is, "What are you doing about it?"

• Although upward meditation provides relief from stress, downward meditation increases one’s ability to handle stress. What was stressful before will no longer be stressful or as stressful. We cannot remove all stressors from our life, and life would be boring if we could. What we can do is increase our physical and emotional strength, the strength of the heart, so that we can better handle the stress we have. Then, without making any changes in our life situation, we are at ease where we used to be tense.

• Don’t row against the current, and don’t simply float with the current, but direct your will along the current. In meditation we are consciously aiding an experience that we do not create consciously.

• Doing Meditation is like swimming in an infinite ocean of energy or, some would say, of love, spirit, or peace. As in swimming, there is a little technique to be learned, and there is a risk of the unfamiliar. When we learn to swim, entering the water seems like taking a risk, even though our bodies are mostly water and even though our natural buoyancy makes swimming easy. We don’t have to support our weight—the water does it. The water surrounding us has a current, making movement in one direction easier than in others. We learn to trust the water and then to direct our motions to navigate through it, diving deeply, swimming far, and generally enjoying our fluid nature. Swimming, like meditation, allows movement through a space that would otherwise be a barrier and an experience of an otherwise inaccessible portion of the world. When there is a barrier on land, one can go by sea.

Life and Death

ஓரில் நெய்தல் கறங்க, ஓர்இல்
ஈர்ந்தண் முழவின் பாணி ததும்பப்,
புணர்ந்தோர் பூவணி அணியப், பிரிந்தோர்
பைதல் உண்கண் பனிவார்பு உறைப்பப்,
படைத்தோன் மன்ற, அப் பண்பி லாளன்!
இன்னாது அம்ம, இவ் வுலகம்;
இனிய காண்க, இதன் இயல்புணர்ந் தோரே.

-- puranaanooru 194

Witnessed live the first two lines yesterday! :)

Transcend it by perfecting it

We transcend that which we have perfected! Yoga assists us in this - identification and perfection of the various dimensions of ourselves!

குழம்பி உலகம்

கழுதை கெட்டா குட்டிச் சுவரு
பார்த்தா கெட்டா குழம்பி உலகம்!
அதான்பா, காபி வேர்ல்ட்!

Keshavaya Namah, Madhavaya Namah

Links

Do not disagree

Nothing is more fatal for disagreement and dissent than the idea that all of it can be reduced to hidden sub-texts or external agendas. You may be a supporter of Bt brinjal or nuclear energy. But you ought to worry if we became a culture in which no one was spooked after Fukushima, or suspicious of data on agricultural technologies. The idea that anyone who disagrees with my views must be the carrier of someone else’s subversive agenda is, in some ways, deeply anti-democratic. It does away with the possibility of genuinely good faith disagreement. It denies equal respect to citizens because it absolves you from taking their ideas seriously. Once we have impugned the source, we don’t have to pay attention to the content of the claims.

IPS officer crushed to death by mining mafia in Madhya Pradesh

Prabhakaran’s son was killed in cold blood by Lankan forces?

ரௌத்திரம் பழகு!
Practice righteous anger!

Heart Index Questionnaire

Take a few minutes to take this questionnaire! Pretty useful :)
Heart Index Questionnaire

Purpose of Sattva

The purpose of sattva, is to transform all of rajas and tamas into sattva and then to perform self-destruct - much like the shutdown process, which first kills all other processes and then kills itself!

When any of these qualities are needed later, they can be created on the fly!