Tag Archives: spirituality

Muscling your way to enlightenment

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

“You may have the Gita in your left hand but have a football in your right.”
So said Swami Vivekananda, according to the reminiscences of A. Srinivasa Pai.
This raises an interesting and often neglected aspect of spiritual development — physical exercise. Hinduism, like most other religions, seems sedentary — after all, if sitting for years on [...]

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Are you religious?

Monday, January 4, 2010

A friend asked me the other day if I am religious. I said yes, but I am not sure why. I could not define the word in a Hindu context.
One interpretation is that being religious is equivalent to being a practicing Hindu — being aware of and following the many rich traditions and rituals our [...]

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Hacking Life

Saturday, October 17, 2009

The noted technologist and entrepreneur Paul Buchheit recently wrote an philosophical blog post on what he calls “hacking”.  He writes:
“Every system has two sets of rules: The rules as they are intended or commonly perceived, and the actual rules (“reality”). In most complex systems, the gap between these two sets of rules is huge.”
Hacking, then, [...]

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