Anony Mouse

[Anony Mouse @AtTheKhshitij]

Khshitij.
The Horizon.
The edge between Earth and Sky/Space.
Earth is a metaphor. For the material world, the world of cyclicality, impermanence, birth and death, of the web of cause and effect, of Karma...
Sky too is a metaphor. Of stillness, Space, of the Eternal, of peace..1/

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

In 2013, Stanford doctors zapped a spot behind a man's forehead and he instantly felt a storm coming, with an overwhelming urge to drive straight into it and fight instead of turning back.

He wanted more of it.

They tried a second patient and got the same result. Chest tightening, rising heartbeat, the strange certainty that something hard was coming and he could take it. Move the electrode 5 millimeters, nothing. Tell the patient it's on while delivering no current, nothing.

The region is called the anterior midcingulate cortex, the closest thing science has found to a physical home for the will to persevere. And it works like a muscle. It shows up bigger in people who regularly push through effort they'd rather skip, and it's one of the best preserved brain regions in superagers, 80-year-olds whose memory tests like people decades younger. It grows through one input only, effort you genuinely didn't want to give.

Debt grows it. So do 5am alarms and long stretches of working alone with no guarantee.

Which is why the swig and the head bob in a parked car make perfect sense. That's the tissue collecting its payment. You drive into storms all week, you earn one loud song where everything, briefly, has already worked out.

[Montagnard @blancmontagnard]

i think it's an interesting case of code having been around for long enough that any obviously high value issue that *could* have been solved with it was solved with it already

[NyanChuu🔮🇯🇵🍭 @tanpukunokami]

A man in Canada wrote to me:

“I read your posts at work.

I agree with most of them.

But I would never say any of it out loud.”

I asked him why.

He replied:

“Because disagreement is no longer a conversation.

It becomes a complaint.

Then a meeting.

Then a file with your name on it.

And sometimes, no job.”

That stayed with me.

Not because he lives under a dictatorship.

Because he doesn’t.

He lives in a country that calls itself free.

So I’ll keep saying what he cannot.

Not because I’m braver.

Because I’m farther away.

Until ordinary people no longer need a stranger in Tokyo to speak for them.

[Anony Mouse @AtTheKhshitij]

@kspaceonx Ah. Thanks. Will watch😃

[Anony Mouse @AtTheKhshitij]

@kspaceonx Pixel looks stunned. Is all that edible?😀

[Anony Mouse @AtTheKhshitij]

@kspaceonx Neuro? MSK? 🤗

[Sahana Singh @singhsahana]

While the rest of the world was struggling with Religion vs Science, ancient India had an interesting triple approach of Adhibhautika- Adhidaivika and Adhyatmika. We could worship the Sun as a Devata (Adhidaivika), as a material astral body whose distance from Earth could be measured (Adhibhautika) and as the illuminating force within us (Adhyatmika). Alas, this freedom did not exist yet outside India; Socrates was put to death be cause he questioned if the Sun and Moon were gods in the pre-Christian era, and we know what happened to Galileo as late as the 17th century in the Christian era.

[Kpaxs @Kpaxs]

Pain is just the tax on being alive. the actual choice, the only choice you ever really get, is which pain. And almost everyone, by default, chooses the worse one.

Clean pain hurts because you're doing the right thing, not because you're avoiding it. It's the sensation of reality arriving. It's the cost of contact with the actual world: the world where you don't know how to do the thing yet.

Clean pain is sharp and brief. It spikes hard and then it drains. You tell the truth, your heart pounds, and then relief. You send the scary email, you feel sick for ten minutes, and then it's done and you're free. you sit down and write the terrible first paragraph and after twenty minutes you're just... writing. Clean pain has an end. It's a payment. You pay it and you walk away lighter.

Dirty pain is the pain of dodging the clean pain. It's the pain of watching your life shrink around a fear you refuse to face: you don't tell the truth, so you manage the lie. And managing a lie is a part-time job with terrible hours.

Dirty pain is dull and chronic. It doesn't spike, it hums. It never resolves because you never paid it, you just kept refinancing it, rolling it forward, letting the interest compound.

Clean pain is a payment. Dirty pain is a subscription you forgot you signed up for and can't find the cancel button on. And the cancel button, of course, is just the clean pain you skipped.

[Fyodor Dostoevsky Collection 🪓 @Dostoevskyquot]

Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later and are seldom clearly manifest.

[Parimal @Fintech03]

Critics love to say, "Hindus destroyed all the Charvaka texts because they hated atheism." This is a massive historical half-truth.

It is true that independent, primary Charvaka sutras like the Barhaspatya Sutras did not survive the ravages of time, climate & foreign invasions, their entire philosophy survived precisely because Orthodox Hindu scholars meticulously preserved it.

In the unique tradition of Indian debate (Shastrartha), there is a foundational law called Purva Paksha (the opponent’s view). Before a Vedantin/a Nyaya scholar could present their own philosophy, they were strictly required by academic law to state their opponent’s view with absolute honesty, depth & perfection w/o twisting it.

The most common mistake critics make is assuming "Charvaka" was a singular, outcast rebel. The etymology tells a completely different story.

In Sanskrit, the name is derived from 2 roots:

- चारु (Cāru): Sweet/pleasant/elegant.
- वाक (Vāka): Speech/words.

In the Ramayana (Ayodhya Kanda), when Jabali uses materialist arguments to convince Rama to abandon his exile, he is speaking as a royal advisor using elite statecraft logic. The Charvakas were deeply embedded in the royal courts as ministers because their materialist, hyper-logical focus made them incredible economists & political strategists.

The most detailed, comprehensive layout of the Charvaka system exists in the Sarva-Darshana-Samgraha, written by Madhava Acharya, the 14th-century head of the Sringeri Sharada Peetham & orthodox champion of Vedic thought.

If Hinduism was a dogmatic, insecure faith, its highest religious leader would not have dedicated the opening chapter of his magnum opus to archiving the exact arguments against the soul, rituals & God. He preserved his enemy's armor so he could sharpen his own sword against it.

The biggest source of pleasure for those trying to target Sanatan Dharma is shouting, "See! Charvaka proves Hinduism contains its own contradiction!" This assumes Hinduism functions like Western, dogmatic religions.

In the Western framework, religion is a closed box of Belief vs. Heresy. If you do not believe the book, you are an infidel.

In the Indic framework, it is Darshana. The civilization categorizes systems based on Astika (accepting Vedic authority) & Nastika (rejecting Vedic authority).

Sanatan Dharma is the civilizational canopy that contains both the Astika & Nastika schools. Charvaka is an internal product of the Indian mind, utilizing Sanskrit, interacting within the same cultural context & participating in the same intellectual ecosystem.

Name 1 other ancient civilization on Earth that took its absolute materialist, anti-theist, anti-scriptural critics, cataloged their ideas with academic perfection, gave their founders the title of "Rishi" (Sage Brihaspati is traditionally credited with its origins) & preserved their arguments within its own sacred encyclopedias.

You will not find 1.

Charvaka does not expose a flaw in Sanatan Dharma; it exposes its ultimate, unparalleled intellectual freedom.

[Daniel Foubert @d_foubert]

There are different levels of reading.

Some people read the way dogs eat food. They swallow words without stopping to process them. The eyes move, the pages turn, but almost nothing is examined, questioned, or connected.

Reading is not the act of looking at text. It is the act of reconstructing an idea inside your own mind. Every sentence should be tested against what you already know, against logic, against the rest of the argument.

Finishing a book is easy. Understanding it is something else entirely.

[Mukul Dekhane @dekhane_mukul]

The kind of complex thinking a pani puri vendor does daily is mind-blowing.

Take a simple evening at a stall. Six people standing, each on their 5th or 6th puri, some already demanding a second plate. Suddenly a new customer walks in. Most vendors don’t say, “Wait.” They just weave the person seamlessly into the cycle.

Now imagine the mental math:

Remembering who is at which puri.

Keeping track of whose turn is next.

Managing fresh plates, second plates, and shared plates; all together.

Customizing taste (extra teekha, more meetha, no aloo, jain, swaminarayan).

Balancing chutneys, potatoes, and flavored water so nothing runs out mid-cycle.

Handling payments; immediate, delayed, or credit.

Running logistics: how many plates to sell to survive the day?

And this is just the basic complexity.

All of it is happening in real time, with no Excel sheet, no CRM, no team, no reminder app. One mistake, and the customer knows instantly.

Now compare that with our white-collar world. We call ourselves multitaskers but lean on reminders, tools, meetings, and buffers. A pani puri vendor doesn’t get that luxury. For him or her, complexity is not a skill on the CV; it’s survival.

The next time you eat pani puri, notice not just the taste but the brilliance of the brain behind it.

#Amazing

[VatsRohit @KesariDhwaj]

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[Vero @Vero_Dei]

Japan's combination of Shinto, Zen, & Confucianism produced something very specific: the complete sacralizing of the ordinary. There is no split between spiritual life & material life. Making a sword perfectly IS spiritual life. Sweeping a floor with full attention IS meditation.

[Vero @Vero_Dei]

Indigenous Japanese spiritual tradition is unique because its core insight is that the material world is sacred. Every object, every space, every natural phenomenon contains kami, spirit, divine presence. A sword, a bowl, a garden, a mountain all potentially sacred. This produces

[Abhishek Singh @abhiart]

While Greek & indian epics are compared, one of the biggest differences is that the Greek heroes fought for ‘Glory’ to be remembered , while the indian heroes fight for ‘Dharma’ to restore balance. Two very different ideas. And No, Dionysus is no where close to Shiva.

[Anony Mouse @AtTheKhshitij]

@kirtigaiyer All the best. Everyone has thier favourite Gita and commentary. May you find one that you will love.

[Anony Mouse @AtTheKhshitij]

@kirtigaiyer Swami Ranganathanandas work is called " Universal message of the Bhagavad Gita". Its actually a printed form of his lectures, so a bit long, but you can skip and go to next verse, because its arranged verse by verse. I loved it. Profound.

[Anony Mouse @AtTheKhshitij]

@kirtigaiyer too long and with anecdotes which I didnt like that much.
Swami Ranganathanandas 3 volume Bhagavad Gita is a bit long but the philosophy is explained in depth..its conversational but goes verse by verse, word by word where necessary