Mobius Strip

In the previous blogpost, we discussed the significance of abhyasa to promote citta shuddhi (purification of mind-intellect-ego) within us. Which progressively helps one establish themselves in yamas and niyamas (the first two limbs of Ashtanga Yoga). One may face many obstacles, which act as deterrent to the process of citta…

The thinking mind is a machine for turning a profit under whatever circumstances it might find itself in, and this means that it has to be operating in the context of a situation in which there exists better and worse. If there is no better and no worse then it…

We are gods, but for the Wisdom. As a child, I used to think of robots as our future companions. In my imagination, their relationship with humanity was that of a friendship. Growing up, I witnessed how our relationship with robots changed over time in pop culture. From a friendly…

Most people are familiar with a möbius strip, literally a surface with a twist: a long continuous object with only one side. But what about a möbius shape that is instead made up of several parts hinged together? A team of scientists led by Johannes Schönke and Eliot Fried at…

We have been taught to view time as linear, but what if it isn’t? Our only experience of time is the present moment. The past is a memory, the future exists only in imagination. Time is a construction of our mind, as are objects in space. Our minds translate a…

היום ארבעים יום, שהם חמשה שבועות וחמשה ימים, בעמר Today is forty days, which is five weeks and five days, of the omer הוד שביסוד A day of humility in a week of foundation A couple of months ago, half-way into a tutoring session, my student asked me, “Marilyn, do…