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Podcast Episode: THE ABSOLUTE
Pip: What if the deepest question in philosophy isn’t “what is the Absolute” but “why does asking the question already miss the point?” Dippack Mistri has been sitting with that paradox, and the result is not light reading. Mara: Today we’re in the territory of the Absolute — Brahman, Consciousness, Samadhi, and what it actually… Read more
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Podcast Episode: THE METAPHORS OF VEDANTA
Pip: If you have ever stared at the ocean and thought, “yes, this explains everything,” you may already be halfway through a Dippack Mistri post. Mara: This episode covers one extended piece of philosophical writing — Vedantic metaphors, what they actually point to, and where they run out of road. Pip: Let’s start with the… Read more
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Podcast Episode: Wisdom of a Cherry Tree
Pip: If you have ever walked past a cherry tree and thought, nice fruit, moving on — Dippack Mistri is here to suggest you missed the entire sermon. Mara: That is exactly the territory this episode covers — one tree, one garden, and what a season of blooming, feeding, and bare winter branches has to… Read more
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Wisdom of a Cherry Tree
The Wisdom: A Cherry Tree Ashram: Fruits of Enlightenment The Puranas (Hindu religious scriptures that include mythology, tradition, etc.) teach us that we should treat trees with as much care and importance as members of our own family. In India, many trees, banyan, pipal, mango, etc., are worshipped. The writer will go further and state,… Read more
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Podcast Episode: Deep Sleep is not enlightenment
Pip: Every night you vanish — no ego, no stress, no bank balance — and yet you wake up exactly as boring as you were before. Dippack Mistri has thoughts on why that is. Mara: This episode follows that question into Vedanta’s account of deep sleep, karma, and the states of samadhi — all the… Read more
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Deep Sleep is not enlightenment
Every night you enter deep sleep. the mind disappears. The ego disappears. The world disappears. No stress. You I and disappear. No Wife. No Lover. No status. No Bank Balance. Zippo. Gone with the wind. Elvis has left the Stage. Yet, when you awaken, the ego returns. The Wife returns. The mistress returns. Stress returns.… Read more