Mind Bubble ! !

Microwave ...my new TOY ! !

2009-12-09T21:16:00.000-08:00

Here is the dish I did ‘Shree Ganesh’ with….microwave

‘Waved’ cashew….
This is one of the easiest things to make. You need :

Cashew nuts…
Any oil (olive will taste x-lent).
Salt (to taste)
Spices ( what u like)
Microwave

Take cashew nuts in the microwave bowl. Sprinkle little olive oil , now this should be just enough to cover cashew nuts. Add salt. Than add some spices, here I add oregano which comes with your Domino’s pizza. Put it in microwave for 50-60 seconds. Let nuts go little brown. After that is done, let those nut cool or else it will be soft. After cooling only they will become crunchy and salty.
This goes really well with juces. This is served if you happen to go to Birlas.
Enjoy…

Website of the Month...

2009-09-24T22:30:00.000-07:00

http://www.veryfunnyads.com/ this site is wow!...checkout some rally crazy ads all around the world....
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Lovely NRI Ramayan....Must read...

2009-09-20T20:54:00.000-07:00

A young second generation Indian in the US was asked by his mother to explain the significance of "Diwali" to his younger brother, this is how he went about it...

" So, like this dude had, like, a big cool kingdom and people liked him. But, like, his step-mom, or something, was kind of a bitch, and she forced her husband to, like, send this cool-dude, he was Ram, to some forest or something... Since he was going, for like, something like more than 10 years or so. he decided to get his wife and his bro along... you know..so that they could all chill out together. But Dude, the forest was reeeeal scary ... really man... they had monkeys and devils and like that. But this dude, Ram, kicked ass with darts and bows and arrows... so it was fine. But then some bad gangsta boys, some jerk called Ravan, picks up his babe (Sita). And boy, was our man, and also his bro, Laxman,... all the gods were with him... So anyways,you don't mess with gods. So, Ram, and his bro get an army of monkeys..Dude, don't ask me how they trained the damn monkeys... just go along with me, ok... So, Ram, Lax and their monkeys whip this gangsta's in his own hood. Anyways, by this time, their time's up in the forest..and anyways...it gets kinda boring,you know... no TV or malls or like that. So,they decided to hitch a ride back home... and when the people realize that our dude, his bro and the wife are back home... they thought, well, you know, at least they deserve something nice... and they didn't have any bars or clubs in those days... so they couldn't take them out for a drink, so they, like, decided to smoke and ..and since they also had some lamps, they lit the lamps also... so it was pretty cooool...you know with all those fireworks... Really, they even had some local band play along with the fireworks... and you know, what, dude, that was the very first, no kidding.., that was the very first music-synchronized fireworks... you know, like the 4th of July stuff, but just, more cooler and stuff, you know. And, so dude, that was how, like, this festival started................

Let your dreams awaken you

2009-09-19T01:53:00.000-07:00

Some thin about sleep and dreams…! ! !
This is very interesting. You sleep all your life, but you have never met your sleep. Or like a person who is sitting at the dining table with a delicious, elaborate meal, without knowing how to eat it.
It is the same with our life.
Sleep is there but we do not know how to sleep! We dream everyday and we do not know what a dream is.
When you sleep you let go of everything. If you hold on to anything, can you sleep? In sleep, your identity vanishes. You are neither male nor female. There is no difference between a rich man’s sleep and a poor man’s sleep, between an intelligent man’s sleep or a stupid man’s sleep. Sleep is sleep.

Next come dreams. Ignorant people make their dreams a reality and enlightened people see reality as a dream! Utter ignorance is trying to interpret dreams. Enlightenment means realising reality is a dream. Do you see the difference? If you go to an enlightened person and say this is my dream, he will say “Forget about it and wake up”. When you go to a dream interpreter, they say, “Oh! this means that, that means this.” Such ignorance!
There are five types of dreams.
1. Which comes up in the form of cravings or your unfulfilled desires. They appear in dreams as fulfillment. Have you experienced this? Your latent desires always show up in your dreams.
2. The second type of dream is stress release from the past. All you have experienced in life comes up as dreams.
3. The third type of dream is an intuitive dream — where you think of what might happen in the future.
4 The fourth type of dream has nothing to do with any of these. It is to do with the place where you are sleeping. For instance, if you are sleeping in a hotel in Italy, in your dream, you may experience Italian sounds and feelings.
5. The fifth type of dream is a mixture of the four. You never know one from the other. So you cannot really distinguish a dream and say, “this is my intuitive dream”. It could be, it need not be. A wise person would simply brush them aside.
Even this waking reality is a dream. Now you are sitting and reading, tomorrow you will be doing something else somewhere else and next week all this will be a dream. What you would do next week is a dream right now. Your mind dreams more when it is awake.
You have only two states of consciousness. One is deep sleep and the other is the dream state.
A person who is day-dreaming does not know he is day-dreaming. The moment he knows that he is day-dreaming, he awakes to the reality that very moment, instantly. Are you day-dreaming? Are you sleeping? There can be only two possibilities. There is no third possibility……

Still day dremin?...hhhun?

This is the extract from the article from Indian Express on 22nd April 2007 by sri sri…

Back with a charm...! !

2009-09-18T10:39:00.000-07:00

Sorry to keep all you sweet fans waiting for such a long time. I promise to update the blog regularly….wait and watch the smash hit articles…hope it will be better than my orkut profile…

Cheers,
Aditya

Bath and Enlightenment ! ! !

2008-08-01T10:25:00.000-07:00

Well this is a massage to all the people who do not cherish to take their everyday bath seriously (includes me too…). It goes this way:

Everyday early in the morning a Zen Master asked his disciples: how many of you have bathed this morning? Almost every body raise their hands dutifully. Next question: how many of you are aware you bathed when you did?
Not a single hand was raised.
Bathing is an act. Bathing with complete awareness that you are bathing is different. Today, all of you must have bathed (hopefully) and all of you were aware of what you were doing when you did that?
When you brushed your teeth how many of you were aware that you were brushing your teeth? When you were aware of the hot water on your body? Were you aware that your body was just getting ready after the bath, and your life was getting rejuvenated after the bath? How many of you were aware of all these things were happened?

A small Zen story:
A king went to a master, and asked: ‘Master how can I become enlightened? Tell me all the practices you do. What did you do to be come one? Pleas teach me’
The master says: ‘Oh! I eat when I eat; I sleep when I sleep that is all I do’.
The king could not understand. The master explained: ‘when I eat, I do not do anything else when I sleep I only sleep I do not do anything else’
But what we do? Recall how you eat. You will remember that you were watching TV or reading a magazine when you were eating. If you were calm, sitting quietly and eating your wife would have been there to report some problems in the house.
So in one way or another, when you eat, your mind does everything else but focus on the food and eating. You do every thing except eating.

We treat food with such scant respect. It is just a form of garbage bag. It withholds its energy unless you become aware of what you eat. If you treat your food with respect and are aware of what you eat when you eat, wellness results.
This is true even when you sleep! When you sleep you do everything else except sleeping. Because, only when have your nightmare and fear strokes. You then have disturbed sleep. When you are dead tired ….you sleep 100%.
Catch yourself in the act. Become aware. That will set your inner transformation in motion.
Ok …if does not make any sense to you….its fantastic….but it is certainly a great idea to take a bath …since it keeps people around you HAPPY and GAY ! ! !.

Quote of the week....

2008-07-20T09:54:00.000-07:00

I have learned that you shouldn't speak unless you can improve on the silence....

JUDO

2008-07-16T10:10:00.000-07:00

JUDO

Meaning: JU- gentle or soft, DO- Way; gentle or soft way.

The first DOJO (place to practice) was in the grounds of the Eisho-ji Temple in Tokyo comprised just of nine members in 1886. It was started by JIGORO KANO.
About the sport: Judo, a martial art in which judoka, or judo players, use movements, balance and leverage to gain advantage over each other. Seems heavy to understand, let me make it simple…
Judo has three main aspects
1.Throwing and grappling techniques.
2.Chocks - or strangulation techniques in which we actually cut off the blood and air supply to opponents mind.( I have done it…I m not kiddin)
3.Bone locks - extremely pain full, dangerous, since it takes no time to brake bone joints.
Listening this, one will think how judo is ‘gentle way’. Believe meit is the sport to enjoy our sweat or… others perhaps some times… well this sport is a byproduct of master sport ‘JUJUTSU’ which is even dangerous for…. both the players.

And yes… it different from other martial arts because in judo you can not kick or punch a person, so do not confuse it with Karate or Kung Fu or Kickboxing or Sumo wrestling…please.
I will put up some more interesting facts and literature about JUDO….

Martial arts and Spirituality

2008-07-16T09:35:00.000-07:00

This article may seem as superficial thing but there is a lot of similarity between the two.
Before going ahead with what ever I have written I would like to declare that I am not master in either of the two. I have practiced martial arts for around 5-6yrs now. And I was introduced to spirituality by ART of LIVING. I was amazed to find that there was lot in common. I have tried to put together masters of both the field. At one end it H.H. Sri Sri Ravi Shanker and other end is Bruce Lee (Ref: ‘TAO OF JEET KUNE DO’).
The things which I found common were:-
1. YIN and YANG / opposite values are complementary.
In fight when opponent is of aggressive nature the smart martial artist will fight with calm mind and depends on his simple tools like timing of the strike and limited movements. Smart fighter will gain control over aggressive fighter’s attitude. It stands true in judo where we use opponent’s energy and motion to throw him. And to my surprise it works.
‘Soft can control hard, u can brake a wooden boards, some bricks, but try braking sponge’ - Bruce Lee.
2. Present moment is inevitable.
When we are in fight we need to be so much there because even a blink of an eye is important. A trained fighter’s (international players) time their movements according to opponents ‘blink timing’ i.e. they actually calculate that what is the intensity of the opponents eye blinks, so that they can plan an attack accordingly.
Give full respect the opponent.
In JUDO when we start to practice or fight we bow down and formally ask for play and when we finish we formally do the same. And when we enter the birth place of judo in Japan it welcomes you with a saying
‘IN SPRIT UNITED, IN SKILL OPPOSED’. – Eisho-ji Temple, world’s first judo DOJO, 1886, Tokyo.
If we are little aware of the story of Ramayana we will find that both Rama and Ravana had respect for their opponents (listen Guruji’s Holi tape).
3.Greatest fight is within.
I learnt this from both the sides that until and unless you don’t defeat the person inside you u can not win on the mat. I think spirituality is the thing which introduces to person inside me and martial arts helped me over come it many times. Both parties showed my new potential, which was otherwise unused.
‘If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still be like mirror. Respond like an echo’. – Bruce Lee.

KISS OF the DRAGON ! !

2008-07-13T02:55:00.000-07:00

‘When u do good …some thin good happens to you’.
Recently some thing happened, which is keeping me in dilemma. Tell me how I react to this situation.....
Recently I was standing below my office and discussing some thing with my office friend. A car (Ford Endevor) stopped, a lady and a child got off that car an walked in to a store. Now, the driver had kept the car running, he hadn’t put down the engine. This provoked me to tell him to please turn off the engine as it was wasting fuel. The driver started arguing with me….as usual I started to explain to him hazards of air pollution. As I was arguing I said ‘ Jyada petrol hai to idhar de doo, mari bike me lagega…petrol free main ata hai kya?’ suddenly, from no were a ‘Hijra’ (Eunuch) came and kissed me…..i was like blank!!! it was so embracing situation….(I will not discuss what happened next…)

2008-07-12T09:26:00.000-07:00

Heloo all,

This wil be my first post for my blog.