Blogs Posts on "Otherness"
School by Living with Asperger syndrome on Oct 22, 2009 At school, the torments of ‘otherness’ reach an exquisite crescendo. Some days, you may run home and beg never to be sent back. But you must return, as that’s the way of the world. See the post on Bully for some survival tips.
I’m more “other” there than here. by 760 Days in Morocco on Sep 28, 2009When I was 5, I stepped off the kindergarten bus and asked my mother if “I was a Rican”? All the kids at school were apparently teasing me that I was Puerto Rican. In the town where I grew up, we had a significant Puerto Rican immigrant populat...
The other Otherness by Archaeological Haecceities on Sep 13, 2009For quite some time now archaeology has been swamped by agency approaches in one way or another. This is the result of a need to know how human agents become socialized beings. A theme in Western thought of how human beings are socialized is that the...
Thinking, free will and self-attentiveness by Happiness of Being - The Teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi on Aug 16, 2009The following is a reply that I recently wrote to a friend:Regarding your final sentence, ‘We are only given the thoughts that we are allowed to have, and we can only act from the thoughts we are given’, who gives us the thoughts that we are allo...
‘Tracing the ego back to its source’ by Happiness of Being - The Teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi on Jul 12, 2009A friend recently wrote to me asking:I am stuck at a point where I feel I need help ... While reading Sri Ramana Maharshi’s work and Talks, there is this constant mention of tracing the ego back to the source. When I try to do it there is an arrest...
Atma-vichara and metta bhavana (‘loving-kindness’ meditation) by Happiness of Being - The Teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi on Jul 4, 2009A friend recently wrote to me asking:I’ve got a question concerning atma-vichara in relation to some meditation techniques.Before I came across Sri Bhagavan's teachings I practised some form of Buddhist meditation which is called ‘metta’ or lov...
Sadhanai Saram – an introduction by Happiness of Being - The Teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi on Jun 27, 2009As I had intimated in several of my recent articles, today I have uploaded the following four new e-books to the Books section of my website:An e-book copy of the English translation by Sri Sadhu Om and Michael James of Sri Arunachala Stuti Panchakam...
Sadhanai Saram – The Essence of Spiritual Practice (sadhana) by Happiness of Being - The Teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi on Jun 27, 2009As I had intimated in several of my recent articles, today I have uploaded the following four new e-books to the Books section of my website:An e-book copy of the English translation by Sri Sadhu Om and Michael James of Sri Arunachala Stuti Panchakam...
Upadesa Tanippakkal – an explanatory paraphrase by Happiness of Being - The Teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi on Jun 26, 2009In continuation of my previous six articles, which were explanatory paraphrases of Upadesa Undiyar, Ulladu Narpadu, Ulladu Narpadu Anubandham, Ekatma Panchakam, Appala Pattu and Anma-Viddai (Atma-Vidya), the following is the last of seven extracts fr...
Ulladu Narpadu – an explanatory paraphrase by Happiness of Being - The Teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi on Jun 14, 2009
