Showing posts with label kusang. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kusang. Show all posts

Friday, June 22, 2012

Spelling Out Kusang

As always, we love to share examples that communicate our timeless topics of Satsang in a contemporary if not relevant way, and a fellow sabhaologist sent us this example to explain the idea of kusang.

More than often on the topic of kusang we find ourselves hearing about immoral folks who threaten to take us off the path to moksh, but kusang is much more subtle than we often think it is - just like the words we input into a search query on Google.
Grammar predicts a query as much as the people we choose to include in our circle. We all have our flaws, but some flaws carry more danger (e.g. pressure to break our niyams) than others (e.g. crave chocolate incessantly). Our awareness of these defects can do much to safeguard our satsang like a simple spell check can do to guiding a more meaningful search.

Friday, December 18, 2009

The Situationist: The Situation of Violence (12/2/09)

In 1961, Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted an experiment to show how the right context can override an individual's values and morals. Watch below.





Full Storyhttp://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/the-situation-of-violence/

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

SciAm MIND: Parents & Peers

"There is no doubt that peers matter."

Duh - any parent or kid knows that - BUT...

"The research shows they matter more when the parents ignore their impact, do not address their impact or do not take actions to ameliorate negative impact."

Enter family time (i.e. ghar sabha).

Full Article: Scientific American Mind; Nov/Dec2009, Vol. 20 Issue 6, p4-4