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(from here: http://www.ruzov.ru/gita.html)
Однажды корабль мудрецов потерпел крушение на необитаемом острове. У несчастных не было ни крошки еды с собой. Было похоже, что они все погибнут, потому что дни проходили за днями, а помощи ждать было неоткуда.

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Иногда нам кажется, что умение видеть недостатки в других — это проявление разума. Наверное, я психолог, раз вижу все проблемы окружающих меня людей. Но в трактатах такое видение не называется благородным, разумным или проницательным. В трактатах такая способность называется обыкновенной глупостью. Говорится, что глупый способен во всем увидеть недостатки, а разумный способен во всем увидеть достоинства. А святой способен во всем увидеть руку Бога.
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Взято отсюда: http://www.ruzov.ru/bg/8/8_5.html

Stumbled upon this Anna Karenina review:
http://www.dailyfilmdose.com/2009/11/anna-karenina-2009-version.html

apparently there r 2 American versions which author rates better than russian's adoptations...

I gotta read the book now... Though Solovyev's Anna Karenina is exactly how I would imagine Tolstoy painting character's portraits: a woman wanting more from men than she is getting, driving everyone crazy;
people too busy with the outside glitter and rules and feeling empty because of that; and the most stable and level-headed guy is the one who lives out in the village, not connecting to the society but connecting to Nature, just like Tolstoy himself.

weird that communicating via chat or email there is that great connection...
but u talk to a person tet-a-tet and then it's very regular?

R people more true in chats as there they r the way they want to be?
Or the heightened demand for quick results is satisfied by virtual communication? As dropping protective layers takes time when you see body language of another?

Once every 5 years US citizens, in random order, get together to celebrate Justice. We do it in the local court houses after we get a celebratory invite by mail. The rules of the game - you have to show up on time, and you can't say no.

We, about 100 to 200 law abiding citizens, sit in a spacious hall. We are different - languages, colors of the skin, short, fat, skinny, some in jeans, some in suits, bored, sleeping, laughing - one big family.

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Мы сейчас есть то, с кем мы общались раньше, и в будущем мы будем подобны тем, с кем мы общаемся сейчас

Бхактивинода Тхакур

So I was taking a train and admired this guy, he was around 50 talking to a woman his age... His eyes were exuding a mix of interest for her affairs, life joy, happiness - U can tell from a single look - he is happy with his life and loves his wife and family (well, in a sentence or 2 he asked a woman if she had kids; and of course shared a bit about his and what his wife says about them)...
U know what surprised me - he looked a lot like one guy I know, that guy has no friends, easily gets attached to people and while he has a very humane job, he says he already did enough for humanity and is ready to meet people who would do something for him...
I think the biggest difference between those 2 guys - being satisfied or not with life - and the rest starts from there... Then I looked around the train - all people could be glowing with light and love and life - so everyone has this huge amplitude of potential - the rest is totally up to us... Everyone can be sooooo attractive if ups the charisma factor :)

So looking around the floor now, about 75% of people are from India (I am not counting US citizens who were born in India but are hired as american employees), on business trip here - imagine how our NY team has shrank...
Hmmmm..... That's out of about 150 people...
I spoke with a guy who is here from Chennai, he says that's the result of our management being greedy and thinking Indian work-force is cheaper... The positive for me is that I really like Indian guys, but I am also against work romances... :)

Marma points therapist, an aurvedic practitioner in 4th (?) generation, Manjula, was playing my body like an instrument. Adding different essential oils depending on the pointsof the body to be pressed, so the mind would follow the movement and relax into a needed state...
I felt lighter and lighter by body parts - those that were massaged seemed to start to glow a bit from the inside - explanation - energy flow improves, Nadi (energy channels) are cleared. Same I experience after a really heating, deepening & amazing yoga practise...

After marma points massage, results are said to stay in the body and influence how the life flows through it... Will report, so far me is me :)

Here some explanation on marma points from our yogi teacher:
http://www.ishtayoga.com/articles/8

(from http://www.bleckt.com/pritchi/2034/)
В середине 20-х годов молодой еврей пришёл к известному нью-йоркскому раввину и заявил, что хочет изучить Талмуд.

- Ты знаешь арамейский? – спросил раввин.

- Нет.

- А иврит?

- Нет.

- А Тору в детстве учил?
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A theater stage spills into a movie... Minimalistic... What is good turning bad and bad turning good?
Natural responses put into us, like not accepting offense and putting people emotionally where they should be according to their actions - apparently a God given tool of balancing it all...

I know my friends who went are: in awe... amazed... loved it...
Not me :(
It felt sooo non-sensual... After lots of Indian dances I watched where play and sensuality and making the opposite gender fall for you with a single movement of eyes, here Tango was rough and angled... With 'passion' (I couldn't even call it passion... just bodily functions requests?) building up on nothing and dissipating as fast...

The dance itself was ok, not as inspiring as I would expect as I love any kind of dance...
I liked the lighting of the show a lot - making light flat and sharp to underline the emotions... Also slowing down the movements to underline & and make action 'more magnified' was nice...

blah...

Как трудно иногда отпускать... Зная что если ты вернёшься, вокруг опять завертятся розовые лепестки вишен и запахнет весной... А пока пахнет горько-сладкими осенними листьями, и от печали воздух делается чуть-чуть прозрачней...

Having decided to walk the path of light, you are seeking to find
the image of God within yourself, and you would like heavenly
beings to help you in your work Do not think you have to do
extraordinary things for this to happen. No, you need only start
with one very simple thing: become aware of all the riches you
have already received, and seek to turn them to good account, so
you can share them with others, too. Those are the best
exercises. Try from now on to be mindful of what you have so far
overlooked. Don't let a day go by without finding at least one
thing that brings you some joy, some clarity Concentrate all
your attention on it, and ask yourself how you can share it with
those you meet. Until you make up your mind to adopt this
attitude, heavenly beings will turn away from you, and the doors
of the invisible world will remain closed all except one, and
that one leads to darkness and suffering.

You are not in your mind - your mind is in you
You are not in this building - the building is in you
You are not in the city - the city is in you

Everything is in the consciousness and we project... And we can be happy only once we feel there is no separatedness between it all, as we are projecting from a single place... and that place is Gd... And our souls are its pieces...

Thinking of watching Matrix through this new found view :)

Almost forgot I am going for his lecture tonight:
http://www.opencenter.org/an-evening-with-deepak-chopra-reinventing-the-body-resurrecting-the-soul/

Prihodite :)