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My plan is to prepare an outline of the pastime, the highlights, the purpose and mood of the personalities and any personal realisations so I am prepared for the odd occasion when I might be called to speak on the topic. Often one is requested to speak on an appearance day without much warning and it is too late to do an in depth preparation.
.: Prabhupada Letters :. Anthology
1973 October 13: "Regarding reading other books, I request you to stop this practice. Our students have no time to read our own books, but they have time to read other's books? You have correctly found the defect in these books. We don't want babaji class. We want active preachers."
We want active preachers, not overly scholarly theoreticians.
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Creativity and thinking. More from Presentation Zen and John Cleese on getting away from it all.
Providing some elbow room for the mind to absorb and reflect also allows the intelligence to function properly. Even if we aren't focusing on the problems at hand!
John Cleese makes an interesting comment refering to the old saying, "Let me sleep on it!" I've experienced this many times myself, most recently while contemplating topics for our next Bhagavad-gita study sessions at Krsnafest. I'd been giving it some conscious thought but wasn't making much progress. At least that's how I felt. After waking on Tuesday morning the solution came to me instantly. Check out the embedded video of John Cleese speaking on this topic in the article from Presentation Zen. Humourous and thought provoking.Amplify’d from www.presentationzen.com
One of the main problems for many of use today is that we are always in a hurry and our minds are a bit scattered juggling many balls in the air. But if we are racing around all day with a busy mind, Cleese says, we are not going to have many creative ideas. We must slow down our minds to see the connections. There is some evidence that insights, for example, are best captured when we slow down, clear the noise and do not think about the problem at hand.Read more at www.presentationzen.com
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How the internet makes us stupid. My father told us that television rots your brains. Now it has a competitor.
Sometimes I'm doing so many things at once I forget what it is I'm doing. As soon as I sit down to chant Hare Krsna my mind can think of all the important things it forgot to do. For some reason it's averse to purification. It loves the business, the hussle and bussle of it all, infected with the mode of passion. Yet, I find if I can drag my mind away from the thrum of doing to a more introspective place it can analyse and process a vast range of issues with clarity and precision sometimes without even actually focusing on any particular issue at all.
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The picture that emerges is troubling, at least to anyone who values the subtlety, rather than just the speed, of human thought. People who read text studded with links, the studies show, comprehend less than those who read words printed on pages. People who watch busy multimedia presentations remember less than those who take in information in a more sedate and focused manner. People who are continually distracted by emails, updates and other messages understand less than those who are able to concentrate. And people who juggle many tasks are often less creative and less productive than those who do one thing at a time.Read more at www.theage.com.au
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New Yorkers Go Dough Nuts for Prasadam | ISKCON News
Mark and the doughnutsWhat do you think of when someone says the word, “Doughnut”? Fast food chains? Cops in a car pretending to “stake out a joint” while guiltily putting on the pounds? Perhaps Homer from the Simpsons saying, “Mmmm… sugary, fried, greasy treats…”
Whatever your thoughts are, the words “healthy” and “spiritual” probably aren’t amongst them.
Yet Doughnut Plant, one of the trendiest and most popular doughnut shops in New York City, has managed to make these words synonymous with its fare.
via news.iskcon.com
I'm glad to hear that this place is still going strong. I have fond memories of their fare from my last visit in 2007. Its one place I am looking forward to when we arrive later this week. The doughnuts are huge and delicious. Your stomach will hurt because you ate too many!
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