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Desert Rose

2/25/2011

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As a firm and strong believer of Buddhist philosophy I also believe in life after death. I believe that we would come back to this world multiple times until the day we overcome our desires and stop being born. So one day I was having this conversation with another friend of mine, who was born into a Buddhist family, and who became a doctor, and stopped believing in after-life. During a conversation on why I do and why he doesn’t believe in after-life he said the following:

“As scientists we learned to draw empirical conclusions based on observations. Only difference is that I have learned to stick to empirical evidence while you continue to go beyond empirical evidence!! The danger of that is human imagination is so rich that anything can be imagined. Try and close your eyes for 2 minutes. Now imagine a rose blooming in the desert. It is possible isn't it? Is it plausible? Imagination makes anything possible but we need to get it to the level of plausible. Religion operates at the level of possible”

His comment about the ‘rose in the desert’ and it’s ‘possibilities’ made me create the following presentation.
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A colorful visitor

2/20/2011

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Last year I went to the place where I was born. Spent time in the house I grew up. This is an island in the Indian Ocean, a thousands of miles away from the US. One evening I had a visitor - One with three colors- brownish-orange, blackish-grey, and white- Okay five colors- She was such a sweet thing- calling and looking at me through the window - My heart went out to her- It was love at first sight- isn’t it all the time anyway.. She reminded me of Micky- the difference was that Micky had a black spot right underneath her nose- and this girl who visited me didn’t -

So I called her, fed her, and within 30 min she was in my arms, cuddling to me purring and making all those satiated noises, clinging to me, and finally ducked her head under my chin and went to sleep. God she smelled wonderful –

How come one of these things all the time finds me when I come home and stay for a few days- I can remember Kikini who strolled from the garden – who also brought me one little black kitten just the way I asked her to do all the time when she was pregnant – and now this 'Micky-like' thing- I wasn’t sure what I should call her but it looked like she was planning to stick around for a while- The problem was that I wasn't going to stay for that long at 'home'.  She went through the house as if she knew every part of it- Jumped out of my window exactly the way Micky would have done- 

Later I found out that she was our neighbor's cat. In my little island, cats and dogs roam around all by themselves all the time- garden to garden - house to house- and no one would stop them. Yep! That is freedom!

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New kid on the block

2/13/2011

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When he first came to me asking whether there will be anything he could work on and help in my research, I had mixed feelings as always. The first few weeks will be teaching and training, which means I will have to spend considerable amount of time, my time that I could spend on working things by myself, on him. But when he can start to work by himself, and IF I trust him to work on experiments, he could come in handy. I have had new students before, some good and some well… not-so-good, who just came in for the money and not to learn something. But I felt something different in this kid. So I thought well, maybe I will give him some work for couple of hours and asked him how much time he has on his hands. He replied ‘I can work full time, all week’ and my mind went “Oh Crap!” I looked at him and couldn’t say NO. Full time was still too much because I already had another student who was working full time. I hope my instincts were right when I agreed to have him as a part-time student worker.

Who am I kidding- I always agreed to take these students not because they will help me but mainly because I knew I am helping them to learn something or earn something.

It has been six months now. I have not regretted my decision.  
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