For as long as I remember, coding has always been an activity that brings an idea that only exists in imagination to reality. As such no imagination exists in isolation – they are all dependent on one or more things I have already seen. My first GUI app mimicked the gold old MS …
Prashanth N Udupa
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When you just watch what’s going on with your seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, thoughting, feeling and your body-mind in general — it becomes very clear that you are not the things you see, the sounds you hear, the smells you smell, the tastes you taste, the objects…
When I started just looking at what’s going on, I first noticed the cyclic nature of all phenomena. Just about everything had a beginning, middle, and end. Whether it was breath, or heartbeat, or thought, or feeling, or a sound, or any other sensation for that matter. It seemed …
As Turiya, what is the purpose of life? The purpose of a body-mind-personality system is easy to define in terms of goals, ambitions, aspirations and so on. But, as Turiya, what really is the purpose of life? The purpose of life is to make space for Karma to express and extingui…
When I take a close look at anything, it seems to dissolve and eventually disappear. Behind everything, there is just emptiness. There is no solid stuff. It’s all empty. I understand that this can be a lot to take all at once. Let’s unpack it gently. What does ’empty’ mean? The …
We live in the age of self-improvement. Therapy, trauma-healing, productivity hacks, and endless self-help advice promise to make us better, happier, more fulfilled versions of ourselves. But have you ever stopped to ask: who or what is actually being improved? Is there really a…
The 1999 blockbuster “The Matrix” unpacked so many complex philosophical ideas in a way that complete non-philosophers could comprehend and munch on them. I clearly notice a fundamental shift in my understanding of reality before and after The Matrix. When I watched it for the f…
Many spiritual traditions say that enlightenment reveals the world as an illusion and lets you see true reality. But what does that really mean? The Mandukya Upanishad describes four states of human experience: waking, dreaming, deep sleep, and a fourth called Turiya. The Four S…
Introduction Recently my older brother stumbled upon a AI documentation generator called DeepWiki, and shared a full documentation of my Scrite project he generated using it. DeepWiki can parse the source code of any project hosted on a public Git repository like GitHub and cons…
On my morning walk in the park today, I had this very surreal knowing that my mind was I was reduced to a mere witness of this whole show. Yet, oddly, it did not feel like a reduction. It felt like the mind was dipping into “me” to construct both the world and the experiencer […]
In our everyday experience, we often think of ourselves as a separate “Self”-a permanent entity that is distinct from everything else in the world, including other people and things. This sense of separation can lead to anxiety, fear, and other forms of suffering. Non-duality of…
Memory is whatever the mind brings up. Hypothetically, the mind can create random images, thoughts, and bodily sensations that feel like memories. Even when the body-mind system is working perfectly, memory is always at the mercy of whatever it pulls up in the moment. It’s possi…
The term māyā is often translated as “illusion”—a powerful force that makes the dualistic world appear real, even though only the non-dual Brahman truly exists. However, I prefer to interpret māyā not as “illusion” but as “disappearance” or “vanishing” (in its street-Kannada sen…
Awareness is always of what has already happened. I become aware of what I see only after the seeing has occurred.I become aware of what I hear only after the hearing has happened.I become aware of what I touch only after the touch has occurred.I become aware of what I taste onl…
When I look at an object, like the cup on the table next to my laptop right now, the visual feel of the object is entirely driven by the physical object itself. In this case, I am not imagining or making up the visual feel of the cup. It looks the way the cup intends […]
I think the purpose of meditation matters a lot. If we are after enlightenment, then its pursuit becomes a craving in itself and that ends up being a hindrance. However, if our intention is to end suffering, then we have a far more practical goal and infact letting go of craving…
Recently at the Aarohi Campus, there was a conversation around “learning by asking questions.” Ratnesh was encouraging learners at Aarohi’s Coversity to ask lot of questions to industry experts in their domain as a way of getting to know the industry. No doubt, asking questions …
Being fit has a whole lot of benefits associated with it. Getting fit, on the other hand may feel like a roller-coaster ride. The process seems to feel less than inspiring. One has to deal with making new year resolutions, only to break it just a couple of weeks later, while sim…
Watching my son and a several other kids at Aarohi Open Learning community, I have come to notice a new kind of learning – which I would like to call as “backward learning.” However, before I can actually get to describing it, I would like to first talk about something else firs…
Highlights: … until, I realise that this is not about swimming at all. It’s about leadership and boy am I impressed! Full Story: In 2019, we buy a year long membership at a newly opened clubhouse near our gated community, primarily to use the swimming pool in it. During the time…
I catch myself thinking and sometimes telling to my 10 year old: “Advay, you are supposed to know this stuff by now already!! ?” It comes up when he makes basic spelling mistakes, or when uses gone instead of went or vice-versa in a sentence, or when he takes too long to multipl…
Sometime in November last year, a few months after I had turned 40, I looked at myself and felt dissatisfied about my health & fitness. I had been dissatisfied for a long time, but it felt like I had reached my threshold by Nov 2021. Nutrition – Lifestyle I signed up for a 3 mon…
My son, and by extension my wife and I, have been exploring the open-learning path. When he was very young and going to a Montessori play school, Nandini would research the various forms of “schooling”. Home Schooling, Unschooling, Road Schooling and so many other forms turned u…
This is the story of how Scrite, the free and open source multilingual screenplay writing app came to be. Sometime in December 2019, I started trying my hand at writing screenplays. For a few months, until the beginning of March 2020, I was writing something almost every single …
14th June 2011 will be an unforgettable day for me. The mid-wife brought our newly born son outside the labour room, wrapped him in a towel and handed him over to me. As I held him for the first time, I looked at his eyes. He was winking at first. But then he looked straight […]
Nandini, Advay and I were guests on a webinar hosted by Aarohi Life Education about #Unschooling and #OpenLearning. We were asked to share our journey of #Unschooling Advay on the Webinar and be available for open Q&A. Preparing for the Webinar, actually being on it and taking q…
Yesterday evening, I was working on something. Advay, my 8 year old came by and without giving a damn about the fact that I was occupied with something, he started telling me something and demanded that I pay attention to him. I was super-pissed. In a angry tone I said – “Please…
My carbon footprint is significant. I have driven bikes/cars that run on petrol for ~24 years now. I use flights almost 6-10 times a year. I have bought clothes knowing that they come covered in plastic. I have bought products off the Internet knowing that they come covered in p…
Omnio Parenting is a group of people (adults and children) dedicated to the exploration of new ways of schooling and learning. Many of the people from this group are also part of Temple Of Excellence, a learning centre in Bengaluru where they explore new ideas in the domain of l…
My wife Nandini and Advay (our 8yo) had been to Mysore recently along with her Tripster Buddies. There were many moments in the whole trip, but one moment clearly stood out. The following is a note from her travel diary. Today, we went for the light and sound show at the palace.…
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