Sunday, July 19, 2009
What's Education for Bread, Money or Something MORE?
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Losing the Virginity - HAVE YOU !
You would all be knowing about Richard Branson..if not then here he is... he owned a music recording industry, sold it and went into airlines and now he is venturing into out of the earth flights.. , what are this degrees... well as fars as i know none... barely graduated... but has been Kinghted by queen of England. What is his trademark - as far as I understand, being ready to loose his Virginity... :) , and he has lost it many time... , what kind of virginity i am talking about - its not what you think .. its about doing things which are never done before - its about being courageous enough to try once and its about being ready to loose - everything to gain everything. Can we ever imagine our Tata, Birlas, Ambanis and now Raju's (sorry), Murthys being ready to loose their virginity again and again and again.. i have my own doubts..can we imagine them to even imagine something undobale and do it..... These days there is a new trend among our IT ioncs to write about "India" - as if Nehru and others have not written much...
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Only the Paranoid survives
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
The AntiChrist
The Antichrist is a book in which Nietzsche in around 64 paragraphs try to say why he does not like Christianity - he compares it with Buddhisum and brings out their commanilities as well as differences. If you thought that Nietzsche in this book seems to be against Christ - Then you may be mistaken - as, as I understood - he is against the institution called Christianity - not Christ. Somewhere he has said - that "I know only one Christian and he died on the cross" - or something similar to that.. He also said somewhere that - "I cannot believe in god who cannot dance".
Nietzsche is difficult to read and understand, but if you like such books he is the Author for you.. at least you should try some of his works.....
If anybody wants to read it online follow the link : http://www.swan.ac.uk/german/fns/ac.htm
Monday, May 11, 2009
Everyone should have a Biography
Everyone would have a different understading of life and that is what makes life so colorful, imagine at the end of 10 years if everyone of us would write our biography and passed on to the next generation, it would be the biggest gift we can ever give..
The frog hopes you agree.... so are you starting to write one....
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Three frog, Three ponds and a Book
Part 1: The nature of frog
There lived three frogs in three different ponds very nearby each other. As every frog is - each frog thought he was the king of world (the pond was what was the world accroding to him) . Each frog communicated to one another, but in their own version of world. When night came - moon reflected in the ponds and each frog thought his version of the moon was the original, forgeting that there existed two more moons.
Part 2: The Books
One day the moon got a book, "The Polyster Prince", you know sometimes even moon gets bored, now as the moon read the book, its reflection fell on the three ponds. The books was only one, but the pond changed its relfection and each frog read it but with a differnt meaning.
Part 3: One book =Three meaning
Every body knows the polyester prince is known for wealth, wisdom, words, wars and what not.... Frog 1 read the book to know the reciepe to get rich just as the prince did, but he hardly knew that water does not fall from weather reports. One needs to get out of the house to get wet. . Frog 2 just disliked the reflection of the book - the prince never attracted him, may be water of the lake was too much distrubed to get a clear relfection of the book... too much filled with ripples of past stones thrown by mischievieous boys of the society. Frog 3 - read the book to know whether it is worth becoming a prince or it would be nice to be a frog forever. For him the book was not a reciepe for riches, but may be a light house either showing the way or warning rocky shores.
Part 4: The end
While all this play was going on, its started raining and the downpour made the three ponds one... , and it was at this time that the frogs came to know that - there is only one moon, one reflection, one pond and one book.
So, which frog are you 1, 2 or 3..... to know you can see you reflection of the book.... do email at bookizen@gmail.com
Disclaimer : During writing of this incident, no frog was hurt.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
The First Fifty
1. Talks with students, Varanasi 1954 – J. Krishnamurti
2. The Second Penguin Krishnamurti Reader
3. Zen in the Art of Archery – Eugen Herrigel
4. Hot, Flat, and Crowded – Thomas L. Friedman
5. How to get Rich – Felix Dennis
6. The 80/20 Principle – Richard Koch (Ring Binded)
7. The Mckinsey Way – Ethan M. Rasiel (Ring Binded)
8. The Undercover Economist – Tim Harford (Rind Binded)
9. The Days are Just Packed : A Calvin and Hobbes Collection – Bill Watterson
10. The Fourth Way – P. D. Ouspensky (Spiral Binded)
11. Talks with Sir Raman Maharshi Volume 1.
12. Building and Running a Successful Research Business – Marry Ellen Bates
13. The Mind Map Book – Barry Buzan
14. Small Wind Systems for Battery Charging – By Simon Dunnett
15. Engineering analysis with Ansys Software – T. Stolarski, Y. Nakasone, S. Yoshimoto
16. Active Solar Heating System Design Manual
17. The People’s Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century – Steven Watts
18. The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying - Sogyal Rinpoche
19. Vedanta: Voice of Freedom – Swami Vivekananda
20. Holy Blood Holy Grail – Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, Henry Lincoln
21. The Essence of the Bhagavad Gita – Swami Kriyananda
22. Above all Don’t Wobble – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
23. The Bhadvad Gita : The Royal Science of Self – Realizations – Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda (Vol 1 and Vol 2)
24. Mejda: The family and the early life of Sri Sri Paramhansa Yogananda – Sri Sananda Lal Gosh
25. Commentaries on Living Third Series – J. Krishnamurti
26. The Search : Talks on the Ten Bulls of Zen – Osho
27. The Path: The Autobiography of a Western Yogi – Swami Kriyananda
28. The Book of Books Vol IV – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
29. Losing my Virginity: Richard Barnson – The Autobiography
30. Flight of Alone to Alone – Osho
31. Rinzan: Master of the Irrational – Osho Rajneesh
32. The Art of Living: Vipassana Meditation – William Hart
33. The Life of Swami Vivekananda – By his eastern and western disciples (Vol 1 & 2)
34. Talks with Swami Vivekananda
35. Kriya Yoga: Its mystery and Performing art – Swami Sadhanananda Giri
36. Sri Aurobindo for all the Ages – Nirodbaran
37. The Holy Science – Swami Sri Yukteswar
38. The mind of Ramana Maharshi – Arthur Osborne
39. The revolution from within – J. Krishnamurti
40. When the Shoe Fits – Osho
41. The perfect way – Osho
42. Meditation and its methods – Swami Vivekananda
43. Discourses on Satipatthana Sutta – S. N. Goenka
44. Commentaries on Living – J. krishnamurti
45. Meditation on Swami Vivekananda – Swami Tathagatananda
46. The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
47. Zen and the Art of Enlightenment – Osho
48. The book of Women – Osho
49. Essays in Zen Buddhism – Daisets Teitaro Suzuki
50. Journey to Self Realization – Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda
51. Man’s Eternal Quest – Sri Sir Paramahansa Yogananda
52. Zen, Zest Zip Zap and Zing - Osho