The ingenious film that is ‘Inception’ begins with the assumption that it is possible for multiple persons to enter someone’s dream, that can even be designed without that person knowing, thus digging out deep secrets from his sub-consciousness, or even implanting ideas which eventually shape one’s decisions. Thank goodness this doesn’t seem technologically viable at [...]
Dharma@Cinema: The ‘Inception’ of Illusion or Reality?
By shian under Movies/TV |
10 Comments | Tags: Anicca, death, delusion, dream, illusion, mantra, meditation, perception, reality, Samsara
Your Dream is Over… or Has it Just Begun?
By shian under Music |
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This is one of the most soothing songs I’d ever heard, that is gentle while singing of strength. I read that it was ‘written to sooth a young child who had had a bad dream about being all alone and lost’. Many sought solace in it as it seems to sing about loss of a [...]
Face Your Past for a Better Future
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Haunted by ‘Ghosts of Girlfriends Past’
‘Ghosts of Girlfriends Past’ is about a fickle guy, who is so scrooge-ly with his love, that he doesn’t really develop genuine affection for anyone, while he plays ‘love’ as a game. That’s right, Conner’s a playboy, and that’s wrong! So much faith does he have that romances are best [...]
Lucid Living While Lucid Dreaming
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In the plot of the movie ‘Ploy’, the characters seem to live their interconnected dreams as alternate but believable realities, before they wake up to actual reality – albeit not that realised in enlightenment, but the usual samsaric reality. The dreams experienced are not portrayed to be technologically fantastical in the Matrix style, but are [...]
Adventures : Zeph Tales (23)
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2 Comments | Tags: belief, delusion, dream, evil, fear, mind, mystery, myth, prophesy, truth, will
The Myth of Pointing at the Moon?
A strange urban legend(?) of no specific origin has it that if one points at the full moon, one will wake up the next day with a fine cut behind a ear. Though a small cut, one feels the stinging pain from it for a while. This article explores [...]
















