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I'm passionate about

Truth, freedom, love and the world.

An idea worth spreading

Finding and living the heart of oneself's life and soul.

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• A reply on Talk: Mina Bissell: Experiments that point to a new understanding of cancer

  Oct 28 2012: There's a lot of stuff that is being taken for granted here.
  
  You don't overpower the gravity when you leave bed, you go your way IN BALANCE with gravity. Absolute balance, you and all your cells. You have special sensors in your body that allow you keep the balance all the time and still live. Plus, all the organs, tissues and movements look for balance the whole organism - water leves, energy leves, nutrient levels, etc. Homeostasis.

• A reply on Talk: David R. Dow: Lessons from death row inmates

  Jul 22 2012: About Prevention, what David is helping us see (and more and more people, thanks to TED) is way better than ending death penalty: it's ending TWO murderers - the criminal and the innocent. I can't think of something better than that. This reminds me of Gandhi's Satyagraha and the will to explore the solutions of a hurting situation with truth and non-violence. Thanks, David.

• A comment on Talk: Jonathan Haidt: Religion, evolution, and the ecstasy of self-transcendence

  Jul 8 2012: E.O.Wilson's work is giving us a lot of new insights, and perhaps help showing who we are and where we may be heading to. But how can a researcher who has never had a self-transcendent experience talk about it, and with such a pretentious authority? How can this researcher not mention any of the Eastern knowledge schools that have studied self-transcendence for millennia? Did he studied those schools? How can he equalize deep eastern scientific knowledge and fanatical western religions? It seems to me that putting everything in the same pack is a hugely irresponsible way of doing what is called "science" - but has nothing to do with it when the method is that flawed.
  
  About self-transcendence per se, I wonder why in Eastern countries a lot of people who had great "staircase" experiences (actually who had the greatest ones), had them alone, or in a monastery, with apparently no great role on the selective group evolution of their people. How does that relate to the survival of their groups? Why did they have those experiences, what did motivate them? And perhaps most importantly, why it wasn't just the experience alone, but how they came back and live differently ever after?
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  A reply on Talk: Graham Hill: Less stuff, more happiness

  Nov 23 2011: "if it disappears, they forget it even existed."
  
  Such a natural freedom (from attachment)... It reminded me of a saying by zen master Joshu Roku that tells something like: "If you hold a phrase, you age quickly".

• A comment on Talk: Stefan Sagmeister: 7 rules for making more happiness

  Jun 10 2011: This is what I was talking about, here in, great talk by Daniel Kahneman:
  http://on.ted.com/9KWF
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  A comment on Talk: Stefan Sagmeister: 7 rules for making more happiness

  Jun 5 2011: I'd like to agree with the gentlemen that said asking people if they're happy is not a valid method to discover real happiness in people. Actually I'd go a bit further and say it's pathetic that we consider such data. It's perhaps only better than asking prisoners if they're guilty.
  
  Then, I guess the pursuit of happiness is a tricky task and goal, to say the least. Sadness is a part of life, we can't avoid it. Life is not an ipod, always responsive to your wishes. In that sense, the pursuit of happiness could actually turn into a drug motivator. Life-acceptance would be more realistic.

• A reply on Talk: Dave Meslin: The antidote to apathy

  May 6 2011: Good pragmatic take. Actually, Dave says at the end that "we can open up city hall. We can reform our electoral systems. We can democratize our public spaces". But those changes seem too big, too structural and too institutional to our hand's reach. Plus, how do I change an advertising made by City Hall? Electing new people? But how can I be sure they will do Nike-like ads? Or, how do I make less Neos and Harry Potters... or change them? "Where do I start?". Are we all going out hacking them to show how we feel and how it could be made?

• A reply on Talk: Caroline Casey: Looking past limits

  Apr 20 2011: I understand the point and I agree to some extent that not everybody will have the energy and determination to go after what it has to be done. But Caroline isn't "gifted" or "lucky", she did something that is brilliant because it isn't "winning" like the "winning" we grew up learning it is.
  
  If she's a winner, it's in a new sense, in that sense that Tao Te King says, where she conquered herself. Not the world, not another one, not a goal. She discovered herself and her place and what she should do.
  
  That's a war everybody has to fight and it's a war in favor of oneself.