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Inspiration: angels, devils, and suicidal ants.

16 Aug ’10 Leave a Comment Written by Juliet Bennett
While in the past I've aspired to balance, I've come to embrace the imbalance, accepting that balance is found in the wholeness of all that exists, and over time - it doesn't have to exist in every moment I experience. The yin and yang - the mixture of cold and hot, of love and fear, of birth and death - provide a fertile ground for new ideas to be seeded and creative potentials to be discovered. I see this dynamic in everything that surrounds me, in the death of stars above, and in the death Read more [...]
Adventure, Truth
India/Nepal, inspire laneway ball photos, Meaning of life, religion, Travel

Lifting the blinds, and curing PISD

31 Jul ’10 Leave a Comment Written by Juliet Bennett
My PISD - my Post-India Stress Disorder - has been cured!!! Well, at least for the most part, for now. This post concludes over a month's worth of writings on re-adjusting to life in Sydney post India's turning my worldview up-side-down experience. I feel more humble - with a clearer understanding just how much I don't know and how much I will probably never know. I realise that while I can make a positive impact on the state of our present and future worlds, there is no one-size-fits-all solution. I Read more [...]
Adventure, Peace
India/Nepal, Travel

Microcosms and macrocosms – we are specks of dust in a giant’s eye

30 Jul ’10 Leave a Comment Written by Juliet Bennett
"India's chaos was bigger than your ego," said Farhad Azad. "You have to remember we are but drops in the ocean." He was right, India's incomprehensibility had put me back in my place. Somewhere along the line I came across this song, it's pretty funny. By Kimya Dawson: I like it. "I am a speck of dust inside a giant's eye" As you can see, over a few rounds of  longneck Himalaya (Nepali beer) on two brief occasions, I learned a lot from Farhad. It's amazing how when you are open to Read more [...]
Adventure, Truth
Fractal, India/Nepal, Meaning of life, religion, Travel

Human rights or a collective future? The problem with definitions.

26 Jul ’10 Leave a Comment Written by Juliet Bennett
If the pursuit of peace is an attempt to rid the world of violence, we must ask ourselves - “violence” through the eyes of who? Defining violence from the perception of a collective-humanity, is very different form defining it from the perception of each individual: - If we define violence from the perception of all-humans-together, then are we not opening the doors for evil dictator, idealistic warfare and other devastating forms of violence to be committed on individuals? - But, if we Read more [...]
Adventure, Peace
Ecology, India/Nepal, Travel

Envisioning the future of humanity-on-earth

16 Jul ’10 Leave a Comment Written by Juliet Bennett
While in a recent entry I concluded that I simply need to accept the world as it is, today I wonder, does this mean accepting the projectory of the world's future? If we have the foresight to see that the present path we are on has the potential to destroy humanity-on-earth, do we have a responsibility to pave a new path? I think yes, we do. I think that what Deepak is saying is that the uncovering of a new path begins with an acceptance of the past - an acceptance of the inequalities exist Read more [...]
Adventure, Peace
India/Nepal, Travel

Capitalistic karma: reinterpreting reincarnation

5 Jul ’10 Leave a Comment Written by Juliet Bennett
Walking up in the mountains outside Kathmandu I contemplated the connection between the world’s inequalities today, the actions of one’s ancestors, and the idea of karma and reincarnation that I had been reading about in some books on the Eastern Religions. Be they the ancestors who split from the group to discover new worlds fifty thousand years ago, or be they the innovators of new technologies that won them last century’s battles, the connection is pretty clear... and I wondered, is this Read more [...]
Adventure, Truth
Big History, capitalism, Ecology, God, India, India/Nepal, karma, reincarnation, religion, Travel

Overnight Change: One day you’re here, the next…

25 Jun ’10 Leave a Comment Written by Juliet Bennett
One day a prime minister, the next you’re not. A captain thrown overboard by his crew. Why? Was he really so bad? Was he leading the ship in a direction they didn’t want to go? Was a pirate about to overtake his ship? Was he working his crew too hard? Or is there some other reason they’re not telling us??? Who knows… What I really want to know is if Rudd is out, does that mean we’re saved from the China-inspired Internet censorship proposal? God I hope so. What is going on at the moment? Read more [...]
Adventure, Peace
India/Nepal, Politics, Travel

Hippies and happiness (Pokhara)

16 Jun ’10 1 Comment Written by Juliet Bennett
We arrived to eat dinner and sip cocktails with a perfect view of this beautiful lake. I had no idea what I was expecting when I left for Pokhara, but I wasn't expecting the quiet little Queenstown-like town it is. Before long, with more new friends, we ventured to the other side of the lake where the Brits had randomlly found a cute little guesthouse with a family, home grown foods and an even greater view of the lake. (Header picture). Had it been any other time of year, this view would Read more [...]
Adventure
India/Nepal, Travel, Yoga

From Bangkok to Bikes, Bollywood and Bongs (Kathmandu)

13 Jun ’10 Leave a Comment Written by Juliet Bennett
On the plane from Sydney to Bangkok, a some three weeks ago now, I met Bipeen - a Nepali who has been living in Australia the last couple of years who was on route to visit his family in Kathmandu. "I'll pick you up at the airport" he wrote me on facebook. Sure enough he did, and his kind and generous family invited me to stay a night and experience typical family life in the Tibetan area of the city. Tibet may be in strife but at least Tibetan culture is everywhere! The view Read more [...]
Adventure
India/Nepal, Travel
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As a "non-indigenous" Australian living on what was once the land of the Cadigal and Wangal Wangal communities, I wish to acknowledge the inter-generational responsibility that I feel toward the colonial past. As a beneficiary of "White Australia", to the Eora people of Sydney, I request your forgiveness. I stand in solidarity with your rightful demands to self determination and active participation in governmental decisions, and I hope I may learn from your eco-spiritual connection. May we, as Tom Trevorrow of the Ngarrindjeri puts it, learn to 'respect, care and share' the gifts that our planet offers us.

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