What is told and heard
Our memories create the filter of prejudice that distorts all that we hear. So what we hear is often not what is said.
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indian mythology
Big, bigger, biggest
The idea of measurement is a key theme in Hindu mythology: three measures of man are not quite the three measures of God.
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Following habits of successful leaders only makes us pretenders.
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Lessons from the ghost
A sorcerer once requested the legendary King Vikramaditya of Ujjain to fetch him a Vetal or ghost that hung upside down, like a bat, from the branches of a tree that stood in the middle of a crematorium.
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Felling the Great Tree
The woodcutters were impressed by the tree’s wisdom. They realized it was the Bodhisattva, the compassionate one, whose stories are compiled in the Jatakas.
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