'Environment- Inner and Outer'

‘Environment- Inner and Outer’ talks began Environmental Day 2022 as an annual meet to explore the dimensions within and outside of us and their correlation with each other.

This year the talks that started on 5 June are planned to continue as bi-monthly meets revolving around selected books as an anchor.

These talks will be in connection to ‘Dimensions of Water’ and ‘Breath’ a series of Dialogues starting October.2023.

Huge Thanks to Phil Nyman and Seth Feldman for sharing their insights on various books and related topics. It helped as a backdrop in creating the Conscious Designing project.

Does outer environment affect the inner? Does inner conditions alter the outer? Join our discussions. These meets are casual and friendly. Write to us if interested in joining.

Updates: below are pictures and audios of some topics we have covered.

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Story writing, Breath conversations

Seth Feldman shares his Story writing (story and experiences)

Breath conversations continued.

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Reviews on book by Marcel Proust

Seth Shares his experience on Marcel Proust writings.

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Intro to ‘Breath’ book and Music Designing

Phil Nyman shares his notes on the book, ‘Breath’ by Nestor James.

Seth Feldman talks about his experiments with Musical notes in connection to Creative Designing process. (Please excuse the audio connection during music play)

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Water, Thales, Webb telescope

Fall Series on ‘Water’ starts from Oct, 2023

First of the Fall Series , this meet on 1 October revolved around ‘Dimensions of Water’.

Phil Nyman introduced the ancient philosopher, Thales of Miletus,’ and his thoughts on Water

Seth Feldman shared valuable info on images form Webb Space telescope.

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Zen Mind Beginer’s Mind

Reference Book started in September 2023- ‘‘Zen Mind Beginer’s Mind’’ by Shunryu Suzuki.

Discussion lead by Seth Feldman,, accompanied by Phil and Kd.

Part-I

Topics:

Posture
Breathing
Control

Part !, Meet-2

Topics

Mind Waves
Mind Weeds
The Marrow of Zen

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Stoicism- Marcus Aurelius

This meet on Environment Day- June 2023, marks the start of Environment- Inner n Outer talks These are aimed to explore the dynamics of inner and outer states of our being.

Phil Nyman shares his thoughts and insights on Stoic fundamentals with reference to the book- ‘Meditations’ by - Marcus Aurelius.

Adding to the discussion were- Seth Feldman, Ms Chong Hwey Fee and Kuldeepa