Yours Transcendentally, with Raj
by Rajdeep Ta
This podcast is the consequence of my pensive soliloquy, an unrelenting barrage of diverse perspectives, all competing for the same mindscape. My own opinions amalgamated with unquoted book excerpts, online articles, newsletters et al. Work Calm Relationships Sociability Self-knowledgeIf you like what you listen, please leave behind a voice message feedback, FOLLOW the podcast and SHARE it with as many peeps as possible.Instagram: yours_platonicallyFB: Rajdeep TaI hope listening to my work makes you secure serenity, understand yourself better and lead a more meaningful life.
Episodes
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Why it needn't 'last forever' ?
It’s isn’t a criterion we are foolish enough apply to any other area of our lives. If we enjoy a book, we don’t expect that we’ll have to keep reading it ad infinitum. If we enjoy a joke, we don’t think we should be made to hear it again and again. We may dearly love a job, but we don’t for that...
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Dangers of Oversharing
We hear so much about the difficulties caused by those who cannot be intimate, who seem incapable of disclosing anything of what they genuinely feel, it can take time to register the opposite but no less grave problem: those who cannot keep enough of themselves to themselves, those whose hunger…
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Time Heals Everything (almost)
The proverb ‘Time Heals Everything’ has been very much embraced by society. The thinking behind it is that over time all wounds gradually become less painful. Eventually, if the wound is not as severe — or your life has been rather adventurous — you will be able to think about the tragic or...
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Still waiting to say 'I Love You' ?
One of the great intellectual puzzles that daily life forces all of us to consider on a slightly too regular basis is: ‘Why are other people so awful? How come they are so unreliable, aggressive, deceitful, mean, two-faced or cowardly?’ As we search for answers, we tend quite naturally to fall…
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The Adult inside Us
**2022 New Year's 1st Episode - recorded from Aegina Island, Greece** "It’s natural to think of ourselves as a single person. We have – after all – only one body and answer to only one name. But inside our minds, we are in truth far more like an assemblage of voices or – as we might put it at its...
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Laying down Boundaries
***Recorded live from Berlin, Germany*** "Laying down a boundary involves informing those around us – colleagues, parents, children, lovers – of a given set of objectively reasonable things that we are going to require in order to feel respected and happy, while doing so in a way that conveys...
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When Home isn't home anymore...
**Recorded live from Rome, Italy** "One of the most beautiful and evocative of all words is ‘home’. Folded within it are suggestions of safety, understanding, sympathy, warmth and belonging. But, at points, to our dawning horror, we may be forced to take on board a hugely disorienting conclusion:...
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Can People Change?
"We ask, typically and acutely, when we’re in a relationship with someone who is inflicting a great deal of pain on us: someone who is refusing to open their hearts or can never stop lying, someone who is aggressive or detached, someone who is harming themselves or managing to devastate us. We…
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Should we try to Control our Future?
"The temptation, when we are worried, is to direct our determined intelligence to trying fully to anticipate whatever may be coming for us down the line. We try to strip the unknown of its surprises; we seek, quite understandably, to nothing less than control the future. Our minds, however...
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Dangers of having NOTHING to do anymore
"For most of our lives, we’re hard at work: we’re up till midnight in the library studying for a degree, we’re learning a trade, building a business, writing a book. We have hardly a moment to ourselves. We don’t even ask whether we are fulfilled, it’s simply obvious that this is the bit that has...
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Kindness: Need & Necessity
**EASTER Special** "As we grow up, we get better at the superficial mechanics of kindness – but not necessarily better at understanding why kindness should matter as it does. The subject remains under some of the strict or sentimental cloud beneath which it was first introduced to us as small...
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Trauma & Pusillanimity
"Some of the reason why we are far more fearful, inhibited and sad than we should be is that we are – unbeknownst to ourselves – wandering through our lives with a huge burden of unresolved and unobserved trauma... A trauma is not merely a terrible event, though it is very much that too. It is a...
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Why do I feel so Lonely?
***Happy International Women's Day*** "Modernity is surely a lonelier place than the world that preceded it. It isn’t ultimately technology (cities, cars or screens) that have made us lonely; it’s an identifiable set of ideas. Being on one’s own doesn’t have to be problematic, demeaning or say...
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Why Couples BREAK UP ?
***BREAK UP DAY Special*** "When people try to account for why couples break up, the emphasis typically falls on the idea of difference: a disorganized creative type was up against a highly managerial ordered one; one of them liked hill walking, the other hated the outdoors. Someone was…
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What is Mental Health ?
"So efficient and hushed are our brains in their day to day operations, we are apt to miss what an extraordinary and complicated achievement it is to feel mentally well. A mind in a healthy state is, in the background, continually performing a near-miraculous set of manoeuvres that underpin our...
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Should We Play It Cool When We Like Someone?
**Valentine's Day special** "One of the paradoxes of the dating game is that we know that by coming across as enthusiastic at an early stage – if we ring them the next day, if we are open about how attractive we find them, if we suggest meeting them again very soon – we are putting ourselves at a...
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In Praise of Unrequited Love
**Valentine's Day special** "At any point, millions of love stories are quietly being spun by one person while the object of their adoration goes about their business blithely unconcerned. Someone watches someone else on a train, casts surreptitious glances at a delegate at a conference…
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Crushes: Charm & Madness
**Valentine's Day special** "Crushes: they happen to some people often and to almost everyone sometimes. Airports, trains, streets, conferences – the dynamics of modern life are forever throwing us into fleeting contact with strangers, from amongst whom we pick out a few examples who seem to us…
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Why Only the Happy Single Find True Love
**Valentine's Day special** One of the most important principles for choosing a lover sensibly is not to feel in any hurry to make a choice. Being satisfied with being single is a precondition of satisfactory coupledom. We cannot choose wisely when remaining single feels unbearable. We have to be...
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2 Reasons why we might still be single
**Valentine's Day special** "The common-sense explanation for long-term singlehood directs the blame firmly outwards, it isolates the problem to one of mechanics: one is still single because one hasn’t, perhaps on account of having moved to a vast and anonymous new city, been invited to enough...
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What is Love ?
**Valentine's Day special** "One way to get a sense of why love should matter so much, why it might be considered close to the meaning of life, is to look at the challenges of loneliness. Too often, we leave the topic of loneliness unmentioned: those without anyone to hold feel shame; those with...
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What they forget to teach you at school - (Pilot episode)
"The modern world treats education with unique seriousness. Never in the history of humanity have so much thought and so many resources been devoted to the development of the minds of the next generation. In all advanced nations, until a human is 21 or so, there is little else to do other than...
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Introduce myself, Allow me to
Yoda, much ? Welcome to my first -and as of now only-podcast, “Yours Transcendentally” by the one and not only- *drumroll noises*- RAJ ! A bit of irrelevant background info- My name is Rajdeep and I am a native of India, but currently residing in Budapest, Hungary. I’d like to call myself a...
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This podcast is the consequence of my pensive soliloquy, an unrelenting barrage of diverse perspectives, all competing for the same mindscape. My own opinions amalgamated with unquoted book excerpts, online articles, newsletters et al. Work Calm Relationships Sociability Self-knowledgeIf you like what you listen, please leave behind a voice message feedback, FOLLOW the podcast and SHARE it with as many peeps as possible.Instagram: yours_platonicallyFB: Rajdeep TaI hope listening to my work makes you secure serenity, understand yourself better and lead a more meaningful life.
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