Asceticism – Read Poems aka Dinosaurs – Poems by Ronie Dinosaur

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 119 – Five Monasteries

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 119 - Five Monasteries I am the lighthouse that doesn’t care
if ships pass blind through salted air-
as long as the filament stays fair,
burning on, beyond repair.
The trouble has always been this plight: Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 118 – Neither Nor

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 118 – Neither Nor Neither submission nor aggression.
A woman who neither kneels nor strikes.
For the philosopher-athlete forged in one scarred body,
a companion who meets affection and responsibility in equal measure-
no reflex to drag him under, Read more from here...

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Punishment

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: abandonment, academic exile, Alienation, anger identity, Asceticism, austerity, burnout, chair motif, class pressure, depression, dignity hunger, discipline as violence, emotional poverty, emotional repression, endurance, existential reckoning, failure, grief, heat and cold imagery, identity fracture, Indian context, internal exile, intimacy avoidance, ledger metaphor, loss, love and flight, masculine shame, masculine-vulnerability, memory loops, moral accounting, nihilism, non-linear narrative, persistence, Psychological realism, rejection, restraint, self-punishment, self-sabotage, solitude, substance abuse, survival ethics, time distortion, trauma repetition, unfinished reckoning, unrealized potential, unrequited-love, witnessless suffering, working-class survival.

I returned home without a degree.
Detained for attendance shortages—the rules were never clearly explained.
I lost my best friend to another lecture hall,
and my obligation to become an engineer to another timeline.
Earlier still, I lost my worth as the studious boy
when a schoolgirl rejected me for someone “different.” Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 111 – Extreme Sports

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Anti-consumerism, Asceticism, authenticity, character, closure, Contemporary India, darkness, dignity, discipline, Divine union, Exile, Extreme Sports, Famine of the heart, finality, first-order truth, Heroism, honor, Human needs, identity, Integrity, Isolation, legend, loneliness, masculinity, Modern monk, Moving on, mythic, philosophical-fiction, Psychological study, Ram and Sita, raw truth, resilience, Roaring, Ronie Dinosaur, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 111, Sacrifice, Self-Reliance, Shiva and Parvati, silence, Social commentary, soul, Spiritual hunger, stoicism, survival, The dinosaur., The mirror, The path, Transcendence, truth seeking, Unbowed, Walking.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 111 - Extreme Sports When even character cannot clear the path,
the spirit directs.
Better the slow famine of the upright heart
than the quick feast of a bent knee.
Let others gorge on counterfeit warmth; Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 80 – Private Law

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: accountability, Agency, Asceticism, austerity, authority, Autonomy, awareness, character, Coherence, consciousness, Courage, depth, discipline, embodiment, endurance, Ethics, existence, Existentialism, individuality, Integrity, Isolation, law, lawfulness, lucidity, motion, necessity, nihilism, nonconformity, obligation, originality, persistence, philosophy, pilgrimage, Private Law, realism, Refusal, Resistance, resolve, responsibility, rigor, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 80, Selfhood, selfrule, seriousness, severity, solitude, stoicism, survival, Walking.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 80 - Private Law He walks because the sentence is life-
no appeal, no parole, no applause.
Flesh drags heavy,
the horizon burned out long ago,
yet the stride refuses surrender. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 79 – Why Live?

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: accountability, Agency, Asceticism, austerity, Autonomy, awareness, character, clarity, cognition, consciousness, discipline, Effort, embodiment, endurance, Ethics, existence, Existentialism, Integrity, Isolation, lucidity, Meaninglessness, minimalism, motion, necessity, nihilism, obligation, persistence, philosophy, realism, Refusal, repetition, resilience, resolve, responsibility, restraint, rigor, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 79, selfexamination, Selfhood, severity, silence, solitude, stoicism, structure, survival, Walking, Why Live, wisdom, work.

Ronie Dinosaur — Before the Walk: An Opening Statement

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 79 - Why Live? Bring it yourself,
Cook it yourself,
Eat it yourself,
Then praise it yourself,
Wash up and go to sleep. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 75 – Sync

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: acceptance, accountability, Agency, alignment, Asceticism, authenticity, character, closure, continuance, discipline, emptiness, existence, finality, impermanence, Integrity, legacy, limits, philosophy, responsibility, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 75, solitude, stance, Sync, Synchronization, truth, Walking, withdrawal.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 75 - Sync Thought and action must synchronize.
Aggressive asceticism fused with a philosophical mind-
not to justify desire,
but to meet it with unyielding character.
The blame is mine. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 72 – Psychology to Philosophy

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Agency, Asceticism, balance, character, clarity, commitment, comparison, consciousness, Detachment, discipline, Ethics, identity, Integrity, intent, morality, Observation, philosophy, psychology, Psychology to Philosophy, realism, resolve, restraint, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 72, selfknowledge, shadow, solitude, truth.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 72 – Psychology to Philosophy
An uncompromising character
and a clean heart-
an intent that is neither good nor bad.
It arises from desire
and waits to become action. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 51 – Abnormally Extreme Performance Disorder

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Abnormally Extreme Performance Disorder, addiction-recovery, Alienation, Asceticism, austerity, Autonomy, character, embodiment, endurance, exploitation, extreme-discipline, family-dynamics, Integrity, Isolation, lived-truth, moral-hypocrisy, performance, rehabilitation, resilience, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 51, Sacrifice, self-sovereignty, silence, solitude, suffering, survival, work-ethic.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 51 - Abnormally Extreme Performance Disorder At thirty, my bank balance matched
those overseas engineers-
yet not one rupee spent
to birth or feed the business.
From home I built it: Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 48 – Physical Exercise

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: anti-comfort, Asceticism, awareness, bodily-intelligence, clarity, consciousness, discipline, Effort, embodiment, endurance, entropy-control, fatigue, Physical Exercise, pragmatism, realism, Resistance, responsibility, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 48, routine, self-command, self-maintenance, self-regulation, sobriety, survival, vigilance, will.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 48 - Physical Exercise Why, all of a sudden,
am I holding back from an early goodbye,
bracing myself to keep the house from collapsing?
For over two decades I pondered this-
and it was always my consciousness Read more from here...

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