Dehradun, Nov. 2 -- A journey into the Wonders of Nature and How We are Connected to Everything' by Anubhav Kandpal)

In his Ted Talk on 'The Riddle of Experience versus Memory', Daniel Kahneman makes a pertinent point: We don't choose between experiences; we choose between 'memories of experiences'. And indeed 'our future choices are not about experiences, but anticipated memories' because the experiencing self is different from the remembering self. This brings us to the concept of identity - which is what we decide to give ourselves.

Kandpal suggests that 'there is nothing to fear in letting go of one's identity in order to allow the emergence of a newer, more complex form of being'.

This brings us to the analogy of the painter and t...