There are tunes that stay in our minds for a long time. It was Leonard Cohen’s: ‘Waiting for the Miracle to Come’ that stayed with me for days….Music can make us happy or sad, can bring peace, tranquility or relaxation or can even protect our mind from negative influences. During my bad times I came …
Continue reading Music and Healing. Or Waiting for the Miracle…
“Be soft with your practice. Think of method as a fine silvery stream, not a raging waterfall. It'll go meandering here, and trickling there. It'll find the grooves, the cracks, and the crevices. Just follow it, never let it out of your sight, and it will take you.” - Shen Yen If the bull went for …
My nani (maternal grandmother) passed away around this time last week, i.e. Thursday, September 18th afternoon, however we did not take her off life-support until 24 hours after, which only gave the illusion of her still being there. It was a collective decision to wait until other family members arrived so that her last breath …
It landed on my soul’s sunlit altar like a singing telegram, a complete and precise little package of wisdom: “It’s okay to stop looking.” I instantly felt lighter. It was easier to breathe. Last Saturday I bought a round trip bus ticket to NYC, leaving in my bank account fewer bucks than could possibly string …
Continuing to talk about 'Blast from the Past' from my last post, here's one I wrote way back in Novemeber'2008 just after my first Vipassna experience. Original post is here via Nomadic Monologue. Blissful and High Its sheer bliss, truly! Picture this: 3000 meters above sea level, 0-5 degC, amidst tall pine trees, monks and …
The Himalayas are often connected with saints and sanyasis who spend their life in meditation. I see the Himalayas as a symbol of immense beauty, vast silence and the never ending inner struggle for overcoming our own personal boundaries. This year I sat a 10-day Vipassana course in a small meditation centre in Pokhara, Nepal. …
Continue reading The Gate to Interior Castle. My Walking and Meditation in Pokhara.
I believe in being a loving person. In cultivating my capacity for unconditional love and living each day with the primary goal of being loving and compassionate in every action, in every word, thought, and moment. For most of my life, I believed the end game was ‘doing one’s best’ and working to achieve a …
“Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit …
If it’s true that a lesson will keep returning in various forms till we've learned it, there must be something big jealousy has yet to teach me, because I’ve had serious spells of it at least once a year for the last five. By serious spells I mean crying daily, sucking on crisis cigarettes, and …
This is a special year and the day this post goes online, I celebrate my 40th birthday. I have so much going on as I reach this milestone of a year. It makes me quite humble at the thought of rounding the Sun forty times already 🙂 I am happy to realise that I am …
Continue reading Going around the Sun and the sunny connections!
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