Tonight I sat in a café facing a window. The lights inside rendered it near impossible to see out. I could only see a reflection on the window of myself and, more interestingly, a couple sitting at the table behind me. Though they sat across from each other, they did not look at each other. …
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Hey! It’s a whole new world inside my mouth
I am quite a foodie. If there are only few things I feel quite attached with, the taste of my daily oral intakes, must be one of them. Until few months ago the joy I used to derive from those gastronomic adventures through the by lanes of my old city could only be compared with …
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The importance of sticking to one practice
During many years I loved eclecticism. And I still do enjoy switching from one type of exercise to another. It is not unusual for me to exercise with weights for half an hour and then do one hour of yoga. I really believe I benefit a lot from combining different practices, even alternating the order …
What could be best ‘ Gurudakshina’ for Guru ji?
“ What could be the best Gurudakshina to Guru like S.N. Goeka ji?” that was one of the questions I thought when I had completed my first Vipassana meditation course at Dhammagiri, Igatpuri. Now, when Guruji is no more with us, this questions become more relevant - How I can do my bit for the …
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The Dhamma Shed
Maintaining daily practice is hard. Finding others in the area you live to practice with helps. I count myself as lucky to have found a group of meditators in my area who gave me inspiration and a place to sit with others. Among them is Colin who I consider to be a major reason why Vipassana meditation …
Full Plate of Yes
Lately I’ve been standing under a waterfall of synchronicities with arms outspread, palms upturned, head thrown back, and mouth agape. The grace that has fallen around, on, over, and under me has steeply increased my responsibility load and intensified the tightness of my already rigid schedule. But. I don’t feel drained or strained or likely …
That little girl i used to know long back
Once upon a time there was this little girl who lived inside me. The child had a considerably lonely childhood with all those childhood insecurities and she used to face them alone. But she was at peace in her own mental space, an isolated though bit obscure one. She did not look for comfort zone in …
Meditating alone and with others
Meditating by yourself is really different from meditating in a room with other people. When you are alone, there’s nobody else to distract you, no coughing no abrupt movements, no heavy breathings, nobody falling asleep and (ugh) snoring. You are on your own and by yourself one hundred per cent. That feeling is certainly very …
One Breath – One Life
When we are agitated we are told to start with Anapana. Thoughts, feelings and ideas come to us rapidly, almost freefalling. How to stop them? We just need to relax and let them follow their own course. We focus on the incoming breathing and the outgoing breathing. Breathing in. Breathing out. In a few minutes, …
Can we influence people to start practicing meditation?
Some days back Ryan talked about Dhamma job – an idea about integrating meditation into our daily lives and involving more and more people in meditation practice so that they can benefit from the same. I tried to delve on – How we can connect more and more people with Vipassana meditation? I tried to …
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Living Vipassana 