So much is spent on self-help books. More is spent on prescription medications that are meant to treat emotions (?!). And still MORE is spent on lengthy therapeutic sessions with mental health professionals. And yet here, within the body human, lies the greatest and most effective therapist in the -- hmmmmm -- in the...well, in …
Author: Anonymous
If I don’t Need it Throw it out!
As a meditator I just love throwing stuff out! I get much more joy out of organizing disorderly things for some reason. Most of my life I’d felt stressed for time, and I couldn't put my creative thoughts on a schedule. If an insight came to mind in the middle of the night or when …
Knowing the path and walking the path…
Recently I came across a different form of writing – Abstract writing. Some profound, short aphorisms have the power to transform the thinking. Although these parables are short, they are condensed with insights. So, I thought of writing some parables myself. So,here is the first parables in this series of writing. Some of them are …
Oil of Oregano or Vipassana?
The summer cold has hit me! I work at a facility that sees a lot of school groups from around the province. Amazingly, I had managed to completely avoid contracting the various colds and flues that had been making their rounds. Friday was the last day of the school programs and - wouldn't you know …
Opening up to Synchronicity
Now that my school schedule has lightened up, I've started sitting with the local meditators once a week. The site is about an hour away, but well worth the journey! I’m not sure if it’s the presence of other meditators, or listening to the instruction again, but I’m definitely noticing a difference with these sits. …
Feeling grief
How long has it been? Sometimes it seems only last week that my mother died, tho it's been over 18 months. But the ache comes back at times with such intensity that I feel it may never go away. Just this morning I was reduced to tears and sobbing by the simple act of pouring …
Transformation of Faith in my spiritual journey!
In last 2 posts I talked about two different dimensions of faith –one dimension is experienced based or insight based faith and other dimension is assumed (unrecognized) faith. Being born and raised in India, I have experienced another very strange dimension of faith – in India we call it shraddha. Shraddha is universal term so you can …
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They’ll Catch Up
My sister visited this weekend and shared something wonderful with me. She recently completed some professional training (she's a therapist in the counseling field) and was so excited to tell me about "the Merritt thing". Merritt is the name of the town where I did my 10-day course. It turns out that the guy presenting …
Menstrual Awareness
Is it my menstrual cycle or a saṅkhāra? Maybe it doesn't have to be one or the other, maybe both are a seamless part of my purification process… A female friend and I both agreed the our menstrual cycles sometimes took us into mind altering states; along with the negative emotional states and physical pains most …
How do you do it?
Yesterday I got inquiries about Vipassana from an unexpected quarter. My eye doctor’s receptionist/assistant was using a machine to measure various aspects of my eyes. The process requires that I stare at a lighted green cross that moves around in the viewer, while holding my head very still, and this goes on with each eye …
Living Vipassana 