Written by Dipanshu Mansingka from Hyderabad, India In 1998 I did a 30 day course, about 2 years before that I had done a 20 day course. After that I did not had a chance to do a long course again, rather doing 10 day course itself had not been very regular. Later I realized …
Continue reading Awareness and Equanimity (Anicca/Impermanence)
A second post by Dipanshu Mansingka from Hyderabad, India As a student one is getting 4th rank in the class every time. While studying in the class one day this person gets a thought to come first next time. This desire to come first gives a pleasant sensation and he starts rolling into those thoughts to …
I'm on my psychiatry rotation in medical school, which is mostly concerned with identifying constellations of symptoms of severe mental illness in order to make a diagnosis and prescribe medication. Additionally, here and there, we apply snippets of psychodynamic theory in order to better understand our patients. "Psychodynamic" is the term we use to describe …
Remember when "spiritual, not religious" was one of the options for publicly announcing your religion on Facebook? Or maybe it was MySpace. I always wondered what people meant by that. It seems to imply a Cartesian duality, where some immaterial spirit or soul is something you hold more precious than the bland solid matter encountered …
Only by searching for your own truth can you come to understand what the great religious leaders of the past were trying to tell us. Consider these two images: The differences are striking. Besides being depictions of humans, these two religious icons seem to represent completely different ways of interpreting reality. One seems to endorse …
Continue reading Towards the Sun: The Cross and the Bodhi Tree
What is the one, single, ultimate truth, of which you can be absolutely sure, before anything else? It is your experience in this moment. This experience may not represent external reality completely or at all (à la The Matrix), but this experience is, without a doubt, happening, because you are experiencing it. Note that at its …
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