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 …
Category: Personal Experiences
A Deeper Happiness
I was a happy person before being introduced to Vipassana. I learned Vipassana at a tumultuous time in my life. From one perspective Vipassana caused me to fester in my miseries. Difficult memories and emotions would come up and I would simply be sitting with them. These difficult states would linger throughout my day and from …
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 …
Love My Body
I've always pushed my body hard. I interpreted "mind over matter" to mean that I could just ignore my body when it was hurting as long as my mind was strong enough to push on. I constantly pushed my limits and was amazed when I accomplished feats like backpacking 35 miles in one day or …
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. …
Is Competition Wrong?
Competition is vital to our current social structure. Businesses compete for the best employees, schools compete for the best teachers, sports teams for the best records, grocery stores for the best produce, students for the best grades, etc. This idea of limited resources is everywhere in society which leads us to constantly be evaluating and judging people …
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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The Anchor
Life is confusing with many twists and turns. We're bound to encounter great pains and difficulties and these periods of life truly test who we are. There is no greater challenge than dealing with our personal dying process and the dying process of loved ones. In these most emotionally charged and complicated periods, it's nice to know …
Living Vipassana 