Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards, Ideas on Jul 19th, 2011
Someone asked me the other day what I thought of people who stays in their jobs for money and yet resents the job they do. I pondered for a moment and answered him, “it’s their choice.” Some people may agree and some may not, and that too, is their choice. Yet as long as they […]
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Posted in Attitudes, Ideas on Jul 18th, 2011
Does a relationship exist because of a marriage? Does a relationship cease because of a divorce? It seems to me that these two things which is apparently constituted and somehow governed by law are just to validate and make a relationship official. If I am fearful when I experience a person leaving me from a […]
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Is it truly ignorance or is it innocence? If we knew any better, would we not have done better? Whether to come again from ancient lifetimes and countless rebirths to learn, to understand, to realise; and then once again to love, and love and love unconditionally, boundlessly, limitlessly at least for one moment… just for […]
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Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards on Jul 17th, 2011
Respect went up a notch for a beloved friend recently. His honesty about his current reality which was a past fear arising once again. Although at the back of the mind already knowing that it is unreal, my reminder did not alter his groundedness. He told me, “G, I cannot lie to myself. Even I […]
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Why are you afraid to lose anything? If you have it, how could you lose it? If you don’t have it, what are you losing? ~ GG ~
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Posted in Attitudes, Ideas, Music/Video on Jul 14th, 2011
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tIYpvlQP_s&feature=related] Prejudice, wrote a song about it. Like to hear it? Here it go. I wear tight clothing, high heeled shoes It doesn’t mean that I’m a prostitute, no, no, no I like rap music, wear hip hop clothes That doesn’t mean that I’m sellin’ dope no, no, no Oh my forgive me for having […]
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Ashin Tejaniya said… Lobha (greed, any kind of craving or liking) is more difficult, more subtle — and moha (delusion, ignorance, not understanding, not seeing reality) is hardest. The point I was making the other day was that we should better not use the word suffering when we talk about dukkha. Most yogis don’t understand […]
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The words used need not matter. Whether it is “I”, “I am”, “God”, “Awareness”, “Awakefulness”, “Wisdom”, “True Self”, “non-self” or whatever that is commonly or uncommonly used in the spiritual context, of an inward journey. It does not change a thing, except create further barriers by language, also culturally distorted by each’s conditioning. Has it […]
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Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards, Poems on Jul 4th, 2011
Isn’t it madness that I have to do something for you or you have to do something for me in order for you to love me or for me to love you. As if if there is nothing done from or for either one of us suddenly Love has gone out of the door *poof* […]
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Posted in Attitudes, Poems on Jun 28th, 2011
If there is no getting away from wanting and not wanting then at least want what is Truth and not want what brings you away from Truth. If there is no getting away from desiring and not desiring then at least desire what brings Freedom and not desire what binds you from Freedom. If there […]
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