Posted in Going Inwards on Apr 26th, 2011
Have you ever experienced before when you approach someone to address a discomfort within you, or to resolve a situation and what you get in return is a whole bucket of evidences and facts thrown at your face of how you were the one who had done and said all things wrong without you even […]
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Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards on Apr 25th, 2011
“Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.” – Buddha – It is interesting to observe life lessons which are easily transcended by one, may not be the same for another. I remember this tale of an acquaintance who progressed in the spiritual […]
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Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards, Ideas on Apr 24th, 2011
The other day as I was sharing some stories that I was experiencing in my space with a friend, she asked me why the need to create experiences such as the ones I shared with her for myself as in, what’s in it for me. I pondered a moment upon her questioning and it dawned […]
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Many people think that meditation belongs to the part of being spiritual. Many people also think that meditation is sitting down, crossed legged, with eyes closed. But that all, is only defining meditation in its own limiting concept. If one could begin to question and experience what meditation is like, without the limiting ideas of what has […]
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Wisdom in its simplest essence, is derived from experience analysed, knowledge gained, intuitive thought, introspective comtemplataion, intellectual enquiry , genuine inquiry,* and exhaustive persistence driven by a burning desire, guided by a force within. *added by GG ~ Excerpts from In the Sphere of Silence by Vijay Eswaran ~
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Posted in Going Inwards, Poems on Apr 19th, 2011
the illusion of love and all its other concepts fed by stories told heard and seen a seeming fairytale born how matter is spared sweet incidents planned or impromptu each moving to the sound of heartbeat go forth or stay still perhaps to step back – safer each consequence telling a story the vision of […]
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Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards on Apr 19th, 2011
Yesterday, a participant shared with me that I was the first person that she had ever encountered to be able to see the workings of the mind without the practice of a formal sitting meditation, and she has come to see that there are many others like that too. It was a very interesting topic […]
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I hate to contradict one of your favourite slogans, but “expecting a miracle” is not always helpful. Sometimes you think you need a miracle, but all you need is a little common sense. Sometimes, you are certain you need a miracle, but all you need to do is walk through your fear. I’m not trying […]
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The mind is pretty immature in itself, always wanting to lure its head towards anything to fulfil itself, forgetting that what it has right here, right now is perfect. It is always contacting something outside of itself through a thought, when believed to be real and thus as if permission is granted, goes forth scheming, […]
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Posted in Going Inwards, Poems on Apr 7th, 2011
Dreaming To be awaken Awaken In the dream Still Awaken once more From a dream Yet Still in a dream To be awaken From another dream In another dream Awaken From the dream In the dream Of the dream Still dreaming To be awaken Fully Once more All over again Until Finally Awaken. Phew! What […]
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