Documenting Eruditions
Posted in Going Inwards, Ideas on Feb 6th, 2011
Two years ago, a friend and I were facilitating this free movie session where the lead role was put into an asylum where he actually led some patients back to sanity. After that movie, my friend wrote on the white board, ‘Insanity is just a shift of perception’. At that point of my maturity, of […]
Posted in Going Inwards, Ideas on Feb 5th, 2011
Is there a difference between him going off to play golf or him going off for a date with another woman? Is it any of my business at all when what he does is simply bringing himself to a state of joy, or growth in his own journey? What part can I play except to […]
Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards on Feb 5th, 2011
Seeking approval can be like an addiction. When we can’t get it from someone, we move on to the next and to the next and to the next. A wise teacher will know when to drop you – high and dry, and that period is much like experiencing a withdrawal symptom – lost and jittery; […]
Posted in Going Inwards on Feb 4th, 2011
When the mind is clear, it knows what to do, even during the times when nothing needs to be done. It can sit there and stare into space, or get the butt moving and start to wash the dishes, or even to pick up the dry leaves on the grass. It can go to the […]
Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards, Ideas on Feb 2nd, 2011
Gardening is very much like one’s spiritual journey. Today, I was blessed with the mood to look consciously at my garden and the plants that surround it. Automatically, I noticed some leaves which needed a trim, some stems that needed to be cut off and some leaves that needed to be swept. Because the weather […]
Posted in Going Inwards on Feb 1st, 2011
This term ‘spiritual companionship’ came into the awareness today. And I sat with it for a while. I wondered what it meant, what it truly meant. It sounds as if, there is someone there, who could be of a companion of some sort in the journey, as in one person, like a soul mate or […]
Posted in Going Inwards on Jan 30th, 2011
Last night, while having a discussion about the usage of laptops and computers, a loved one commented that I only used the device to wash my dirty laundry in public, as in journaling about my thoughts in the blog. Hearing that statement which seems to come from her, I couldn’t help but feel a little […]
Posted in Going Inwards on Jan 22nd, 2011
Have you ever experienced, when you day dream about something, laugh about it simply contented in the arising feelings with the day dream and in some way, they manifest into reality? You might disagree as the experience may differ from the details of the day dream, but let’s look at the essence of the day […]
Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards on Jan 20th, 2011
If I can believe that no one out there can hurt me how is it that I am afraid to hurt others unless there is something that I am hiding from hence using that as an excuse not to ‘hurt’ another? Yet, how is it possible whether I hurt another or another is hurt by […]
Posted in Going Inwards on Jan 20th, 2011
The mind is truly an instrument which has a life of its own. Even if you are now able to detach from the mind, it is amazing how it keeps coming back, luring or in fact, sneaking behind to wrap you back into delusion. Now, I am not meaning to say that the mind is […]