Documenting Eruditions
Posted in Attitudes on Dec 22nd, 2010
Do you realise that whenever someone is opposing us, we are always naturally in resistance? It is like as if it threatens our sense of righteousness, our beingness and most of the time, we either keep quiet from then on, or start to defend ourselves in a nice manner or in a form of an […]
Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards on Dec 18th, 2010
Out of all the senses we experience, it is very strange and interesting that we are most of the time only aware of only one of them. Perhaps we subconsciously know that it is that powerful, and yet we are oblivious or ignorant to its power. Our life is run by our belief systems and […]
Posted in Quotes on Dec 17th, 2010
He, who has pacified mental disturbances, uprooted and removed, will surely attain concentration (samadhi) by day or night. . – Dhammapada, verse 250
Posted in Quotes on Dec 14th, 2010
What could be secret from God’s Will? Yet you believe that you have secrets. What could your secrets be except another will that is your own, apart from His? Reason would tell you that this is no secret that need be hidden as sin. But a mistake indeed! Let not your fear of sin protect […]
My partner once shared with me a story told by our common teacher. One day a man went up to see God. After seeing God, on the way back he bumped into a very wise man. The wise man knew that he went to see God and asked him what God was doing and when […]
The mind is the same anywhere, everywhere. No matter how we try to twist it, twig it, it is the same with everyone. But, how each individual addresses the mind creates his or her reality or rather, relationship with the mind. And it boils down to ideas, perceptions and being able to relate to the […]
Posted in Ideas on Aug 19th, 2010
The other day I was inspired to write an entry on Zombies. But today, having sung the song ‘Zombie’ and ‘The Barbie Girl’ at karaoke, I felt that they were of no difference, except that Barbies and Kens were much prettier images to look at, compared to Zombies. Zombies, Barbies & Kens – what are […]
Posted in Excerpts from Books on Jul 16th, 2010
Begin to see how much you try to change others to fit your image of how you think they should be. Be aware of how others try to change you. Feel the push and the pull. That is the world of the ego. Ego is the most insecure thing in the universe. That is why […]
Posted in Going Inwards on Jun 21st, 2010
I am most amazed by this mind. Counting the days and tirelessly listing down the cravings of food during the past 16-day rice & water fast, what I had thought would be a blissful feast on the 16th day at the time of break-fast, turned out to be a no-big-deal experience. As I walked along […]
Posted in Ideas on Jun 7th, 2010
Labels onto certain persons in our lives put these people up on the pedestal. A dad, a mom, a teacher, a BFF (best friend forever), a lover or whatever; because of the preconceived concepts or ideas of these roles by society which our mind had inevitably took it for real without questioning, limitations arises from […]