A teacher’s role is to share his knowledge and realisations to his student as a means to uplift the willing student and those who come to him to grow, so to welcome them into the journey. A teacher once expressed that in the spiritual journey, there is no hierarchy and is never a linear progress. […]
Tag Archive 'Ideas'
As I begin to become more present to people around me, I observe how past experiences dictate certain patterns in a person (myself included) and how that pattern makes them relate to themselves and to the world. Whilst this pattern only exists in one person, it can somehow affect the people around him and hence […]
Taking that Step
Posted in Attitudes on Nov 1st, 2010
Some months back, I was involved in a rushed project which had no money in it. Well, actually whatever that I do these days has not much financial rewards in it except that it fulfils my soul and brings me much, much joy. When my partner observed how busy and ‘stressed’ I was, he asked […]
So we have been told that “I” am not what you think I am, and also not what I think I am. Who is in fact, the “I”, an “I? “I” began to observe in my journey lately, how truthful the statement (can’t really recall who made that statement though) is that everything that happens […]
Setting a Limit to sit with Emotions – How Long?
Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards on Oct 12th, 2010
Following an experience as cited in my earlier entry Full Frontier, I begun to see that there is indeed no need of a storyline for any feelings to arise but to stay with it. Any storyline that accompanies the feeling usually just intensifies the feelings resulting in either grasping or running away from it. In […]
Impersonally Personal
Posted in Going Inwards, Ideas on Oct 11th, 2010
At a deeper level, if one is able to see that all are but workings of the mind, that we are constantly being pulled by the nose; one has awaken to reality at least for that moment. Everything is mind-related -ideas. It sounds impersonal and yet it can get so personal because we tend to […]
Behind the Façade of an Action
Posted in Going Inwards on Oct 11th, 2010
An action manifested by one can be perceived quite differently by another. For instance, if one offers to be of assistance or support to another, it may come from a space of love and joy unconditionally, that even if the answer to that offer is a ‘no’, no sense of rejection or resentment may be […]
Full Frontier
Posted in Going Inwards, Ideas on Oct 10th, 2010
Last night, was a period of darkness for me after a light hearted meal with loved ones. There was much going on in the mind that it did not stop. I allowed it to run, to see how far it’d go. And soon, I was blessed with ancient feelings of betrayal and abandonment; totally imaginary, […]
What has it got to do with you?
Posted in Ideas on Oct 10th, 2010
What has my loving you, got anything to do with my feelings of being abandoned, being betrayed? What has my loving you, got anything to do with wanting to be with you, to kiss you, hold you, or to the extent of having you make love to me? What has my loving you, got anything […]
The Lover & the Beloved
Posted in Going Inwards, Ideas on Oct 6th, 2010
The Bhagavad Gita tells us that Brahman (God) caused the illusion of separateness. Krishna says, “Divine, indeed, is this My illusion and hard to go beyond” (Chapter VII, verse 14). If the illusion is caused by the One, what is its purpose? The avatar Sathya Sai Baba describes our origin and the need for the […]