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*photograph taken by Joseph Malinga* Have you got to know what is within you That you so eagerly rush to get to know the other Only to find that when the other can no longer fulfil you You run away and drop the other So quickly and cruelly? Are you able to understand what is […]

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I couldn’t sleep last night. It took some deliberation and conscious intent in order to put myself to sleep for at least a good three hours before waking up this morning. There is also an awareness that there is a loss of appetite today and after work, all I did after dropping off some friends […]

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Nevermind if it is a Buddha or Christ incarnation. Have you done your work? Or are you doing your work? Why bother if it is a Buddha or Christ incarnation? How do they serve you when you read some stories? What comes up in the mind or what arises within you? Are you mindful or […]

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Only believing…

It is all innocence, really; only believing what is right and true. So how can another be wrong or stupid, when he or she too is only believing what is true and right for him or her; save when it threatens what is true and right for you?

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Of Choices

at first, there is no choice until there is awareness of a conscious choice; paradoxically, by then, there is no more choice again.

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For such a long time now I could not reconcile How it is so That when we are alone There is much admiration Yet in the midst of company and work Resentment could creep in. And I cannot deny There had been moments of unconsciousness Where there is blame and irritation Either kept in or […]

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Our Innocence

If I am not seeing innocence in you surely is it I who is ignorant since I am the one labelling you as ignorant. Although I may not withhold hang on or defend what I am about to share with you but that does not mean Wisdom is full at this moment which is obviously […]

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Keeping the Beloved

There was a saying that to keep a man’s heart is to tie him through his stomach – that is, a woman needs to be a good cook or at least be able to cook his favourite dishes to keep her man. I remember someone telling me that too but I never got around to […]

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whose poverty?

what the world sees as lost the inner world, rich worry, troubled, loneliness, poverty projecting onto the one whose inner world abundance failing to notice the absence of brooding over the presence of appreciating what is here and now turning around, the shift in perception assuring, comforting, loving, wise yet, does it soothe the poor […]

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Deleting the slate clean Once again Nothing whatsoever left To hold on to Leaving vessel empty and dry And each attempt to build And then to persevere Again Only to be followed swiftly By a final meltdown of destruct Once again Is this what it is? Everything absent Except a call to duty Devotion – […]

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