Documenting Eruditions
Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards, Ideas on Nov 25th, 2011
*published in The New York Times, July 31, 2009* LET’S say you have what you believe to be a healthy marriage. You’re still friends and lovers after spending more than half of your lives together. The dreams you set out to achieve in your 20s — gazing into each other’s eyes in candlelit city bistros […]
I can never influence another. Not consciously, anyway. For by my conscious influencing, is to convince another my way is best and that itself is a form of attack which will inevitably lead to a defence from the other party which is also reflecting my own defence of my own ideas of what is true […]
Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards, Music/Video on Nov 20th, 2011
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftjEcrrf7r0] performed by U2 (Anton Corbjin Version) Is it getting better? Or do you feel the same? Will it make it easier on you now? You got someone to blame You say One love One life When it’s one need In the night One love We get to share it Leaves you baby if you […]
Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards on Nov 10th, 2011
Often, there are articles written about the attack and defence patterns in communication and also the importance of openness in our communication with others; but seldom, about the purpose of communication. We are born with a voice, a voice uniquely our own to express verbally what is in the mind or heart to oneself, another […]
Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards, Ideas, Poems on Nov 9th, 2011
You tell me Love is what I am And all I need to do Is to undo the blocks to Love’s awareness. If that is the case Why do I need to learn How to love myself Or even attempt on How to love myself? Is it not true That if Love is what I […]
Posted in Being the Master, Going Inwards, Ideas, Poems on Nov 8th, 2011
*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 […]
Posted in Attitudes, Being the Master, Going Inwards, Ideas on Nov 6th, 2011
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 […]
Posted in Attitudes, Being the Master, Going Inwards, Ideas on Nov 4th, 2011
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 […]
Posted in Going Inwards, Ideas on Nov 4th, 2011
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?
Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards, Poems, Unreasonable on Nov 4th, 2011
Do I need to tell you some more that I See You I Love You I Care for You when already I am seeing you I am loving you I am caring for you all at the same time save for an expression? making words of I See You I Love You I Care for […]