We can choose to think that nothing will go wrong. Or we can choose to learn that when things are painful, we are meant to look at how pain and distress hasten us along the path to setting our sights upon immense magnitude. What does this mean? It means that in approaching immensity of an …
Death doesn’t have to bring things to an end. That we each have to tread a solitary path to beginnings or endings does. We mistakenly believe that there is certainty, that our bodies and minds herald and sustain what is beyond doubt. That reality is as it seems. Such is the pull of form and …
We go about our lives doing this and that. Seldom do we pause to consider that every thing we do, mental or physical sets up reliance on what is supposedly certain or mostly on what is supposedly good. This reliance embeds our dependency on body and mind. Why is this detrimental? Because, through our body …
Our usual way of thinking belies a basic flaw. That we are flesh and bone is undeniable. However, our considerations are a graver concern. When we equate what we are thinking, feeling and sensing with how we think we are, we compound our fixedness. The body as substrate is essentially static, no matter the complexity …
Everything that we do is essentially aimed to please our self. When we are growing up, we start learning that we can rely on no one but our own self. This sets up expectancy as well as inadequacy, hope and consequently ill-will. All of these are detrimental. We get trapped in a cycle of hope …
At some time or the other, we are prone to give credence to consideration about our self. While, this is natural, we seldom pause to verify if what we are thinking is true. What is true? Is the cup in front of me true? If we look closely, we realize that what we assume to …
We have to be wary of prescribing too much for ourselves. That we have a body and a mind is bad enough as it is. If we start laying the groundwork for additional encumbrances, we punish ourselves. It might be seen as too frivolous to say that we ought to give up or negate what …
There is a huge difference between insecurity and uncertainty. Uncertainty is a given and insecurity is both uncertainty and an exclusive focus on ourselves. Uncertainty is never incongruence. It is fuel for learning, even though we have to see it that way. If we are able to dissociate uncertainty from exclusive focus, we succeed in …
The notion that wellbeing is free of pain and suffering is inaccurate. How we sense endlessly changes. There is always the possibility that what might be seen as favorable is sensed as painful. This means that as we negotiate our lives, we ought to give equal credence to pain as well as the absence of …
Somewhere along the path, we might get overcome. The anguish of being becomes unbearable. During such times, we begin to question our place and our purpose. Some suggest that there is none, that we are like automatons, being born, subsisting and then perishing. It is possible they miss one crucial thing about sentience. It is …
Strange as it might sound, an exclusive focus on ourself isn’t the intent, it might actually be the content. This means that any thought about ourself is an exclusive focus, any thought! It is difficult to imagine how one might distance oneself from such a focus. Say, you were walking to board your daily train. …
