Buddha
How to transform society?
I’ve conducted meditation sessions for people. My personal the experience pre and post seeing the same people meditate and the participant’s experience itself makes me feel that everyone must meditate.
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Knowledge and spontaneity
How our mind thinks – we analyze, we compare, we try to create analogies and thus we tend to lose spontaneity. At times our knowledge becomes our hinderence.
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Anand Utsav
I recently attended a course of the Art of living foundation – Anand Utsav. Anand Utsav is a Hindi word (rough translation “festival of bliss”). Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (Guru ji) himself guided the course via webcast. This has been happening for last couple of years in the month of Read more…
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What will people remember you for?
Almost every Sunday, I go for Art of living follow up. Here we do some yoga, pranayams and Sudarshan Kriya. Whenever someone asks me about Art of living and eventually Sudarshan Kriya, I say – “one must do Sudarshan Kriya at least once before dying”. It changes you from within. Read more…
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Societal impact of Interdependent Co-arising
Interdependent co-arising is a very fascinating concept of Buddhism. I could relate to it deeply, in fact inception of this blog website lies in that. We are “social animals” and thus interdependent co-arising is no foreign concept to us. However, off late many of us have become too greedy, self-centric Read more…
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Buddha Purnima
This Buddha Purnima, I thought that I should share a full moon meditation that you can practice instead of reading any content on my blog. Please do spare 20 odd minutes to experience a meditation. The Buddha Purnima day is very special, it is said that Buddha was born, enlightened Read more…
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The observer
After my regular spiritual practice of Art of living’s Yoga, Pranayam and short sudarshan Kriya, I opened my eyes. The birds were chirping, Adviti – my daughter – was playing with my mother. Our drawing room was shining with the morning Sun light. I was sitting on my yoga mat Read more…
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Adviti and genes of generations
As I shared last week, we are blessed with a baby girl – Adviti. Our daughter has just turned 6 months. With her coming in, and our near and dear visiting us, comparison of “who does she look like?” started. Some say she looks like me others say she looks Read more…
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Why-Analysis – Karma
In operations consulting we used to do why-why analysis. It is a method to identify cause of an occurrence. There are other methods also available for doing such analysis. The objective of such different methods is be to find the root cause of some occurrence. Why this happened? Because of Read more…
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Focus
It was a carefree weekend, I woke up as usual in early morning and was brushing my teeth. Chirping of birds, how did I miss it everyday? Today, I heard it clearly and with full attention. The thought came in mind again – I don’t even remember hearing this good Read more…