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What happens to your fist when you open your hand?
by PS Wasu
There’s not much you can do with a closed fist. But you can do a whole lot of things when you open your hand. And doing all those things requires less effort than keeping a fist a fist. Zen does to you what the opening of the hand does to your fist... |
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Goddess Saraswati: rocking the creativity
by Danielle LaPorte
Saraswati, by Pieter Welteverde www.sanatansociety.com
Saraswati is my #1 Goddess. She rules what I dig most. I'm surprised she's not up there with Kali and Aphrodite in mass popularity. Saraswati is regarded as the Goddess of knowledge and the ar... |
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let the child in you live again!
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After a stressful day of daily chores, I finally made some time to do laundry. I rushed towards the laundry shop as the time to close was approaching. I put all my clothes in machine and I sat to wait till my clothes were washed. It was Independenc... |
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Spring is in the air!
by Chitra Jha
This much awaited spring is a time of fulfillment. There is something sacred about this energy. Heavens are poised to inject their magnificence into our land. New sprouting leaves and grasses (which are yet to raise their heads) upraise every local heart. |
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The Guru Within!
by Brahmaprakash Gaur
In 1991, my office had a group of 40 odd female staff members, pursuing spiritual practices. They had the same guru. Bound by this fellowship, they would get together in the office every day during lunch recess to study scriptures and to meditate. Once or twice, I joined their sessions and they did mine. Then the requirements of work took me away from Mumbai. The contact was severed. |
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The art of Self-Realization
by Hans Dholakia
My Grand Master Sri Yukteswar ji would always say, “Learn to behave.” Three simple words are these, but a vast spectrum of meaning, as we can see. Let us understand. |
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Break It And You Pay For It!
by Pallavi Rao
The last few days I was feeling exhausted but I carried on my household duties because I have a house to run and many commitments to honour. In India we teach our daughters that the home revolves around them; women are the sun and our family are the planets. |
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Set No Wake-Up Calls in 2010
by Rachana Sharma
The countdown for the New Year has started. Immature persons are thinking hard to decide on a remarkable New Year resolution which can transform their life in a night and experienced persons like us, who are guilty-ridden about breaking their resolutions every year, are working seriously on the reasons of failure and finding a failure-proof resolution. |
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4 Problem solving tools
by Axee
God helps those who help themselves.
But How?
To reach God: you need to communicate with him.
To communicate, you need to pray as you don’t get to him by any other way.
A prayer bereft of feelings of Love is like...a lake without water.
Lo... |
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time management with the monks
by Danielle LaPorte
One mile south of Georgia O'Keefe's beloved Ghost Ranch in New Mexico, thirteen miles down a cliff-hugging dirt road in the heart of Chama Canyon, you will find Christ In The Desert. The Benedictine Monastery is cloister to about twenty monks. I'd ... |
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Can you blow it all away?
by Danielle LaPorte
This weekend my son and I ended up at a Sand Mandala ceremony guided by Tibetan Monks. I just vaguely remembered that something about monks was going on at the Chinese Gardens, and we just happened to arrive as the ceremony was beginning. And there w... |
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My encounter with a Filipino mystic
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“The mind knows no limitations aside from those it accepts,” says Jaime Licauco, President and Founder of the Inner Mind Development Institute, Manila, Philippines. This, in fact, is the motto of the institute he established in 1988.
The 69... |
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Inhale suffering, exhale compassion
by Danielle LaPorte
I've shopped the mall of meditation since my early twenties. I've tried Vipassna, and guided visualization, and Transcendental Meditation, among others. Vipassna helps empty my mind, but I find it punishing. It's taken me a long time to admit (lest I... |
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The end of my crisis
by Arianna Neri
At the beginning, I felt slightly astonished. Glancing at my life, I realized that it was all gone, in a matter of instants. I thought about it for more than what seemed an endless second and the result wouldn't change.
I lost my job.
Funny how... |
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The "as in the beginning" Buddha rule
by Danielle LaPorte
There is a Buddhist saying:
As in the beginning, so in the middle, so in the end.
...and it's one of my life compasses. It never fails me and it's nearly always proven true. Things often continue how they start. The click, the comfort, the clarity ... |
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The touch of life!
by Rachana Sharma
Last night I searched in Google, typing ‘Prof Daya Krishna’, the name of my most loving teacher, rather a lovely, witty friend with white beard. When I joined the philosophy department in university, he had already retired. I met him as a helper ... |
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You are the centre of the universe
by Danielle LaPorte
The Red Wheelbarrow - William Carlos Williams
so much depends upon
a red wheel barrow
glazed with rain water
beside the white chickens.
So much is because of you. The letters you've written and sent, the touches, the kisses, the... |
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Cancel That Thought!
by Nithya Shanti
A woman enjoyed the practice of baking bread for members of her family. She also made an extra one for a hungry passerby. She kept the extra bread on the window sill, for whosoever would take it away. |
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Do Not Panic!!!
by Axee
Speaking from several experiences as a fighter pilot, I feel even on the ground, in normal life, when you get into a situation that demands calmness and you panic!
Tell yourself... "Do Not Panic."
When in distress this is the very first thoug... |
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10 Simple Ways to Achieve a Great Day!
by D Muralidharan
This is in continuation of my earlier post ‘Stay happy’… I continue to think of how the beginning of the day is so important to set the pace and mood for all that follows; till the day ends… But, most of us are in an awful mood in the precious morning hours. Lets break that jinx, here and now. |
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Big Bang Or Big Hoax?
by Jessica See
Let us take a look at the basis of the evolution theory and let the logical thinking person decide if it is even remotely scientific! The theory postulates that billions of years ago, there was a Big Bang and non-living things over a long period of time became living things. Does that sound logical to you - that masses of unaccountable atoms of gases violently "kissed" each other in a Big Bang and non-living things turned into frogs, princes, princesses, kings and queens. It comes across more like a fairy tale than science! |
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The Guru Within!
by Brahmaprakash Gaur
In 1991, my office had a group of 40 odd female staff members, pursuing spiritual practices. They had the same guru. Bound by this fellowship, they would get together in the office every day during lunch recess to study scriptures and to meditate. Once or twice, I joined their sessions and they did mine. Then the requirements of work took me away from Mumbai. The contact was severed. |
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The art of Self-Realization
by Hans Dholakia
My Grand Master Sri Yukteswar ji would always say, “Learn to behave.” Three simple words are these, but a vast spectrum of meaning, as we can see. Let us understand. |
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True Professional!!
by D Muralidharan
(Thanks to Subroto Bagchi, for bringing “The Professional” to the world, and to my loving son Janardhan for getting me lay hands on “The Professional” last evening)
Mahadeva came to cosmopolitan Bangalore, as his dear mother walked out of ... |
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The Language Of The Soul
by Nithya Shanti
How will you know whether you are moving forward? Well, it is not that difficult - sudden creative flow, universal signs, synchronicity, realisation of abundance, deeper connection with the universe, fulfilment followed by futility, a sense of multiple personalities and willingness to rest long hours - is the closest analytical comparison to graduating from one paradigm and stepping onto the other. |
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Break It And You Pay For It!
by Pallavi Rao
The last few days I was feeling exhausted but I carried on my household duties because I have a house to run and many commitments to honour. In India we teach our daughters that the home revolves around them; women are the sun and our family are the planets. |
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When Ordinary becomes Extraordinary!
by Harvinder Kaur
Often, you want something because of its heart – the core, the very essence and throb of life. That’s the only part you are interested in. When you do get it, finally, you realize it is attached to a body. The ivory you love so much is conn... |
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