14.12.2018
about reason and coherence and sense they are small dry library shelves to store boring files of memory and rote. how dare they pretend to be the Thing? Read More »
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Work in Progress (2) — Mental Silence
Over the past few years I have realized that self-observation is a tedious process. For most instances there is no magic involved. It is a painstakingly slow and repetitive endeavour. But if done constantly and with conviction it gradually brings about a whole new perspective to life. There is an innate sense of adventure… Read More »
My Toolbox – Part 1 – Inner family system
As promised in my previous blog, here is the next in series on the tools I use for self-observation and of course the ‘how’ of it. So to begin with, I need to answer two simple questions; what does ‘self’ mean to me and how do I differentiate between different parts of my own being… Read More »
Dream-notes that bring the Real close
A few passages on Love, Ananda and the new world by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother For there is, concealed behind individual love, obscured by its ignorant human figure, a mystery which the mind cannot seize, the mystery of the body of the Divine, the secret of a mystic form of the Infinite which we… Read More »
Happily Ever After
The days are turning like pages of a book. The story's called growth, and it stands for: Happily Ever After. Read More »
The Beginning
8 years ago I turned to the discipline of psychology to seek answers to certain fundamental questions which have kept me busy almost all my life. I was looking for the sense of “I” which was not limited to the one that acts but something or someone more who is behind the one that performs.… Read More »
Work in Progress!
Over the past few years, in almost all the Indian Psychology Workshops that we organize here in Pondicherry, there is one particular topic that remains quite a favourite! We call it the preparation of our personalized toolbox. Unlike the normal mechanical toolbox, this particular one contains psychological tools and techniques that we can apply on… Read More »
Presenting mindfulness in a secular society
Recently, on the online forum MIEN (Mindfulness in Education), there was a very interesting discussion about how to present mindfulness in an appropriate manner in secular classrooms. One of the suggestions was to simply offer it as attention training, and leave aside the frequent references to "compassion" and "loving-kindness meditation," and ultimately to leave aside… Read More »
What it really is
He strokes my hair with sunlight and lays his palm before each step, so I may tread. When he whispers in my ear, the ocean dance begins, flowing waves of abundance. My heart is swelling from the pain of fullness and his smell in the air. There is much to say, but tonight I am… Read More »
About oceans
It's settled, its official, the ocean resides in my heart. My heart is its birthplace and it is the home of my heart. They're married together by an inseparable knot. Whether this makes sense, when it got to this, how I reached here, I have no idea. Because not many years have passed since it… Read More »