Detaching from a situation while in it

By Guest BlogPosted on October 26, 2016Cat All, IPI, Miscellaneous musings, Psychotherapy and counseling, Uncategorized1 Comment

By Prema Sankar All of us have our issues or disagreements with certain people or situations, which we address as our “problems”. How much so ever we try to run away from these “problems”, they eventually hit us and hit us hard depending on how far we have tried to run away from them.Earlier I… Read More »

Stress and Sadhana

By Guest BlogPosted on October 10, 2016October 12, 2016Cat All, Miscellaneous musings, UncategorizedLeave a comment

By Prema Sankar This is quite a personal journey and I am intending to write it in as detached and generic manner as possible so that I can myself look back and apply it in other situations in life. I have read so many times about the mind+body+soul connection. Since I began my inner journey,… Read More »

7th day of a Vipassana Course

By Guest BlogPosted on September 26, 2016September 27, 2016Cat All, Psychology, Self & Personality, UncategorizedLeave a comment

I have no words to start. Sitting from 2:30-3:30 in addithanna (no-movement) was a revelation today. Probably started on the dot or a minute or so late. I followed the instructions of Guruji to let my awareness travel from head to toe and back. Sometimes sweeping, sometimes slowly, part by part, as he said. I… Read More »

Complete Acceptance

By Guest BlogPosted on September 6, 2016September 6, 2016Cat All, IPI, Miscellaneous musings5 Comments

By Zalina Gamat At the end of the two-semester course that I attended in IPI from September 2015 to April 2016, one of the last tasks that we were assigned was to write appreciation notes to each other. We were each handed a small white folder, with sheets bearing the names of each of our… Read More »

Letting Go & Letting God

By Guest BlogPosted on August 31, 2016Cat UncategorizedLeave a comment

By Prema Sankar First I would like to address God and my inhibition to use the word God. In my day-to-day conversations it is so much easier to use the so-called curse words than to mention God. Instead convenient words are used in more abstract terms like “the universe” or “ the heavens” or “events… Read More »

A reflection on life

By Guest BlogPosted on August 13, 2016August 13, 2016Cat Miscellaneous musings, UncategorizedLeave a comment

Highway - ek selfie aar paar — A Marathi film by Umesh Kulkarni A Reflection on Life by Sakshi Tandon Highway is a film about the journey undertaken by various travellers in separate vehicles on the Mumbai-Pune highway. Each one is in a hurry to reach their destination. This outer journey however turns out to be… Read More »