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235 days ago
At the Aprtment where I am staying, I came across a free magazine NATURAL AWAKENINGS published from Fairfield, CT. Even at a glance of thismagazine,I was spell bound to observe that really this magazine stood for creating a new world which would live in harmony with all that is created by the Almighty, for, the very motto of this magazine, as it appears on the front cover, reads FEEL GOOD, LIVE SIMPLY, LAUGH MORE. A scholarly article by a Tibetan Buddhist LAMA SURYA DASS calls for unconditinal acceptance to reach contentment n or lives. It adds " Unconditional acceptance is not sttic, but ecstatic, vibrant, dynamically engaged in and connected with reality. The spiritual hero strides fearlessly into life's depths, faingits incessantly undulating waves, without holding back. Unconditionalacceptance is the kind of loveJesusspoke of when he taught us to love our neighbour, and what Buddha meant, when he said that an enemy,adversary orcompetitor can be one's greatest ...
300 days ago
It all started last year around June 2008 ( or is it even earlier? ) when we in India heard that a few investment concerns failed, following their revelation of being sick beyond recovery. Sooner, we heard of bigger banks failing followed by credit crunches, cries of Help! Help! from the very financial institutions that once appeared to be greater than Himalayan Might. The markets were crumbling and the middle class investors losing their entire savings, the multi millionairres not losing much though, still had enoujh to complain and call for interventions from Gsovernment. The situation in American economy was seen spreading throughout the world where we saw with awe one economy after another succumbing to the pressures. In just over nine months, it dawned on everyone thate ? economy of most of the developed nations, if not all, were in dire straits, and needed an intervention unparalleled in the annals of past economic history of any nation. ...
350 days ago
I t suddenly dawns on me this day that we are all, without any exception, sick, sick beyond any remedy or cure. Sick not physically but in our relationship with the rest of mankind whom we are destined to live in this earth. The sickness is related to our attitude to others with everyone of whom we can live peacefully if only we care to do so. But we are adamant, obstinate, clicking to our own domain, sticking to our belief systems. This belief system of ours tells me that the other man is bad. And we are good. And this belief system tells us also that we are to restore that other man from his state of mind and make him believe what we would belief as the right state of mind. And this belief system goads us to adopt means and methods as to anything to achieve what we feel right. Why this state of affairs has crept into almost all of us? Why can't we change our frame of mind to even think for a while that we could be wrong and that the other man could also be ...
372 days ago
For the last several years, i have been talking to several executives of my own organisation about ROLE PLAY. I have equally been listening to various lectures on ROLE PLAY by different management gurus at various levels. All of us who talk on RELATIONSHIPS equally have a word on ROLE. It is the understanding or the lack of it that is cause of all happiness or sorrow in relationships. And, make no mistake, this concept of ROLE PLAY operates not only in your official role, but in your familial as well as social environment also. I should not be mistaken if i stretch this concept to religious beliefs also. What is this ROLE? Every one and each one of us have various jobs during the course of a day. These jobs are essentially duties, functions, obligations, responsibilities as voluntarily taken by ourselves or imposed on us by familial, social or professional environments. Take your professional environment, for example. You are an official at some stage in the ...
583 days ago
It appears to me that the one reason why all the world around is apparently unhappy is that every being that constitutes a part of the world is neither happy with himself or with the ones with whom he interacts. As one introspects, it appears to me that we have chained ourselves, become bound by our own rules, we are so caged by our own actions, that we feel often helpless in getting relieved from situations we have ourselves unconsciously built up unawares in the past. It is therefore necessary that to move on from this present stage of unhappiness all around one must release oneself from the shackles one has built all around oneself. The one question one is to ask oneself is just this: what shall I do to make me happy? Unless one is cleansed of one's own prejudices, past biases of others, one can never hope to come out of this vicious cycle. So let us free ourselves from our past. Begin a new chapter from today, this moment. Begin our lives as if we are born today. And ...
