1,500 Strangers Got Together to Sing a Leonard Cohen Song Inside an Old Power Plant……. Continue reading
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Pointlessness of Regret
Once, on a mindfulness retreat, I remember our instructor asked us to do one of those odd exercises that are a specialty of meditation teachers. He got us to stand in a circle, then he asked us all to take a step forward. After a few seconds of silence he said, “Now try not to have taken that step.” I had never heard—or more importantly experienced—anything that struck me more powerfully with the pointlessness of certain regrets. Continue reading
Thought for the week – 20th June 2016
“May you have a good friend to keep you out of trouble — and a best friend to help you go looking for it.” – Robert Brault
We can be masters only of those things that we can give
Have you ever thought that we are only the master of what we can give ? This seems paradoxical. Continue reading
Positive framing – converting emotions such as fear or stress into opportunity
Positive psychologists have shown that some people tend to frame the world optimistically, others pessimistically. Optimists often have an edge: in our survey, three-quarters of the respondents who were particularly good at positive framing thought they had the right skills to lead change, while only 15 percent of those who weren’t thought so. Continue reading
Maintaining a Sense of Dignity
Value of Individuals
“But today’s society is characterized by achievement orientation, and consequently it adores people who are successful and happy and, in particular, it adores the young. It virtually ignores the value of all those who are otherwise, and in so doing blurs the decisive difference between being valuable in the sense of dignity and being valuable in the sense of usefulness. Continue reading Thought for the Week 30th May 2016
One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.
– Marty Ruby
How to Still The Mind
“If you try and still the mind,
it will be the mind
trying to still the mind.
Rather become aware
of the mind.
Become aware
of the flow of thoughts. Continue reading
Seeking and Understanding
Seeking is based on some reason, Understanding is without any!
Seeking is with an effort and purpose, Understanding is spontaneous and effortless!
Understanding is absent in Seeking, While the ‘seeker’ is absent in the Understanding!
Seeking consists of seeker, seeking and the sought, While this trinity is utterly absent in the Understanding! Search consists of search, searcher and the searched, Understanding denies the very ‘searcher’! Continue reading
ONE TUSK 