In our current day-and-age, we worship productivity. We give it so much value as if an ultimate life ideal. So much of our efforts in business is about being more productive. It’s almost synonymous with what defines a good employee or successful human being even. I remember in my earlier days the aspiration to transform…
Perspectives are NOT ‘datapoints’
We’re taught since our early school days — certainly in our colleges — that the more ‘data’ we have, the more informed we are, and the better decisions we make. Many of the past iterations of this project revolved around, or tried to revolve around, the collecting of data of different perspectives. In this age…
Man-Tra
Let’s break down what the Sanksrit word “mantra” means. The syllable “man” means thoughts, and “tra” means release: thought-release. Whenever we recite a mantra, we are engaging in a process of releasing our thoughts, thereby tuning into a Higher Intelligence within us. A mantra can be a word, phrase, sound, rhythm or even breath. Since…
Real Kindness vs. Fake Niceness
Nothing can be as heart melting and soul touching as genuinely kind behavior. When we experience real compassion, our judgment drops, our barriers come down, and we get a glimpse of otherworldly beauty, within our human existence. But sometimes this doesn’t happen. We sometimes don’t trust or let in kindness. We might associate it with…
Ego vs Passion Goals
Ego goals are those which compel us to do whatever it takes to get something from the world. They bring us and those around us a feeling of lack, and reflects low self-worth. Passion goals are those that compel us to do whatever it takes to offer our deepest value with the world, no matter…
Meditation: Simple but not Easy
Meditation is simple. Dirt simple. Painlessly simple to understand. Perhaps it’s the simplest of any “skill” to comprehend. It is two moment-to-moment steps, in lock-step with one another, of 1) remembrance and 2) letting-go. Each tradition, religion, or practice might have a variation of this, or express meditation in different words…but it’s simply this. But……
Respect as a Prerequisite
Of course we often like to have a meaningful discussion with a person of a distinctly different point-of-view. This is in order to learn from their perspective, as well as share facets of our perspective…growing together in the process. However, in our eagerness to share, we clumsily skip over the prerequisite in all human discussion:…
Sleep and Screens : Keeping them Separate.
Cellphone screens…and sleep…don’t seem to mix so well. The depth and quality of rest is not as good. Why? Well… EM radiation from the screens…weakness takes over. The Web of conflicts of the world, stresses of our work, struggles to achieve and prove ourselves online…we’re being programmed. The prospect of spending quality time with our…
Real Work is Inner Work
We often equate work with tangible output and results we see on the outside. But that isn’t the real work. Real work is what’s shifting on the inside. The moment to moment transformation of Consciousness in us. Inner work doesn’t always get validated by the outside. It’s not meant to. In fact, inner work is…
Self-Evident Truth
We twist and torture the Truth that we share, the Truth that we feel. Our political systems. Educational systems. Legal Systems. Business System. Psycho-spiritual systems. These layers are our way of protecting ourselves. Feeling our value. Building our value. And that’s fine. But Truth is actually really simple. Utterly simple. Absolutely simple. It includes everything….
On Criticizing Others
Often we’re tempted to put our mindshare into how others are flawed. We get ourselves wrapped up in how they are foolish, dumb, going astray, making no sense, insecure or simply bad people. And we take it upon ourselves to point that shit out…sometimes to them directly, but often simply among fellow gossip mongers…and feel…
What Really Matters
The number of digits in our bank account…doesn’t really matter. The number of alphabets after our name…doesn’t really matter. The number of facts we can spew, skills we can carry out, scriptures we can recite…doesn’t really matter. The number of awards we won, accomplishments we made, top rankings on our transcript…doesn’t really matter. The number…
Dialog Starts with Common Ground
We sometimes get into dialog with others, hoping that with enough discussion, we’ll be able to work out our differences and reconcile our conflicts. In many situations, dialog works. We do work out our conflicts. And we’re all happier in the process. In other situations, after weeks, months, years or decades, we might find that…
Breath Leads Us
Our breath is not just a way of calming the mind. It actually is a way of leading us through our lives. It shows us where to go, where to uncover, and where to let go. Breath can very well be equated with Higher Intelligence. When we realize that breath is more than just a…
If Someone Can’t Understand Us…
If someone finds us what we express too complicated, we might conclude they aren’t sharp enough to grasp it. Or, on the other hand, we might conclude that we weren’t clear and simple enough in expressing it. The first perspective puts the onus on them. The second perspective puts the onus on us. I’m not…
2020 Presidential Debate…Ugly
We just witnessed arguably the ugliest debate in the history of presidential debates in the US, with some of the most vitriolic insults, accusations and utter contempt for one another I’ve ever seen. What does that indicate about mankind and our advancement as a human species? How come we aren’t able to reconcile the differences…
Arrive Naturally at Simplicity
Simplicity is what we arrive at when we are finished. Truly finished. It is a natural shedding of what is no longer needed for our Spirit to express. There’s nothing more to see. When the desire for simplicity comes, it brings with it a a delightful catharsis of a weight finally off our frame. It…
Skills Temporary; Wisdom Eternal
Many skills, on their own, seem to be temporary. They don’t last forever. They come and go as situations demand. They often get built, and get dropped. This applies to work skills we might have honed, knowledge we might have built, social graces we might have picked up, relationship skills we might have refined. I’ve…
What is the Truth?
We toss the word “Truth” around very casually…but what does it really mean? We know it’s not our “opinion”. We acknowledge our opinions as our biases. But it’s also certainly not the same as “facts”. Facts can seemingly condradict one another, depending on the source, and contingent on our frame of reference. Also, it’s certainly…
Meditation Carries Us
At a certain point, our meditation process carries us. It no longer is an effort we put into it. Rather, the impulse / pulse of the process takes over and subsumes our own investment of energy. While we might be putting in effort into the process of meditation, it’s more like we’re tuning into the…