Detachment is the key

When we were young we used to shake the guava tree so that the ripe guavas would fall down and we would eat them. I also remember a time when someone in my life said: "We should continuously stir the psychology of people.". I asked why then he said "When they are stirred then the …

Reality that haunts us

Reality haunts us. It haunts us in isolation and it haunts us in groups. It creeps through every obstacle we have built to hide ourselves from it. It is scary and ugly. We have deviced so many things to take us away from our reality. We try so much not to be with what is …

Introverts, extroverts and unconscious mind

Within our mind there is certain part which is unconscious and instinctive. Acting upon the influence of this instinctive mind mostly happens automatically. We act upon it with very little conscious awareness. This instinctive mind resembles an advanced form of psychological reflex. It is not as simple as a knee jerk but highly cortical and …

The cycle of blessing and curse

We are both blessed and cursed when we are born in this world. There is nothing which can be only blessing or only curse. There is side to everything. One function of our mind is to overlook one aspect while looking at the other. When it is seeing the blessing it overlooks the curse in …

Weak and strong within me

Within my mind I observe a struggle. A struggle between two ME. The first me is weak and coward. It does not know that. The second is strong and brave. It does not know that either. There are various times in which either of these two me become the commander of my mind body. The …

Real benefit of meditation

Following the breath is so mundane . It is unexciting. Neither it reassures that all our trouble will be gone nor it makes us know all there is to know. I occasionally question myself "Why am I doing it anyway?" What REAL benefit has it given me? I know at every level there are some …

Thoughts are clouds

Looking outside I see clouds Clouds hovering all over sky Looking inside I see thoughts Thoughts controlling all of me  

Nature of mind

One day I was looking at the cover of a mindfulness book lying around my table. The book was comparing mindfulness with training of an elephant. I loved that book. Looking at the book I drifted onto thinking , if my mind is an elephant to be trained, then who am I? Then I remember …