The Desire to Control

My biggest learning from a Vipassana course was a simple observation about breathing that i had on the 3rd day and understood fully on the 8th day. This learning was extremely powerful as it was experience based and wasn’t a result of any intellectual activity. Vipassana is a meditation technique wherein one concentrates one’s mind inwards…

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Gratitude: Thank you Universe

5 months ago(in December, ’12), i had made a solemn promise to myself, a promise of not applying for any jobs or further studies, which i would have joined way into the future(6 months), just for the heck of having something to fall on post-fellowship. TFI organizes a job fair and helps its fellows with…

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त्याग – Sacrifice

There is a beautiful thunderstorm raging in Delhi right now and its not very different from a similar state in my head. I have been battling for the past few days on the questions around sacrifice or त्याग. As my fellowship is nearing its end, i know the next step that i will take will clearly…

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And then I broke Kajal & Sabiya’s Trust

One of my strongest learning in Khushi so far has been the value of keeping one’s word. I have learnt that a person’s reputation is built only and only by one’s ability to follow up one’s words with action. I had heard this truth before but as they say a truth isn’t a truth unless…

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Trust

Trust begins with self and i guess it only comes when one is at peace with himself i.e. with both the good parts and the bad parts, an acceptance of one’s own being as it is. This feeling of being at peace with one’s actual state of being harbors that trust for one’s self i.e for one’s…

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The entangling hypocrisies

Around 6 months back, i had written a post about the different hypocrisies which reside within a person’s nature and keep revealing themselves from time to time as one strives ahead in their quest of the real self. Observing these in my own nature from time to time intrigues me a lot. It’s very interesting…

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Originally posted on Just A Crazy Dreamer:
I still distinctly remember the day when I was standing in the newly renovated New Delhi station and was busy sulking about the day’s events. Little did I realize of the all important lesson I was about to learn and which would later actually make me thank the…

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