Category: Articles
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You become what you are aware of
When you focus on something, you become unaware of your surroundings. Why is it so? It is said that we are nothing but our consciousness, or the soul which is eternal, and rest is mortal and meant to let go as everyone dies eventually. Also, when we focus on a particular thing, we are conscious…
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The Chaos
Ever since the beginning of our childhood, we have been taught this one thing the most perfectly, and that is to rush. We were caught up in this race of a so-called life. Since that time, we just hope and wish for one thing – ‘let this time too pass’, as if we’re going through…
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Mysticism
“Where am I? Who are these people? Why are they so happy while I am crying”, thought overwhelmingly, a newborn baby looking at his family members. Why there’s so much attachment between an individual and his parents? When you were born, you came as a stranger to this world, and the people (your parents) too…
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Life-Purpose
“In search of the gems they had lost, they lose the gold too.” It so happens that after a mind-opening spiritual experience, the person becomes so engulfed by its notion, so fascinated, that upon losing that knowledge, he forgets the way he used to be prior to that, and, in fact, asks himself several times…
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The Void within
When somebody goes through a heartbreak, they find themselves almost dead from inside; like a walking corpse, that’s something they turn into; like they have transformed into something which just watches things going around and all of which makes no sense to them anymore. This happens because all the good things they were expecting did…
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Think before you act
It’s a weird thing that though in today’s time people believe in God, follow their customs blindly but they so much neglect the law of Karma. Some of them believe in several theories and philosophies such law of attraction, etc., while others don’t, considering it superstitious. But if you observe, the law of Karma, it…
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Mindset
Suppose there’s an achievement that you made. Let it be meditating finally for the extended period of time you had desired. With persistence, you made yourself do this that you didn’t let your awareness waver. This is really a great achievement, but at the same time is hidden and stays unappreciated. Others are unaware of…
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Spirituality: breaking the myth, embracing it
Concentration is at the very core of all kinds of endeavors and success. Dandapani When it comes to leading a spiritual life, ordinary people are often consumed by a notion – ‘It might become a hindrance in my success path’. They have come up with the idea of spirituality, that they consider it to be…
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The Idea
Why is it like that we fall for people who have a great dressing sense or better looks? Why is it so that sometimes we see beautiful looking people in relationship with someone who are not so good looking? What’s the key to achieve an appropriate friend circle and a suitable partner? If these questions…
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True Happiness
The world is struggling in search of success. People of today tend to live more in future than in the present for sake of an earning, while others seem to have been engulfed by the past and hence they are not just depressed, but also anxious. This state of depression cum anxiety makes the person…
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You owe it
Suppose, a man after an enormous amount of striving somehow becomes awake. Now that he has this knowledge, this awareness, he decides to thank each and every individual who has even the smallest of contribution in his awakening. So, first he thinks of his gurus. Secondly, he considers people who helped him in his dark…
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Knowing and Unknowing: A quest for awakening
“Who are you?” asked the Emperor in search of wisdom “I don’t know”, replied Bodhidharma The ancient Chinese philosophy Taoism is mostly about the law of reversed effort: actions of a man are counter productive. When one tries to fall asleep, he cannot but when he stops striving, he falls asleep on his own. When…
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A simple lifestyle
Suppose there’s a Buddhist master, who has a school with a scope of spirituality, that imparts finest education, and is capable of cultivating all kinds of skills in students. The school is producing the perfect human beings, and not just few out of them, but all of them. As the school and its principal gain…
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The philosophy of Forgetting
Zen is not attained by mirror-wiping mediation, but by self-forgetfulness in the existential present of life here and now. We do not ‘come’, we ‘are’. Don’t strive to become, but be. Bruce Lee The society of today’s time is obsessed over gathering more and more of information. News channels, websites, education intuitions, they are all…
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Harnessing the Divine energy
Watts said that you trying to attain an awakening is exactly what prevents you from doing so. And certainly if you’re trying to seize an awakening mind, that means at some point of your life you had already experienced it. That unsurpassable bliss, those miracles you had witnessed or even performed by your own. But…
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Essence of Buddhism
Unlike other religions of the world, Buddhism doesn’t have its particular religious text. Although there are various writing pieces that do guide and enlighten people on the better ways of living, bring about harmony in life and embarking on a spiritual journey. One of such books being ‘The Way of Bodhisattva‘ by Shantideva, a revered…
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Zen Buddhism
Once a man went to a Zen master and asked him to explain the meaning of Zen. The master began to pour a cup of tea. The cup went full, but the master still poured and the cup overflowed. The man couldn’t stand this any longer. “Why are you pouring the tea when the cup…
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Non-attachment
Suppose, a kid sees a chocolate at a grocery store and says to his father “I want this”. To which his father replies “I’ll buy you another one”. A person whom his or her partner leaves by saying “you deserve someone better”. You see, both the cases are absolutely different from one another, but they…
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Oneness, Self-love & Meditation
Another thing that you experience when you reach a higher state of consciousness is that you overcome the illusion under which the entire mankind is living- Separation. Keeping a notion that one is completely separate from the other being. This getting over is often associated with Mysticism. Which is an exotic experience where you feel…
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Love, Life and Meditation
When we talk about spirituality, consciousness, awakening, law of attraction, this and that, there are a lot number of philosophies to come across. Tathagata gave the Eightfold Path, Lao instructed on approaching the Tao, Alan Watts gave a different philosophy. And as a result of that we are all baffled entirely. So here I provide…